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101: For the Lowest Costs Recheck a Process Before Automating It
Despite admonitions to automate the best of what's possible, most automation simply reduces costs somewhat for yesterday's obsolete practices. You only avoid that stalled approach by rechecking a proc..
102: Reversing the Mindset of the Home Based Business Entrepreneur
Typically the reason we choose to become home based business entrepreneur is based on something we want for ourselves. We may want to be our own boss, or want to bring our spouse home from a job that ..
103: Essential Leadership Skills for the Home Based Business Entrepreneur
Your leadership qualities will determine your future success as a home based business entrepreneur. They also play a big part in how successful those who follow you will be. Sometimes we choose to lea..
104: For Home Based Business Entrepreneurs Who Hate Selling
For a home based business entrepreneur connecting with people to help create sales is everything. No matter how great YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE MAY BE – without having people interested in it you..
105: Overwhelmed by Starting a Business? Utilize Your Strengths
Making the shift from employee to entrepreneur can be a daunting task. The changes necessary to master entrepreneurial skill sets, habits, and paradigms can be overwhelming. "Do I have what it takes..
106: How To Change An American Nightmare into the Dreams of Tomorrow
Entrepreneurship is not just a philosophical dream; it is the vehicle to accomplish dreams. This trillion-dollar enterprise is the American Dream in action. America was built on the concept of entrepr..
107: Short Sale Goldmine - Step-By-Step Process
You have just found a short sale goldmine. In this article, I have described the step-by-step process that many professional real estate investors have paid at least $5,000 for. Use this information..
108: Add Breakthrough Solution Cost-Reduction Capability
Most organizations have only one person in them who knows how to create breakthrough solutions. Why? These individuals have usually learned about and created breakthrough solutions on their own, away ..
109: Square the Benefits of Your Recent Breakthrough Cost Reductions
When clients and students describe their first breakthrough solutions, they always acknowledge that repeating the process will be a good idea. When the improvement has been related to reducing costs, ..
110: Expand Your Focus to Locate Previously Unperceived Targets for Cost Reductions
New breakthrough solution cost reducers often lack confidence when they begin. As a result, they pick some area of glaring inefficiency as an easy target. In such activities, it's not unusual for a br..
111: For Best Results Repeat Cost-Reduction Steps
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel PaigeWhen you buy most vehicles, they come with an owner's manual that describes routine checkups and maintenance. The purpose of such ch..
112: Resist All Expensive and Slow-Developing Choices to Pursue Cost-Reduction Opportunities
What is a slow-developing opportunity? It's almost always an opportunity that you don't know how to pursue yet. What's a slow-developing, expensive opportunity? It's an opportunity for which you've sp..
113: Redo Your Business Model to Make Functions in Your Organization Obsolete
One of the most reliable ways to see what's unnecessary is simply to develop a new business model that eliminates some functions. Perhaps no area has been as profoundly influenced by this approach as ..
114: Ask the World to Compete to Find Breakthrough Methods
Competitive advantage is based not on doing what others already do well, but on doing what others cannot do as well. --John Kay What organization can afford to stand still? Most would agree that focus..
115: Design Your Offering to Be Friendlier to Do-It-Yourselfers
The people who design offerings are often the worst people to design do-it-yourself directions for beneficiaries, customers, and users. Why? Designers know too much! They can help themselves very easi..
116: Pick Critical Elements That Can Lead to Breakthrough Cost Reductions
Those who analyze systems understand that a process can only operate as well as the least effective activity. Mr. Henry Ford's assembly line couldn't go any faster than the slowest step in the process..
117: Launch Redundant Searches for Cost-Reduction Solutions
When you're trying to do something no one has ever thought about doing before, where do you find the best solution? Chances are that you cannot predict what the best information and knowledge sources ..
118: Set Cost Reduction Goals to Move Years Ahead of Competitors by Seeking Worldwide Expertise
A good way to accelerate improving competitive position is to set progress goals to move years ahead of what anyone else has been delivering. An even better idea is to set goals that represent astonis..
119: The Number One Best Piece Of Sales Advice Ever
A lot of entrepreneurs all ask me the same question, "Hey Mark, if you're the 'Sales Made Simple Coach', what's the one piece of advice you can give me to make my sales process easier and more effecti..
120: Set Goals Beyond What Seems to Be the Theoretical Best Practice
Assuming that you've found an exciting element to optimize at reduced cost, what kind of a goal should you set? Most people can imagine creating some pretty astonishing performance with unlimited fund..
121: Replace Expensive Outsourcing with Excellent Internal Solutions
Well-found consultants can stay in a company forever; moving from one divisional trouble spot to another . . . --Robert Heller I often consider outsourcing's practical limits while visiting my neighb..
122: Be Flexible with Selecting and Employing Resources
Detroit fell in love with robots in the 1980s. Led by GM's Roger Smith, robots seemed to offer the promise of improving quality, eliminating dangerous jobs, and making Detroit more competitive with Ja..
123: Follow the Rules of the Road for Helpful Do-It-Yourself Owners' Manuals
Because of potential lawsuits related to harm caused by misusing an offering, few will decide to avoid providing directions. For elaborate offerings, owners' manuals will be required. In addition, som..
124: How To Un-Stick Your Sales Efforts And Get Back To Sales Success!
Have you noticed lately that your sales have hit a plateau? Or worse, have your sales started to slide a little - even though you seem to have a full sales funnel or pipeline of prospects and potenti..
125: To Erase Harmful Costs, Provide Hands-On Experiences Before Offerings Are Sold
Hands-on experiences benefit stakeholders and organizations. The experiences allow potential beneficiaries, customers, and users to see if the offering is right for them. While such experiences may dr..
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