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Business Startups – What You Need to Succeed

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Business Startups – What You Need to Succeed

Business startups are just that – business startups

There are multitudes of business startups and you want to join the fray.  You have a great product or service and you can’t wait to make your first sale.  Yep – that’s you.  This is what America is all about.  You can make your own way.  Names like Ford, Carnegie, and Jobs are as recognized as America’s former presidents.  Ideas born in garages are parlayed into vast empires burgeoning with promise.

The challenge is ...

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Business Process Consulting: Making Progress

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Business Process Consulting: Making Progress

Business process consulting: making progress.

This is the 4th article in the “Business Process Consulting” series published by Blue Elevator™.  The prior articles are as follows:

1) Business Process Consulting: A Primer

2) Business Process Consulting: Predicting Owner Success

3) Business Process Consulting: Getting Started

In this article, we will outline the process for making progress.  Ultimately, after the planning, it’s time ...

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Business Process Consulting: Getting Started

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Business Process Consulting: Getting Started

Business process consulting: getting started.

Welcome to the next installment of the “Business Process Consulting” series by Blue Elevator™.  We are offering this series to both existing and future clients.  The precursors to this article are as follows: Business Process Consulting: A Primer and Business Process Consulting: Predicting Owner Success.

You may be someone who is planning to start a business or someone that is well under way.  In ...

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Business Process Consulting: Predicting Owner Success

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Business Process Consulting: Predicting Owner Success

Business process consulting – the key to entrepreneurial success.

I was an auditor for Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).  Back in the late 80’s, I witnessed the world’s largest “Big 8” firms dramatically expand their business model to include business process consulting.  Traditionally, these firms focused on the staples of their business: audit and tax.  These firms recognized the need to pursue business process consulting to their traditional lines of business.  You see, the staples of their business focused on “history.”  ...

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Business Process Consulting: A Primer

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Business Process Consulting: A Primer

The smart business owner will use business process consulting to maximize business success.

To create fire, everyone knows you need a spark, a fuel source, and oxygen.  If any of these things are not present, you don’t have fire.  In business, you also need three things: a worthwhile venture, a solid plan, and entrepreneurial energy.  If any of these are not present, you don’t have fire!  Business process consulting helps you make fire!

Business process consulting will help determine whether your venture ...

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Scale Your Business: a Success Principle

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Scale Your Business: a Success Principle

The key to running a successful business (and the key to creating a “legacy business”) is learning what it means to scale your business.

Whether you are thinking about taking a trip aboard The U.S.S. Entrepreneur, or you have already set sail, we are all hoping to dock in Port Success.  No one starts out hoping to encounter a typhoon or ride through a tsunami.  Most business owners don’t start out with the following mission statement:

“I will start a ...

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Is All Money Created Equal?

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Is All Money Created Equal?

Is All Money Created Equal?

Is all money created equal?  If you think money is money – think again.  Whether for personal reasons or for your business, do your best to establish some level of a cash reserve.  Call it a “rainy day” fund, a reserve account, etc.  Something is better than nothing – and more is better than less.

Establishing A Cash Reserve – Why?

Into every life (or in every business), a little rain must fall.  You will appreciate establishing a ...

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Equilibrium or Not?

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Equilibrium or Not?

Equilibrium or Not?

Have you ever noticed that all of us tend to want to find that comfortable little place I will call equilibrium point.  It’s that little “pocket” where things feel just right.  Whether it’s your exercise routine (or lack thereof), your relationships, your diet, or the business you manage, we tend to find ourselves stuck in these spaces in life that we find down right comfortable.  The problem is, over time, those equilibrium points tend to get ...

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