Posts Tagged 'engagement'

Preferred Provider Network

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Preferred Provider Network

The Blue Elevator™ Group – Preferred Provider Network

We’d like to consider promoting you!

Do you consider yourself one the best professionals in your field?

If so, we invite you to consider pursuing a Membership in the Blue Elevator™ Preferred Provider Network. 

Background

Since 2012, Blue Elevator™ has been providing our clients the very best in custom, collaborative, and actionable business advisory.

And, in order to meet the needs of our clients, we need to identify only the very best business providers.

Here’s why:

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TOMA

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TOMA

TOMA

Toma.  Maybe you’ve heard this term before.  Maybe you haven’t.

Actually, I had a friend in high school named Toma.  Toma had a souped-up Dodge Charger, which was a spitting image of The General Lee.  If you’re young, that might not ring a bell.  The General Lee was the car Bo and Luke Duke drove on the show The Dukes of Hazzard.  Toma’s Dodge even came complete with the horn that played a short clip of the tune Dixie.

Toma didn’t drive ...

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Baseball and Business

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Baseball and Business

Baseball and Business

If I hit the rewind button, I am back in Little League (actually, Pony League).  And no, not my Little League years, but my son’s.  My son loved baseball.  Everything about it.  And in baseball, you get to bat.  And when you bat, you get to hit home runs – if you’re lucky.

Or is it? Luck, that is.

Hitting home runs isn’t so much about strength as it is about technique.  That is, proper hitting mechanics will trump brute ...

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The Problem with Self Reflection

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The Problem with Self Reflection

Dedication

This article is dedicated to all present and future clients of Blue Elevator™.  Business is a tough sport.  And sparingly, there are few courageous enough to embark on the ongoing process of rigorous business advisory.  You have taken the road less traveled by.  This article is dedicated to you.

The Problem With Self Reflection

There is a problem with self reflection.  The very exercise itself is almost guaranteed to reveal an opportunity to improve.

Why the Trouble?

Reflecting back on the past several years, ...

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Problem Solving in Business

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Problem Solving in Business

Problem Solving in Business

One of my first real jobs was serving as a product merchandiser for Knudsen Dairies here in Southern California.  This would be a summer job after graduating from high school before starting my freshman year as a business student at Cal State University, Fullerton.

And, since my duties would involve daily driving to any number of grocery stores, I would need a reliable vehicle to get from place to place.  And, since my high school whip was a ...

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Becoming Top of Mind – a Case Study

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Becoming Top of Mind – a Case Study

Becoming Top of Mind

Rick wasn’t just another smart computer guy.  He is a really smart computer guy.  It’s just that only some people knew it.

Rick has experience spanning decades. He was and is the “go to” guy for large municipalities that need his help establishing and maintaining extensive computer networks.

But, with a heart as big as Texas, and computer knowledge out the wazoo, he wanted more.  He wanted to help more people.  He wanted to focus on helping ...

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It’s Not So Taxing to Scale your Business – a Case Study

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It’s Not So Taxing to Scale your Business – a Case Study

It’s not so taxing to scale your business

Debra’s business had grown over the years.  Everyone and every business reaches a point of diminishing returns.  In business, increased activity can become a plateau.  This same plateau often results in an eventual decline.

The conundrum

With a burgeoning tax practice, Debra (the Founder of RD Tax Service) was maxed out.  You see, when you provide great service, it is natural for people to refer to you.  Clients would refer additional clients.  Those clients would ...

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Owner-itis

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Owner-itis

Owner-itis

Owner-itis has afflicted many entrepreneurs in their time.  It strikes young and old alike and can occur at anytime.  It can also affect both rookies and business veterans.  The malady is rarely solved without the help of a skilled and trusted business advisor.  The reason?  Whereas its symptoms are easy to diagnose, it is rarely associated with the systemic problem that causes it.

It is true that many who have the disease don’t really know that they have it.  However, once ...

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Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator ™

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Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator ™

Three Reasons for Engaging Blue Elevator™

At Blue Elevator™, we maintain the bias that no one can truly see themselves.

Here are the three reasons you should consider engaging Blue Elevator™:

  1. Left unattended, your business could be headed towards a plateau and then, an eventual decline.  This is the essence of life.
  2. To help avoid this plateau, it is imperative that you affect innovative change.
  3. To help create innovative change, and because it’s hard to see ourselves, it is important that you obtain skilled ...
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Ready to Engage

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Ready to Engage

Ready to Engage?

In a preceding article, Business Consulting – Then and Now, we made the case for cutting-edge business advisory.  We finished with the question: Are you ready to engage?  Generally speaking, the answer is usually “Yes!”

  1. “Yes, let’s go!”
  2. “Yes, I would like to, but … things are slow right now and I need to close a few more deals so I can build some cash to start work.”
  3. “Yes, I would like to, but ...
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