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The Corona Virus for Small Businesses

Consultant Journal

It’s a question on the minds of many entrepreneurs, as Fortune 500 companies announce new protocols for travel, meetings and even use of coffee cups. Think about what’s actually needed for your sales and marketing : Wave or nod instead of shaking hands. Take a look at your cash flow and what a change to sales or staffing could do.

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Don’t Drive (Your Business) Over the Curb

Martinka Consulting

Owners travel a road every day and their road has curbs. It’s tough managing 50 people instead of 15 or handling cash flow at a level beyond what the line of credit allows for. You can’t look at the write-up of any business for sale without seeing the word potential. The wider the road the better. Michael Ovitz.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. It could be evaluated by tracking sales, calculating savings on operational costs, or counting new customer acquisitions. This is typically the second step in the problem-solving process.

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AAA – Not to the Rescue

Martinka Consulting

When it comes time to sell however, they want to demonstrate that the business has more cash flow than the tax returns (and financial statements) show. Similarly, I once saw a deal where it was stated that if the buyer reduced the sales staffs’ commissions from 10% to 8% this adjustment would create more profit.

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Time to Short the US Dollar? Go Long Commodities?

MishTalk

2.50% and geo-political risk and lag of global earnings for S&P-500 companies reduces margin and cash-flow. It’s important to underline that major US investment houses, and certainly every single sales person I talk to, believe US is about to accelerate in growth not slow-down. Safe travels, Steen Jakobsen Short the Dollar?