Strategic Planning

With temperatures around the county nearing the triple digits, the last thing we're thinking about is the holiday season. But even in July, e-commerce expert Damon Schechter advises business owners to stop thinking...

. I’m all for being ambitious and keeping your eyes on the goals you’ve set, but to be fulfilled you’ve got to regularly notice the progress you’ve made. Milestones like these help make...

Expert says there's plenty of money out there if you know where to look.

It is possible to be “strategic” without lighting up a giant neon sign saying you are being strategic.

Summer? Slow? Not for small business events - Don’t miss these great events, conferences and webinars for growing companies this summer and fall.

A Great Quote for Every Business Owner to Read

Listen in to the this candid 20-minute interview with Wall Street Journal Best-selling author David Finkel and two of the newest Maui Advisors, Rob and Patrice Mabary....

Any business with existing customers would immediately profit from instituting formalized referral systems. Here are several potential referral systems you can use in your business. The key is that these are systematic, automatic,...

Nevada and Delaware are popular states for good reason. But most small businesses never see the benefits from incorporating in these states, and end up with a lot more headaches and costs than...

My good friend and guest Maui Advisor Garrett Sutton wrote a GREAT article about asset protection changes that could greatly impact Florida (and with time other state’s) business owners. Take a look at...

I just found this "mini outline" on why business plans matter to you the business owner on my hard drive and thought I’d share it with you.

One of the most environmentally detrimental aspects of doing business in a country as vast as the U.S is the business fleet.

As a serial entrepreneur whose launched, built, scaled and sold several businesses (and had others fail on me too) one thing I've learned is how important it is to learn how to be...

Listen to this 28-minute candid interview between Wall Street Journal Best Selling author, David Finkel and,Linda Pinson, author of Automate your Business Plan and Anatomy of a Business Plan.

Two people you might not think had anything in common, Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote and auto entrepreneur Henry Ford actually shared the same view (albeit centuries apart) on at...

It is natural for anyone to pull back when times are tough or confusing. But for a small business, pulling back can mean you are not ready (or not even there) for the...

Today I wanted to share with you 4 important tips about building wealth independent of your business. Too many business owners get tunnel vision and think about their financial goals and their business...

In today’s blog post I want to share with you 7 very important tips when it comes to intelligently forming partnerships. The spark for this topic was a consulting client of ours—we’ll call...

Too many business owners get trapped inside the very businesses they work so hard to build. If they don’t show up each day, or something happens to them, their businesses die. In this...