How do you increase the value of your business? What do acquiring organizations want to see when they make a decision to buy a business? What are the intangibles that make a business more valuable than the revenue they generate? Can you create the next big thing with your business?…
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How CEOs Can Use Social Media to Increase Sales!
How can a CEO decide if social media is worth their organization’s time? What makes social media such a powerful tool to help you grow you your business? What are successful midmarket organizations doing to stand out from their competitive markets? The biggest challenge I find when talking with executives…
Continue Reading....7 Ways Great Advisors Can Impact Your Business Growth!
What should you expect from your advisors? How do they help you take your business and life to the next level? What experience do they need to ensure your businesses success? I was given an opportunity to spend time last week with an organization’s executive team and several people on…
Continue Reading....Can These Tools Start Increasing Your Social Selling Results?
Last week I talked about how social selling is changing the selling landscape for Strategic and Key Accounts. Today, I share several tools that can help you get more out of the time you’re investing in social selling. I spend 45 minutes a day on social selling activities. It has…
Continue Reading....How Would Hulk Smash Big Data?
Hulk, the biggest, strongest, and greenest superhero, is tasked with helping entrepreneurs get the most out of the Big Data revolution. We caught him between battles and talked about the coming challenge of Big Data and how it’s changing the way the world works. Lucky for us he had changed…
Continue Reading....Serving Leaders Make Someone Else the Hero of the Story!
Here’s a problem leaders face every day. You want to get something done. It will take everyone in your organization to do it. How will you get them pulling in the same direction? You could go around and have a heart-to-heart with each person in the organization. You could explain…
Continue Reading....Does Your Investing Makes the World Go Round?
We talked about spotting and investing in the next big idea earlier this week. I got several calls from friends and colleagues who liked the blog, but asked me if I really thought this was all I needed to pick the next big thing. They asked me specifically if a person…
Continue Reading....Can Agile Thinking Provide Serving Leaders an Edge?
What’s the secret of long term success in your business? How do you thrive no matter what’s happening in the economy? Is there a secret capability that great serving leaders possess? Korn Ferry found the answer in 2011. In a study of successful managers, they discovered that secret capability as learning…
Continue Reading....Leaders, Want Your Most Urgent Questions about Social Media-Answered?
Here’s a question I often hear as a communications consultant. Is it a question you’d ask? Would you like to hear the answer? “My nonprofit organization is on Facebook and Twitter and even Instagram, but we don’t really know why. Everybody’s doing it, I guess. But what can we get…
Continue Reading....What Makes Today’s Most Charitable Entrepreneurs Successful?
I’ve gotten several wonderful notes from people that I’ve worked with in the past sharing their perspectives on what’s coming in 2015 for my best clients and friends. One of the notes came from a long term client who sent me a link to an article that Warren Buffett is…
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