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Operations
What Your Team Needs to Understand About Purchase Orders
There are two things that really irk me: Being tricked and making mistakes. My penchant for purchase orders started when I was tricked because I made a mistake.
Early in my career, our company PO system was six digits (the date) and buyer initials (TS). An industrial supply company had the ac extension cables we wanted to use and the sales rep pried an order out of me on the phone.
Operations
How to Hire a Better Freelancer
There is a direct correlation between companies that are suspicious of freelancers and stagnant growth. You may be happy with how large your company has become, but have you noticed that your profits are shrinking every year?
Marketing
Why You Don’t Want Your Business to Be Unique
Whenever a business owner begins our pre-consulting conversation with, “Well, we’re pretty unique,” I know that I am going to be dealing with one of the following:
A business that evolved from an owner-operator to employees taking on responsibilities without any coordinated plan or,
Multiple partners or family members in key jobs with unclear management structure or,
A business feels that it is "too busy" to work on things that it knows are important.
Operations
Five No-Brainer Operational Investments
Business owners often contact me when they are on the verge of doing something drastic. They are usually frustrated with themselves or their team and have tried everything they know how to do.
In most cases, they need to try again. Only this time, the team needs to go back to the fundamentals. You can hire me, but here's what I am going to do first...
Management
Five Habits That Will Recession-Proof Your Business
No one is really talking about it yet outside of the financial planning circles, but it is not a secret: There is a Recession coming and it is going to sting because we have had it so good for so long!
How soon? How big? How long?
Operations
How I Learned to Love Sub-Rentals
For most production rental companies, sub-rentals represent some sort of failure. I look at the issue differently. Sub-rentals are a sign of success. I love everything about them. They signal profit and opportunity - two things that every business owner should strive for.
Learn to love sub-rentals and all they represent.