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Cash Flow - a subject close to everyone's heart....

25 September, 2007

Monday's Wall Street Journal (9/24/07) has an article in the 'Small Business Link' (B4) titled
"Three Approaches to Reining in Customer Debt." by Simona Covel. The three approaches discussed include:

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Avoid steering like a drunken sailor... A metaphor for running a business

23 September, 2007

When I was a young boy, my dad used to take our family to a small reservoir in California, called Lake Woollomes, to go sailing. We had an old 17 foot home-made (not by us) sailboat made of steel. Definitely not the lightest hull on the water...

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The Power of Congruence

21 September, 2007

I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation to a group of business owners on "Simple, Effective (though not always easy) Guidelines for Building and Running Your Business Successfully" (an embarrassingly long title). This high-level overview of key concepts ranged from strategy and marketing to operations, technology and finance.

One of the points I made was the importance of having an established, positive brand image - and the power and value of 'congruence' of that brand image in all aspects of your business. I use the word congruence because I like it - and because I could not find it on any list of "annoying business buzz-words or phrases."

What congruence really comes down to is:

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Library content moved to my blog

9 September, 2007

My Blog seems like a better place to share books that I consider noteworthy... So I am posting the books that I had already listed on my Library page (which has been replaced by Testimonials).

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