Service Industry Success

The number of businesses that fail is staggering. We have all heard the statistics. But, what are we supposed to do with this knowledge? There isn’t much for us to do unless we know why the businesses failed. This is the fourth of a seven-part series about the ‘Seven Deadly Defects’ that put companies out of business, and which we as business owners should work hard to avoid.

The number of businesses that fail is staggering. We have all heard the statistics. But, what are we supposed to do with this knowledge? There isn’t much for us to do unless we know why the businesses failed. This is the third of a seven-part series about the ‘Seven Deadly Defects’ that put companies out of business, and which we as business owners should work hard to avoid.

The number of businesses that fail is staggering. We have all heard the statistics. But, what are we supposed to do with this knowledge? There isn’t much for us to do unless we know why the businesses failed. This is the second of a seven-part series about the ‘Seven Deadly Defects’ that put companies out of business, and which we as business owners should work hard to avoid.

The number of businesses that fail is staggering. We have all heard the statistics.  But, what are we supposed to do with this knowledge? There isn’t much for us to do unless we know why the businesses failed. This is the first of a seven part series about the ‘Seven Deadly Defects’ that put companies out of business, and which we as business owners should work hard to avoid.

Feeling like our business owns us is one of the most frustrating, overwhelming and stifling feelings we will endure as business owners.  Because of that, we might as well decide to be in this situation for as short a period as possible.

The path out takes us on an uncomfortable journey of facing our fears, and desire for control.  But, this is the only path.

Tune in to learn how to get through it as quickly as possible!

Creating a Succession Plan is not necessarily the most fun project we will take on.  And while creating it, we will have to face some things that we would rather ignore.  But, by postponing this, we are risking losing significant money, and valuable time.

Tune in to see how to figure out your options!

Why should I bother with creating our core values? Well, having them will save you plenty of time, indecision and second guessing, and will also speed up your ability to delegate. And those are just for starters.

Tune in to see what I mean!

How much training is enough? Am I training enough?

These are great questions for business owners to be asking. Sometimes the answer is not what you expect.

Tune in to find out what I mean!

How much money one earns is not something that is often discussed amongst business owners. Similarly, how much one owes in taxes or how we go about paying those taxes is also not generally topics of conversation. And... One of the darkest places a business owner can find themselves is working out of a messy situation with the IRS. This is something to be avoided and not to be taken lightly.

So, what should our strategy be to avoid any tax dilemmas?  Tune in to find out!

Upon entering stage 4, we go from feeling like our business owns us, and that we are never going to have any freedom, to all of a sudden, in a very short period of time having more freedom that we have had since we started our business – maybe in our entire lives!

But, there is still work to be done at the office.  How do we stay engaged?

Tune in to find out!