Articles on: Small Business Strategy

5 (and only 5) ways to Impact Your Profits

How do you make money in your business? I’m not talking about top line sales kind of money, I’m talking about the money that ends up all the way down at the bottom line – your net profits. This came up in a great discussion at last week’s Business Book Review on the book Ownership Thinking […]

3 Things Your Business Can Learn from Seinfeld’s ‘Soup Nazi’

Sometimes when you channel surf late at night you get lucky…and you run across a great Seinfeld rerun. Last night I happened to catch ‘The Soup Nazi’ episode – which if you happen to be one of the small number of people who hasn’t seen it, is about an amazing new soup restaurant that’s opened […]

Could your business be reinvented?

There was a little secret sauce released in an interview this past week that reaffirmed that any business can be reinvented.   And based on this example, business age and size has little to do with it.   It was much more about having vision and creating a plan of where they wanted to go and then […]

What if your business was huge? Try this test…

If you talk to most business owners about growth in the next year they will tell you they’re expecting 10%, maybe 20% growth over last year.  And for a business that’s been around for a while, that’s a pretty reasonable target to shoot for. The problem with a 10% target in terms of business strategy […]

6 attributes to build a business and not a job

This past week I had the opportunity to tour a new dealership location.  It was a bit of a reunion as I had not seen the President or his General Manager in over 7 years.   And though our visit was pretty brief, I was reminded of the hard work it takes to build a […]

A Powerful Restaurant “Weak” Challenge for Your Business

Last year during Restaurant Week, in order to get you thinking about your own level of customer service, we wrote a blog post challenging you to think about the “experience” vs. “the product” as you made you made your way to your favorite eating establishments.    The idea is that the overall dining experience weighs heavily […]