By Mark Tepper, an EO Cleveland member and president of Strategic Wealth Partners
Your participation in clubs and organizations shouldn’t end in high school. Joining a professional organization of like-minded businesspeople can do a lot for your business and your personal livelihood. Here are just a few benefits of joining an entrepreneurial organization:
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES members
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By Mark Tepper, an EO Cleveland member and president of Strategic Wealth Partners
Have you ever noticed that fire trucks always back into the fire hall? Why don’t they just pull into their parking spot snout-forward like the rest of us?
Backing in at the end of a shift saves them time when they have to get to a fire. They back in to be ready; whether the call comes in five minutes or five days, they are prepared to pull out as quickly as possible.
Like the firemen, you, as a business owner, need to be ready when you get the call from someone who wants to buy your business.
Categories: FINANCES members Sales
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By Mark Tepper, assignment help an EO Cleveland member and president of Strategic Wealth Partners
The ultimate test of your business can be found in a simple question: Would someone want to buy your company? Whether you want to sell next year or in a decade from now, you must be building an asset that someone would buy – otherwise, you have a job, not a business.
Here are eight ways to ensure you are building a company, not just doing a job:
Categories: Coaching FINANCES members
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By Mark Tepper, an EO Cleveland member and president of Strategic Wealth Partners
Did you see the news that Facebook has recently acquired Internet messaging service WhatsApp for US$19 billion? It represents the largest-ever acquisition of an Internet company in history.
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By Mark Tepper, an EO Cleveland member, and president of Strategic Wealth Partners
For many, January is a time of rebirth and resolutions. It’s a month to reflect on last year’s achievements and to set goals for the year ahead.
Some people will set personal goals like losing weight or quitting a nasty habit, and most company owners will set business goals that focus on hitting certain revenue or profit milestones. But if your goal is to own a more valuable business in 2014, you may want to make one of the following New Year’s resolutions:
Categories: Goal Setting members Productivity
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By Mark Tepper, an EO Cleveland member and president of Strategic Wealth Partners
The most powerful metrics in any business are ratios that express your performance on metric A as it relates to metric B. For example, knowing what your revenue was last year is interesting; but knowing what your revenue per employee was will give you a sense of how efficient your business is at leveraging your investment in people.
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