A Found Money Minute

I’ve now started publishing quick thoughts and articles that you can read in about a minute or two. Designed to be thought-provoking and to give you some ideas and insights about your small business, and how it succeeds. Here’s the [...]

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Curious Cases of Compensation

I’ve been working with a group of small business owners over the last several weeks taking them through my new Found Money QuickStart Program. They have been discovering some disturbing things for themselves about how their businesses have been making [...]

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Filling Holes vs Building Mountains

Think about this for a moment. If you start shoveling dirt to fill up a hole, you need to do a certain amount of work just to get “back to ground level”. There is a certain volume of dirt and [...]

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What Do You WANT From Me?

Do you hear it? That’s the question your business is asking you – every single day. At least, that’s what it would be asking you if it could talk. Any business creates financial results for its owners – that’s an [...]

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Does Your CFO Suck?

I can almost guarantee it. How? It’s simple.  Every business has a CFO – someone who guides the strategy, tactics, and operations of the business to produce a financial outcome.  This person, just like in Fortune 500 companies, is responsible [...]

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Do You Know Your Business Model?

I talk a lot with business owners about their business model. A business model is simply the true underlying structure that drives the financial results for any business. It’s kind of like the engine room and infrastructure on a cruise [...]

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Is Your Business Doomed To Fail? (Hint – it is if you think you don’t need a CFO)

What the heck does that headline mean? Is it telling you that if you don’t run out and hire a CFO for $250,000 or more a year, you simply won’t make it? Nope.  I’m not saying that at all. Here’s [...]

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Going Gaga For Making Money

I admit it – I’m a big Lady Gaga fan. Not only is she a great performer, but she also has provided an illustration of how deceptive creating a money making business can be. She recently revealed that she was [...]

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Filling A Hole Is Just Like Building A Mountain

Think about this for a moment. If you start shoveling dirt to fill up a hole, you need to do a certain amount of work just to get “back to ground level”. In other words, there is effort required just [...]

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Money Is Made At The Very Beginning

I was on the phone with a client the other day and he was planning a big marketing push to acquire some new sources of sales leads. This is a guy who has built a great business – he’s nailed [...]

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