Category: Commercial

Maximizing Your Business Value: A Guide for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

Ask yourself whether your business value today is where you believe it should be and, if not, why do you think it’s falling short? Are all the areas mentioned above in good shape, and would you feel confident leaving your business for a month, and knowing it would continue without a hitch while you were away?

I saw reference this week to a report which estimated the amount of private equity “dry powder” at a massive $1.96 trillion as at the end of last …

Maximizing Your Business Value: A Guide for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

How Accurate Financial Statements Can Fuel Business Growth

Financial statements can impact your business growth in multiple ways. They give you a snapshot of your company’s financial condition, create transparency with investors, inform decision-making, mitigate accounting errors, and promote business continuity.

Savvy business owners understand the importance of having a complete, up-to-date understanding of a business’ financial status. One of the most …

How Accurate Financial Statements Can Fuel Business Growth

Old-School Ways to Bring in New Customers

While digital marketing has taken center stage in recent years, old-school marketing techniques still hold value in attracting new customers.

Let’s look at some old-school ways to bring in new customers right now, that really work.

Old-School Ways to Bring in New Customers

Making Sense of Your Balance Sheet

A proper balance sheet will help you, your accounting team, and your potential investors analyze your company’s financial health.

A balance sheet is a financial statement that summarizes the financial status of your business for a particular time. Simply, a balance sheet …

Making Sense of Your Balance Sheet

Strategic vs Financial Mergers: Understanding the Differences and Benefits

Strategic and financial mergers have different objectives and outcomes for businesses involved in them.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a common business strategy for companies seeking growth, diversification, or market dominance. M&As can be…

Strategic vs Financial Mergers: Understanding the Differences and Benefits

Surviving The Shifting Tides: The Importance Of Innovative Business Approaches In Changing Times

Don’t be afraid to try new ideas, take the leap and embrace failure as a learning opportunity while your business constantly looks for ways to be innovative.

You and your business have to adapt your strategies, or the company will die.

Surviving The Shifting Tides: The Importance Of Innovative Business Approaches In Changing Times

How Top CEOs Managed The Stress Of Starting Up

The problem with stress is that it hijacks the brain and can even cause it to shrink. The stress response undermines a person’s ability to do the thing that will get their business out of a rut. It tends to be the first thing a person experience before they can make a rational or informed decision. That creates a problem.

The stress of starting a business is intense. Entrepreneurs must manage a range of emotions, running the gamut from elation to despair. One moment …

How Top CEOs Managed The Stress Of Starting Up

Advantages of Starting Your Business in Cleveland

If you’re looking at Cleveland, Ohio, as the hub for your entrepreneurial venture, you’re off to a good start. This Ohio city is well-connected while offering excellent resources for entrepreneurs.

This week I welcome back guest blogger Seth Murphey. In this article, he discusses the advantages of starting a business in Cleveland. I grew up in …

Advantages of Starting Your Business in Cleveland

Succession Planning For Your Family Business

What is succession planning, and why should female business owners of today care about it?

Succession Planning For Your Family Business