One of my favorite quotes and one that is especially relevant as we kick off 2023. This is the time for New Year’s resolutions and goals of all kinds, both professional and business. How can you achieve them with the greatest success?
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Happy holidays! This is one of my favorite times a year. It's the time for joy, gratitude, love and appreciation.
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Hopefully you’ve been busy closing sales, but this is a reminder to take a moment and truly close out your year. It’s December 20th and that means 11 days until we toast to the new year ahead. So here are 11 things to do before you put on your party hat.
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It's a busy time of year and there is a lot to do. How do you manage your energy to get the right things done?
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A client told me many years ago when I was developing my first ever website and I felt extremely vulnerable, “Ivy, it’s not permanent. You can always change it.” Change. Growth.
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Are you ready to scale your team? If so, here are a few tips for hiring and training your team.
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Gratitude. As we enter Thanksgiving week, for those who celebrate, it’s a time for gratitude and giving thanks.
A big part of growing your business is sales. Some people love sales and find it easy. Others, not so much. I found it hard at first.
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When the economy is unstable, as it might feel like right now, businesses (and yet to be businesses) have to make choices.
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What do you fear when it comes to expanding your company, your business, your mind, and the goals you are stretching for?
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For the final installment in our mergers and acquisitions theme, I wanted to pull in some personal experience and share five things I did before I merged my printing company with another that really helped solidify our relationship and give me the confidence to make such a huge move. These same things are what I discuss with my own clients in their mergers.
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When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, there is a lot going on right now. Perhaps you've considered it for your own company. One thing is for sure...timing is everything. To help you know if the time is right for you, I've put together a few helpful tips.
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Mergers and acquisitions is the theme this month and this week I want to talk about the personal relationships within your business relationships that make a big difference. Read more.
It seems to be the season of mergers and acquisitions. In harmony with that, I have three tips on what to look for when you're merging, acquiring, or selling.
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As we close out the series this month focused on scaling your business, remember these three elements.
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A big part of scaling your organization is scaling a team. Is it wise to wait until you actually need the support to hire or should you hire before you need it? I like to reverse engineer it. Think about who you can hire that would be an asset to scale. Put your systems in place before you hire. Keep in mind that once you hire it can take 3 to 6 months to get your new team member up to speed. Finally, ask yourself the two questions I mention in the video as you prepare to scale your business.
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The entire month of September we are going to focus on the components of scaling a business.
You might think growing and expanding your business is the same as scaling, but there is one key difference. When you are growing a business, you are also putting out a lot of money. You are hiring, training, buying equipment and software, adding new locations, creating marketing material, etc.
When you are scaling a business, the revenue is coming in at a lot faster pace than the expenses are going out. You are playing in a new field.
To scale is to bring in a higher revenue, with strategically investing, yet not increasing your overhead, as much as when you are in the early stages of growth.
Why do you want to scale?
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Back to school means that "September feeling" for me. What does that mean for business? For me it means thinking about what will be accomplished for the rest of the year. It's a great time to focus on sales development and a key to that is networking. What are the keys to successful networking? Optimizing where you network, following up, and following through. What are you doing to set yourself up for success for the rest of this year and into the next?
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The lesson today is about the power of your CALENDAR and PRODUCTIVITY. Yes, this would have helped me immensely in remembering to pack and take the milk.
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Summer is a great time to get in last days of vacation and getting the kids ready to go back to school. When we are ready to jump back in, what should we focus on? Visions and actions, long-term goals, and what we want to accomplish by the end of the year should come first. Then identify the actions steps from that they will support us in getting reaching those goals and implementing the vision.
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