Keep Your Eye on Selling

Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt What have you done for your customers lately? As your business picks up momentum, it also picks up problems and you get further away from your customers. If sales drop, you’re in trouble. We always see a fall-off in sales and cash flow when…

Funding Your Business – Greg Writer – Business Black Belt Podcast

Priorities to prepare for investors Greg Writer, founder and CEO of the Angel Network. Greg has over 31 years experience in corporate finance, capital formation. At 21, he was the youngest owner / operator of a full service investment banking firm in the history of the US — directly involved in over $100 million in…

Managing Creative Interference… Business Builder or Business Killer?

Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt Never give an order that can be understood. Always give an order that can never be misunderstood. ~ Douglas MacArthur, W.W.II General Why can’t people follow directions? Your clients and boss are your customers — listening to them and giving them exactly what they…

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Let People Tell You What’s Wrong…
Before They Tell Everyone Else!

Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt   “The one who needs to know the most, is often the last to find out.”   You must create a connection with your customer grapevine, otherwise you’ll never know trouble is brewing in enough time to deal with it inexpensively. Some study concluded…