How do you know if your business is healthy? Is it enough to generate adequate earnings, or are their additional measures that can help a business owner improve the performance of their firm and outstrip competitors? This is the first in a series of blogs on...
Automated calendaring – how does it work for you? Don’t you think that one of the best things about web sites these days is the automated calendaring function? Isn’t it so much simpler to be able to choose and schedule appointments that fit our calendar and...
I know it happens to all of us, but it can be very frustrating when you want to do business with a vendor, they say they are eager to work together with you, and then they do not follow up as promised. There is a P&C...
Patience and persistence go hand in hand on the road to insanity, or so we are told. While Einstein apparently denied it, the following quote is attributed to the famous genius. “The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting the...
Peter Busacca from Washington BBI (Hey! i know that guy!) conducted a Lunch and Learn Workshop for the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce. He taught small business owners the use and application of key performance indicators and financial ratio analysis to grow revenue, profits and...
Recently Scott Michelson conducted an excellent workshop on marketing for the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce (snovalley.org). This is topical excerpt - Introduction. The workshop was part of a series hosted by the City of Snoqualmie in conjunction with Washington BBI (washingtonbbi.com), Consultants' Coffee Klatsch, and...
Scott Michelson from SDM Marketing recently provided a Lunch & Learn Workshop on Marketing Planning. In conjunction with the Consultants' Coffee Klatsch, Washington BBI, the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Snoqualmie, Mr. Michelson helped business owners to prepare their marketing plan for...
Wondering what a Business Health Assessment is? Could a BHA help your firm? A Business Health Assessment provides a quantitative analysis of a firm's financials and benchmarks your performance against other, similar firms. This is done by NAICS code and relative revenue size to give a...
Sunil Dewan is among the best franchise consultants and offers extensive experience taking businesses national and international. So what does a guy like that think of Washington BBI and Peter Busacca?...
#5 of 11 in the Maximizing Business Value series. You can do an amazing job of preparing your business for eventual sale if you understand the fundamentals of the buyer's point of view. What do buyers look for? Why they choose one business over another? What...