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Is your superior Product falling down a hole?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

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It has long been said “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”.  That may have been true a hundred plus years ago, but these days better doesn’t guarantee that your superior product […]

What to be when you grow up?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I had a great conversation the other day with one of my BANG clients about the need to get some systems in place to help automate processes.  It’s a pretty common problem faced by a lot of small business owners, but before you can really make a call on what the right solution is, you […]

A Review of the self proclaimed World’s Greatest Plumber

Friday, June 6th, 2008

photo by laffy4k 
The weather here in Kansas City can run to extremes, and we’ve seen the rainy, stormy extreme here in the last couple of weeks.  As I’m sure many others have been doing, I ended up needing a plumber…quickly and we luckily found a quality business to help us.
Water can be a real mess
I’ve […]

Do you successfully fail?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I’ve had a few conversations recently about failure and it got me to thinking about the nature of failure and the small business owner.
The reality is that if you’re human, you are going to fail. 
Unfortunately failure has an undeserved bad reputation and most people either want to avoid it like the plague or […]

How to escape from your business owning you - the first steps

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

picture by Fort Photo 
Having your own business, being the entrepreneur conjures up imagery of independence, freedom, wide open spaces and a path to prosperity.
If that’s the case, how come I keep talking to business owners that are feeling trapped, closed in and overwhelmed with all the stuff they have to do?  They spend most of […]

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