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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz.

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Research = Opportunity! 8 Lessons From the Some of the World’s Biggest Sports Brands…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

In the last 18 months working with some of the world’s biggest sports brands, I’ve done research that has taught me the importance of market research to build strong brands and grow sales. I’ve put together 8 key lessons that will help you do a better job researching your market so you can make more sales. There’s no order. On it goes.

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How You Can Use Signage To Brand Your Business

Tom Spencer

There are many ways that companies can get the word out, and with all the hype around online and social media marketing it would be easy for companies to overlook how important proper signage can be to the success of a company’s marketing strategy. Sarah is a small business owner, and is currently learning about marketing, using the internet.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

For reference, my first three questions to owners are: Have you worked with a financial advisor to see how much money you need from the sale to support your next great adventure in life (and do you know what your business is worth – not just what you want for it)? What will you be doing after the sale? Letter of Intent.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. “‘Why us?

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The Value of the Owner to the Business’s Value

Martinka Consulting

This may make sense for a micro-business (a lot of franchises are good examples of where a non-owner manager can run it just fine), but do you really think this applies to a sizable small business? Say one with $5-7 million in sales and 10-15% profit? Growth of sales and profits every year during the recession.