November 3, 2011
Are you Simply Shadow Dancing?
October 4, 2011 I didn't get it after watching the group Silhouettes perform on America's Got Talent (I was, however, the only one in my…
November 2, 2011
Watch Your Debt
The Wall Street Journal recently had an article about how many midsize chain restaurants are struggling. The interesting commonality was that food costs were up…
October 19, 2011
Watch Your Vendor Concentration
A former client took me to lunch recently and shared that his top manufacturer, accounting for 60% of his revenues, had dropped him as their…
September 30, 2011
Banking Realities in 2011
Weekly Memo - September 6, 2011 On August 26, 2011 Mike Flynn, former publisher of the Puget Sound Business Journal and now active in the world of…
September 17, 2011
Three Tips on Preparing for Sale
At my Rotary Club meeting recently Tim Gibbons, co-founder and president of PharmacyOneSource, spoke about the evolution of the company and its sale to a…
September 3, 2011
Vacations-Who Needs Them?
It must be that time of year as on August 15, 2011 I was quoted in Portfolio.com in an article about taking vacations and on…
August 22, 2011
Read my Interview in Portfolio.com
I was interviewed for an article in Portfolio.com (a bizjournals.com publication) on the taking or not taking of vacations. Read it here. Get Started With…
July 21, 2011
A Business Model to Emulate
While traveling recently it was time to put gas in the car and get some lunch. We ended up at McDonald's (as an infrequent fast…
July 7, 2011
SBA Loans are a Great Option
In my Roundtable Discussion last week Mark Costello, the regional director of SBA lending, was the topic presenter. It was interesting to hear some of…
June 7, 2011
You Don’t Need to Know Everything
You don’t need to know everything; you need to know everything important. There’s a big difference between the two preceding phrases and it’s where business…
