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A lot of Hollywood films and TV shows portray the rich salesperson as the ultimate D-bag. You know the type—fast talking, slimy, full of bad personal habits. But in reality, I have met zero long-term successes in business who were…

What would happen to your life as a business owner/CEO if your company experienced real, exponential growth? I’ve talked about the Revenue Flywheel concept before—meaning that small, incremental improvements in an organization’s sales, marketing, hiring process, platforms, training and other…

How’s your first quarter going? Set to meet or exceed projections? If so, GREAT! If not, read on. Revenue gap is the difference between what you need and what your sales funnel says you’re going to actually bring in for…

Lori Grenier from Shark Tank famously noted that “Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.” I know this to be true from personal experience and from working with a lot of…

It’s a New Year! That means that health clubs are about to get PACKED with people who have resolved to lose weight. Sadly, most of these folks will quit by February and go back to their old couch potato or…

Abundance in your life and business is a wonderful thing. It’s wonderful for you, and it’s wonderful for me. The economy hums, business is good, the kids are taken care of. It’s pretty close to perfect when things are abundant…

The Paycheck Protection Program and its sister programs such as the EIDL were promoted to help keep businesses and their employees afloat for a few months while the Covid pandemic was brought under control. Ironically, that PPP and Médical Texte…

“People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.” – Mark Zuckerberg If you are…

We are fast approaching the one-year mark since our lives were forever changed by a microscopic bug. Many businesses have succumbed, plenty are still hanging on, and a select few are even thriving.  While the Wal-Marts and Amazons of the…

The Sales Funnel concept is increasingly being replaced by a new concept in customer acquisition – the Revenue Flywheel. I know because the term keeps coming up in casual conversation with a few private equity folks I work with, and…