Business Advice

Business owners who want to invest their profit often come to me for advice as to where it should go. Perhaps you can relate – and remember, this isn’t a sales pitch. It’s an investment lesson that every business owner needs, and lots of people tell me they wished they’d …

As a veteran banker and former business coach of over 30 years I have had a successful career by positioning myself as a “Banking Physician” with my current customers and prospective customers. Many of my business clients and prospects suffer from the “illness” of weak cash flow and usually believe …

Marketing your business to the community has never been easy. Just two decades ago there were basically three choices; print, radio or television. Essentially all three of these remain today, although print media has seen considerable decline, radio and television have expanded their stations and channels. Now we’re in the …

By Eugene E. Valdez One of the most popular or “trendy” topics floating around today in my world of privately owned businesses and entrepreneurial CEOs, is the topic of selling one’s business as an exit strategy and the concurrent subject of future business valuation to determine the selling price. According …

In our years of doing marketing, branding, web design, and search engine optimization we have seen quite a few major shifts in the way that consumers interact with brands. Of all of these changes very few that have impacted businesses as much as the way that prospective clients find what …

Recently I received the following email from a client facing a tough issue with an employee who was put on notice for poor performance. Is too much expected of us as CEOs? We are expected to know it all, be the best, never make a mistake, and be perfect in …