Joel Block: Growth Minute
I always counsel growing businesses to stay away from price competition if at all possible. Growing businesses, which typically are rather small, can never really compete on price.
19:15 Jul 27, 2007
Who do you do business with? How do you select your vendors? How do you figure out who the best person is to render services to you or your company?
04:25 Jul 23, 2007
Unfortunately, many consultants who are hungry to take in dollars don't recognize that they should only charge for those things in which they possess expertise.
03:52 Jul 21, 2007
Navigators exist in business. They're a little harder to find than people who know a geographical area, but as you grow your business, you'll want to hook up with an expert navigator.
07:08 Jul 16, 2007
Entrepreneurs need to remember that the goal is to get to the other side of the river. It's not quite so important who paddles the boat.
05:27 Jul 14, 2007
It's great to identify the problem - and it's always great to ask how you can monetize the solution to the problem - but if you can't actually solve it, then you can't monetize it.
06:13 Jul 9, 2007
On the vendor's side of the formula, that business needs to out-perform the expectations of the client company so that the client will want to elevate the vendor to partner status.
11:44 Jul 6, 2007
In the tax business, this means that taxpayers should push the law as far as they can, but if they are overly abusive, they will get nabbed and probably end up spending time in the Cross-Bar Hotel.
12:40 Jul 2, 2007
How much is enough? I'm not talking about money, houses, boats, cars, or other trinkets of wealth. I'm talking about information.
15:00 Jun 29, 2007
Have you ever been in a situation in which someone wants you to make the first move? I'm in that situation all the time. Here's how I think about who should make the first move.
05:11 Jun 27, 2007
When you are running and growing your business, you need to know what your perspective is. Are you looking down from a great height, or up from a great depth?
03:20 Jun 23, 2007
When you are growing your business, it's imperative that you know what you know - and what you don't know. I always recommend that entrepreneurs and service providers of all stripes specialize in some field.
15:14 Jun 18, 2007
Developing a company culture that works is one of those growing pains that every successful business experiences.
06:45 Jun 15, 2007
All of us have had the sad and painful experience of watching great athletes stay in the game past their prime. It's not pretty to watch these once-fabulous athletes struggle against newer, younger, and more athletic competitors.
06:01 Jun 11, 2007
We sat down at the conference table and began to discuss the business that we had in common. The meeting was soon interrupted when the man received a call on his cell phone...
05:37 Jun 8, 2007
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