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Where Do We Go From Here? Strategic Planning In the Fog
The yellow bus lights glowed in the dark as my only beacon. I couldn’t see 20 feet in front of me on Highway 99 in the central California valley, but we had to get to Lake Huntington. The four cars … Continue reading →
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If You Are Reading This, You’ve Proved My Point
Last January, I again participated on the planning committee for the 2011 Entertainment Industry Conference for CPAs and attorneys. We agreed on most of the usual topics to be presented at the conference. Then, I suggested social networking. The idea … Continue reading →
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Small Business Promotion Using Social Media–How We Did It
I couldn’t believe it. Well, actually I could, but I didn’t want to. Gregg Towsley of WSI Quality Solutions sat down with me me 18 months ago and showed me that my business’s social profile was dead. In other words, if … Continue reading →
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2010 Small Business Tax Breaks Revisited
It’s always good to practice the basics, like a major league baseball player who may work on his swing by hitting a ball off a tee. So here I am going back to the IRS tax site to remind small business … Continue reading →
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The Tightrope of Employee Tax Classification is Getting Frayed
My grandfather was Alfano the Great. In the 1920′s he walked between 2 eight story buildings with no net. In addition, he walked on his hands, rode a bicycle and did wheelies. All for a few bucks. Obviously, he never … Continue reading →
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Business Vision and Goals: Understand the Target You are Aiming For
In the early 1970s, I watched a Stanford professor choose Jim Plunkett, (Stanford’s star quarterback) to demonstrate perception and the brain. The professor placed a pair of glasses on Jim that caused his vision to be distorted, shifting everything he sees to the right about … Continue reading →
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Good and Bad Aspects of Small-Medium Sized Business Strategies
When I speak of “strategy” to business owners or entertainers, I usually get a blank look. Small and medium-sized businesses usually don’t have a specific business strategies. However, what they don’t realize is that they do have a strategy, formal or … Continue reading →
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Charismatic Business Leaders: What to do afterwards? A Problem to Be Avoided
I can remember back in the late 1970s when only engineers and escentrics operated an apple computer. My neighbor brought me over and tried to explain how the large odd-shaped device worked. MS-DOS was not invented, and my attention span … Continue reading →
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Strategic Thinking: Don’t Confuse Tactics for Strategy
“There’s nothing worse than a sharp picture of a fuzzy concept.” —Ansel Adams “There is nothing more wasteful than becoming highly efficient at doing the wrong thing.” –Peter Drucker Mike Michalowicz’s article The 90-Day Method: A Strategy For Business Growth … Continue reading →
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Business Acumen: Beware of Useless Advice
There are brilliant people that study for years to provide brilliant advice based on solid, empirical evidence. Then, there are others that just talk well. Financing, Outsourcing And 7 Other Tips from an Expertby Shira Levine, touts the advice of … Continue reading →
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