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Using SWOT Analysis To Improve Your Business: Analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of a business is a well-established tool and although it is a simple concept, business owners often struggle when trying to use it because it is so broad.
How Many Gauges Do You Watch in the Cockpit of Your Business?: As a business grows, the more moving parts it has, and the more difficult it is to keep an eye on everything that is happening.
Operating in a Shoe Box is Profitable: My "shoe box operation" phrase describes the small business owner-manager with the courage and discipline to resist increasing occupancy and other overhead costs before there's sufficient revenue to support an expansion.
SWOT Analysis Is No Magic 8 Ball: A SWOT analysis is an excellent tool for assessing your small business, however it is no magic 8 ball.
Will Your Business Survive Without You?: If you we're unable to tend to your business could it survive without you?
Internal Control: A Preventive Maintenance Program: Every business should have, at some level, an internal control system in place to protect against losses, both intentional and unintentional.
Business Disaster? Won't Happen to Me: As fast as you can say business disaster, your business can go up in smoke. What would you do? Would your business survive?
Business Writing Secrets Vol. 1: One of the most important aspects in the business world is writing. It is the critical process of communication inside a corporation and of course in the B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) trade.
6 Steps To Effective Management During Change: Take the pain out of gain and decrease the upheaval surrounding change by following six common sense steps to effective management.
Chunking the Routine Essentials: Chunking a large project into small parts is a great way to tackle an overwhelming project you keep putting off until a large block of time is available.
Simplicity is a Process: So often we receive advice that success is a result of hard work. Is this a good approach to people struggling to succeed? The phrase "hard work" is a turn-off. Rather, it's less threatening to think of following a process. For instance, consider the task of making something simple. Is it hard work or a process?

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