For years, I have tried to answer this one question: What do small businesses that achieve sustained growth do differently from those that do not grow?

As a senior consultant for Inc. mag

In September of 2005 our company sponsored a survey of small businesses in the service areas. The purpose of the survey was to ask the business owners, many of them franchise owners, what their sign

Cashflow Idea No. 1. Use cashflow sales checklists.

For sales people, get them to ask every single customer to make another add-on purchase with the one theyve already made. A great way to

When looking at Akron carefully one cannot help but notice its brilliant location to rivers, water, large cities and middle class consumer spending populations. With Canton to the South, high-end an