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“You’ve made the product — let me help you make a business.”Next generation Growth Management Consulting: Turning Great Products Into Great BusinessesCreating something innovative is hard. ...
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1. Have clarity in how you add value to your clients – focus on that. Leverage your point of difference2. Identify your target beachhead market – the people who you can make the most money from...
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Starting a new business or product line? Have you validated your market yet?Do you have enough facts to convince a complete non-emotional stranger that once you have built your product or service t...
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Going to a networking function and decided you want to nail your elevator pitch … try this format out for size.Build your 90 sec elevator sales pitch with sound bites - (10 – 15 sec succinct st...
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Being in business is addictive and just like alcoholics, business owners loose objectivity –wasting too much time on the wrong idea or activity. It’s my ambition to accelerate the growth and fa...
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“Mastering the Rockefeller Habits – What you must do to increase value of your growing firm” by Verne Harnish was referred to me by an entrepreneur who thought it was my style of book: p...
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Before you hit send on that next memo, or deliver that speech or announcement to your staff, or write that next PR release – check for bullshit!Ok look at your last piece of prose: did you includ...
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Are your staff on board or not?   Do a quick test – sit back and listen to how your staff talk about your company. Is it  in terms of “we” or “they” – this is a good...
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Often business owners get distracted by the complexity of their own business and end up wasting time and energy working on the wrong stuff. The business model canvas is a technique that documents y...
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Have you ever sat back and analysed your business network and assessed who gives you referrals that result in clients – one’s that pay.Building a collection of names – EasyBuilding relationsh...
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Running Lean (e-book) attacks the problem of how to grow web start-ups.  Ash Maurya has taken my favourite business model tool “The Business Model Generation” and tweaked it to meet his ne...
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Lack of clarity in business around what value they offer their clients or whats important to clients can be fatal. It has been so refreshing to recently read the 37Signals Rework book . Here is a c...
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Jason Friend & David Heinemeier Hansson are founders of 37signals – home of products such as base camp, high rise and creators of the “Ruby on rails” revolution. The 37signal’s tea...
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Some great blog posts by Simon Telfer (co-founder of  Springboard NZ)  - on boards that are worthy of a read.Words for the wise- some great quotes from experienced board members ... ...
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Is your business a pig or a chicken?Harold Star’s book “Chicken and Pigs – Business Models and Competitive Strategies” puts  businesses into 4 categories.These models are referenced by...
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