You know, it seems like everyone is trying to get a piece of the small business income stream. I don’t know how it is for you but everyday there are people knocking on the door …

Are you looking to unlock the power of turn over and gross margin?
If you are, then you are like the majority of us small business owners. When you are buying and selling merchandise, turn over …

This month I’ve launched the Cash Flow Management Program. It’s a spreadsheet based program to track the movement of cash through your business. The program can be used as a planning tool, as a …

It’s preseason buying time again. Time to buy for spring and summer of 2011. What are people going want to buy next year? That is the question we are asking ourselves. What are you going …

Haven’t written much for the last few weeks, but will I get back on schedule soon. My excuse: a two week trip to Beijing, China. The other two weeks has been reentry into our time …

Finding one or two critical numbers that you can use to guide your business and involve the largest amount of your staff will result in solid rewards.  Last week we touched on using Return on …

Taking off from last weeks post, did you figure out what your critical number might be? Let’s look at what the information that we gathered about the business and narrow down what Critical Number will …

Every business has a critical number. It is the one number that is the key indicator of where your business is going. It is the number that can make or break the business. It can …

It is inventory time for Lee’s Adventure Sports.   Since our busiest time of year is in the winter we decided a long time ago that our fiscal year end would be in March. So here …

We looked at building trust with your customers in the last post.  In that post, we examined actions that you and your employees can do to build trust with each customer. Taking care of each …