How to Create a Vision Statement That Inspires

How to Create a Vision Statement That Inspires

Several years ago, I created a video on, “The Difference Between Mission and Vision,” that is the number one video on the subject (with several hundreds of thousands of views). Because of the number of people watching that video, someone asked if I had any more video...
5 Huge Strategic Planning Mistakes Virtually Every Business Makes

5 Huge Strategic Planning Mistakes Virtually Every Business Makes

As a business owner, entrepreneur, CEO, Founder/Co-Founder you know that one of your most important tasks every year is to create a “strategic plan.” Unfortunately, the vast majority of “strategic plans” aren’t very strategic, nor do they drive significant growth....
How to Create a 100-Day Plan (and Crush the End of the Year)

How to Create a 100-Day Plan (and Crush the End of the Year)

As you approach the end of this year, how are you approaching it? If you’re like most business owners/entrepreneurs, you’re approaching it from one of three options. We’re so far behind, we might as well give up and get ready for next year We’re so far ahead of our...
How to Drive Significant Growth by Tweaking Your Business Model

How to Drive Significant Growth by Tweaking Your Business Model

Do you want to grow your business significantly this year? If so, what’s your plan for making that happen? If you’re like most business owners/entrepreneurs, you probably don’t have much of a plan other than to do more of what you’ve been doing. However, you know from...
What To Do If Your Business Is Struggling

What To Do If Your Business Is Struggling

When your business is struggling, what do you do? Do you look for something unique that might be the cause? Something “out there” (meaning something outside of your business)? Something new? Something internal? Something nefarious? If you’re like most business owners...
How To Break Through Your Current Growth Barriers

How To Break Through Your Current Growth Barriers

Do you feel stuck right now? Are you struggling to break through a growth barrier? Are you frustrated that you’ve tried a number of tactics to grow your business and “nothing” seems to be working the way you think it should? If you are, you’re normal. Virtually all...
The 5 Keys to Accelerating Your Scaling Efforts

The 5 Keys to Accelerating Your Scaling Efforts

If you’ve been trying to scale your business (or at least trying to grow it faster), chances are you’ve been frustrated that some businesses seem to grow much faster than yours. The question is, “Why?” Last week, I talked about the three keys to scaling your business...
The 3 Keys to Scaling Your Business

The 3 Keys to Scaling Your Business

As a business owner/entrepreneur, there are few things you probably want more for your business than rapid growth (i.e. to scale your business). Unfortunately, most businesses never experience that. In fact, eighty percent of businesses are either plateaued or in...
If Your Business Isn’t Scalable, It’s Not a Real Business

If Your Business Isn’t Scalable, It’s Not a Real Business

Now, before you react too negatively too quickly to that statement, hang with me for a moment. My full statement would be, If your business isn’t scalable, you don’t have a real business, you have an incorporated career (or another way to put it would be “you...