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Are You Using CIP to Grow Your Business? Why Not?
At Singapore Changi Airport for a fee available to all is the “Commercially Important Person,” or CIP experience.At its highest "Jetside" level, as they exit their planes traveling CIPs have a...
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Change this Habit & Watch Sales Soar
Last week, I wrote about the “Commercially Important People, the "CIPs," in all of our business lives, and of the importance of being very clear as to who they are (and are not!), and to then connect...
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Opportunity & Danger on February 1st
February 1st is a great day to look at the various start-of-year economic and business predictions, and at our business resolutions and plans to profit from them. Famously, the Chinese word for...
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Business Lessons From The Greatest Super Bowl Of All Time
As a lifelong New England Patriots fan, Sunday's Super Bowl was a sport-watching roller coaster like none other. In addition to being an awesome inspirational adrenalin rush from the desperate...
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How "Frankensteining" Can Reinvent Your Business
This past Saturday night me and my nine and ten year old sons went to see the new Lego Batman movie.I would like to say that they begged me to take them, but it was really the other way around. Because...
View ArticleHere's Why NOT to Trust Your Business Gut
According to statistics from BizBuySell, less than 1 out of 5 of businesses marketed for sale are able to find a buyer and to consummate a successful transaction. Even this depressing statistic vastly...
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What Do You and Elon Musk Have in Common?
This past week, I had a pair of experiences that painted in inspirational relief the power of innovation to change the world for the better.The first was first reading the cover article of the most...
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How Much Could Your Business Be Worth? [Webinar Invitation]
I recently shared the depressing statistic on how less than 1 out of 5 companies marketed for sale are able to find a buyer and to consummate a successful sale transaction. And how even this...
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It's March 1st, Five Ways to Profit from Today's Frothy Markets
Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 21,068, up 15% since Election Day, with since that time more than $3 trillion in new investment wealth having been created. This rally has been both...
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What Do Top Athletes and Top Executives Have in Common?
Businesspeople, of course, love sports. This is evident in so many ways.From the vast sums spent by companies on sports advertising, sponsorships, luxury suites, etc., and more to the point from the...
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Learn How Aravinda Korala Built One of the World's Great Software Companies...
I am very excited to have Mr. Aravinda Korala, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KAL Software, join us for the March edition of our Growthink Innovators video conference series.Mr. Korala started...
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Is Your Business One of the Chosen Few?
Is your business healthy and interesting enough to attract an investor and / or buyer to take a “leap of faith" on it?As in funding / buying it at a price well beyond what its historic “proof” -...
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Times Are Good, What is Your Business Doing About It?
Try these latest measures of business and consumer confidence:Last week, the National Association of Manufacturers released its Manufacturer’s’ Outlook Survey, showing 93 percent of manufacturers feel...
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Tesla Worth More than GM? Why Your Business Should Care
Earlier this week Tesla became America's most valuable car maker, with a market capitalization at Monday’s close of $50.9 billion, surpassing that of General Motors for the first time. Last year, Tesla...
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How "Frankensteining" Can Reinvent Your Business
This past Saturday night me and my nine and ten year old sons went to see the new Lego Batman movie.I would like to say that they begged me to take them, but it was really the other way around. Because...
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The Fall of American Retail: Don’t Let This Happen to Your Business
The retail industry's woes have crossed the tipping point...Already in 2017, we’ve seen these store closing announcements:JCPenney (138 stores to be shuttered), Radio Shack (552 stores), Payless Shoes...
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NASDAQ 6,000 and Your Business
Yesterday, the NASDAQ crossed the 6,000 mark, its first breakthrough "round number" since 2000 when the widely followed technology index reached 5,000 for the first time.For sure, fueling the index's...
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The Economy is Growing at 4.3%. How About Your Business?
Did you hear Monday's exciting news?That the US GDP is forecast to grow 4.3% this quarter.Unfortunately, most businesses won’t realize this fast growth in Q2.Why?Because for too many companies their...
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What to Do When You’re At a Business Crossroads
Last week I sat down with the owner of a multi-million dollar, profitable information services company and discussed his business growth and exit plan.For him, it was the “best of times” in many ways....
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Put me in Coach!
My sons Teddy and Jay Jay are sports crazed 9 and 10 year old boys and so springtime means only one thing to them - Little League Baseball.And a blessing in my life over the years has been coaching...
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