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December 23, 2011

Tough to Fill Jobs; Tough to Sell Businesses

The Wall Street Journal reported on October 3, 2011 that even with high unemployment many jobs are hard to fill. In this era of specialization, technology and…

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December 12, 2011

Business Owners Focusing on Growth

I've been conducting a survey of business owners (started on December 6, 2011) and the early results are interesting. The vast majority of respondents say…

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December 5, 2011

American Airlines and Small Business

American Airlines declares bankruptcy because of their overwhelming debt load. How many airlines haven't declared bankruptcy? Are there any major ones, besides Southwest, that haven't?…

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November 22, 2011

The Economy – Mixed Signals

Pick up any publication and you'll see headlines about the European financial markets collapsing, our stock markets moving like a yo-yo, companies like Kodak in…

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November 15, 2011

Growth, Buyouts and Cash

I'm in the middle of two internal buyouts. In both cases the companies are in a growth mode, 20-25% over the last year and projecting…

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November 11, 2011

Small Business can Learn from Big Business

The October 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section's headline was: "Apple's Game Plan: Avoiding Culture Shock" and dealt with Apple's decade-long succession plan for the late Steve Jobs.…

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November 7, 2011

Quantity or Quality?

October 18, 2011 At the end of September Allstate announced that they were changing their commission structure and thinning their ranks (Wall Street Journal, September…

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Business Buying Exiting & Selling Increasing Value

November 5, 2011

What you See his What you Get – The 2011-15 economy

October 11, 201 The cover story of the September 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal was titled, "Home Forecast Calls for Pain." The main point made in the…

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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…

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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…

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Tough to Fill Jobs; Tough to Sell Businesses

Business Owners Focusing on Growth

American Airlines and Small Business

The Economy – Mixed Signals

Growth, Buyouts and Cash

Small Business can Learn from Big Business

Quantity or Quality?

What you See his What you Get – The 2011-15 economy

Are you Simply Shadow Dancing?

Watch Your Debt

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