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Small Business Trends for 2021-2022

                      March - April, 2021               Volume 12 --  Issue 100   Small Business Trends for 2021: Time to Move Forward Hope, at least, has increased for seeing the end of The Pandemic Year(s) and a return to some form of normality.  Exactly when that might look like is still anyone’s guess.  Vaccines are being distributed around the world; more efficiently in some countries than others.  But, people are finding access to vaccines is moving a bit smoother than when they first launched. This Summer, [...]

By |2022-02-07T02:41:51-05:00March 31st, 2021|COVID Business Survival, Growth, Newsletter, Strategic Management, Success, Technology|
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Useful Business Saving Actions During COVID-19 Lockdown

Maurer Consulting Group has been a from home operation for quite some time.  So, that part was not a new hardship imposed by COVID-19 shutdowns.  Other small business owners and leaders watched as their businesses imploded into a number of separate pieces, trying to continue operations from numerous different places.   Business as they knew it was reconfigured overnight and with little warning.  I know it was time for some useful business saving actions and strategies. I am thankful that my isolation at home is just my husband and myself during the COVID-19 pandemic.  That has been our normal for the [...]

By |2020-05-24T04:48:17-04:00May 24th, 2020|COVID Business Survival, Growth, Innovation, Strategy|
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Why Small Businesses Fail to Grow – Change Is in Your Control

                                      November-December, 2019               Volume 15 -- Issue 92   Sometimes just knowing what you need to have or do to expand and grow your business isn’t enough.   Not knowing how to make necessary changes, when and where to begin can become major barriers.  It is like running into a very thick, high, wide wall.  You are stopped dead in your tracks.  You want to get back on your path to success beyond that wall, but [...]

By |2021-11-22T05:47:46-05:00November 20th, 2019|Growth, Newsletter, Strategy, Success|
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5 Ways to Increase the Value of Your Small Business

  Focus on Increasing the Value of Your Small Business Every entrepreneur would love to boost the value of his or her small business.  Opinions differ as to which strategies are best to add meaningful value in weeks or months as opposed to years or decades. Fret not, you can significantly increase the value of your small business in a short period of time if you implement proper strategies. Even if you do not end up with an offer that knocks your socks off, increasing the value of your small business just might inspire a lofty bid at some point [...]

By |2019-07-04T00:39:30-04:00July 4th, 2019|Growth, Strategy|
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Critical Business Support Pillars for Small Business Success

What are business support pillars?  Never heard of them?  Sounds like it’s time for some education into the most important and basic of business elements.  I’m referring to Pillars – Critical Business Support Pillars.  Pillars provide not only support for the company, but allow a strong, stable small business to be built using these support elements.  Just like when a home or public building is planned, a strong support structure needs to come first.  Pillars provide support and strength to hold the building up.  Pull one out and your structure is in danger of collapsing.  The same can happen if [...]

By |2022-05-05T17:37:55-04:00May 17th, 2019|Growth, Strategy, Systems and Processes|
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Common Small Business Pain Points

If owning and operating a small business successfully was easy, everyone would be doing it.  So many entrepreneurs dive into the small business pool with little or no research or preparation under their belt.  That approach causes some entrepreneurs to sink to the bottom right away, or just tread water.  Either way will leave them in one place with no movement in a positive direction.  Somehow, they think they can do it – often alone - then find themselves struggling to survive.  Small business pain points can take you down if not addressed. Without pre-planning and setting up business processes, [...]

By |2019-08-22T16:24:50-04:00April 7th, 2019|Business Planning, Employees, Growth, Sales, Strategy, Systems and Processes|
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Growth and Success:  5 Essential Points to Know About Your Firm

I must admit to a well-intentioned, but bad habit.  I've been dealing with it for a very long time and haven't really found a solution.  I am a bit paranoid about breaking the habit and losing exceptional ideas and information. Notes and little scraps of paper with gems of wisdom only come around every once in a while.  I can't control the growth and success of my company - or my clients' either, for that matter - if I don't put those ideas to work. I am in the midst of efforts to declutter my life.   The older we get, [...]

By |2019-08-22T15:25:25-04:00March 7th, 2019|Branding, Growth|
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Hire Quality Employees to Move Your Business to the Next Level

When trying to grow your business and take it to the next level, one important thing to consider expanding is your staff. You may have settled on the right amount of people working for you to begin with.  But, once you expand your business, the overall workload will increase in more ways than one.  The right person today may not be the right person in your next growth phase.  It goes without saying that you want to hire quality employees to move your business forward. Being able to find the right people and knowing where to find them will help [...]

By |2018-08-24T18:45:20-04:00August 27th, 2018|Employees, Growth|
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Small Business Success Built Using 8 Common Traits

Do you ever wonder why one or more of your competitors is doing better than you?  Is their small business growing, but yours is not?  You think you are doing pretty much the same things, but are you really? While they seem to be experiencing a high level of small business success, you are not. Perhaps they are doing something you aren’t aware of.   Maybe they have skills and traits different from your own.  Or, maybe they got started using goals and strategies.  Whatever the differences might be, they seem to have more small business success than you. Did you [...]

By |2018-06-19T03:31:24-04:00June 19th, 2018|Growth|
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9 Powerful Principles of Small Business Success

Powerful Principles of Small Business Success There is no one simple rule or process for building a successful small business.  Nor is there anything simple about achieving small business success.  Small business success requires a lot of focus and clear direction to get you where you want to go.  It is not something that magically happens after you finish a degree in business, or work in someone else's business.  Creating a plan and using some basic principles of small business success will start moving your firm in the right direction. Building a successful business of your own is the basis [...]

By |2022-05-05T17:33:08-04:00April 30th, 2018|Growth, Strategic Management, Systems and Processes|
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