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Can You Subcontract That? What Other Professional service companies’ Are Doing That You Aren’t… Overhead kills professional service companies. Office space, computer systems, phone or PBX set up costs … oh, yeah, and labor costs (which make…

Scarcity is a technique used by professional services marketers to boost sales. It's not a comprehensive method by itself. All of the other elements of good marketing need to be in place first. It won't sell your service for you, but it will increase your sales by...

Equity Financing to Manage Your Business Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Frank is a great employee in one of the trades – let’s say he is a HVAC guy. After years of working in several companies, Frank finally decides to open his own business, so he cashes out some…

Let’s be honest, there are only three ways to grow your small business. There are tons of variants to those basic three themes, but when it comes right down to it, three is the number.

In our last post, we mentioned the challenge of how partners should potentially split equity in a new business – one created from two other successful ventures that the partners ran independent of one another.

Welcome back – in our last article, we explored how partners should – or could – split equity in a business and the example we used was that one partner brought a half million in assets and the other brought a half million in capital.

Now we’ve spoken a lot about building partnerships to expand the strength and value of our small business, but one question that must always be asked is this one – how can you effectively bring onboard new partners?

Time for a little honesty. Being a business owner can be great. Being an entrepreneur can be great. Building and growing a business from an idea to an income producing entity is one of the truly amazing things that capitalism has created, and it is hard work.