A fair number of clients ask me to help them cut costs as a means to improve profitability. I am happy to help them. But my help comes with a warning. In nine years as a small business consultant, I have rarely found cost cutting...
A lot of business owners and budding entrepreneurs ask me why they should have a business plan. They complain that the bank wants one to get a loan and doing one is a lot of work. Of course, for a new business, a business plan...
Please take a look at an article about the work I did with Oakley Home Access to build their success. For Oakley, I developed a marketing plan, recommended branding changes, developed job descriptions and made a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) recommendation. In addition, I identified...
I am very pleased to tell all of you about an article I wrote that was just published in the August edition of the Rhode Island Small Business Journal print and online versions (www.RISBJ.com). In it, I describe the initial interaction that a small business...
Most business owners believe that raising sales or lowering costs will lead to increased profits. The reality is that it depends on many factors such as the cost of raising sales, the cost of providing additional units of a product or hours of a service,...
