If you want better results when growing your business, you’ve got to focus. In business, it seems that whatever we pay attention to gets results. Today I want to focus our discussion on gross profit. How Gross Profit Matters To Your Growing Business Let’s spend a bit of...

Catapult Groups, LLC was recently list in the Vegas, Inc. “The List”. The company was included in the October 19, 2015 listing of Trade and Professional Organizations. More information can be found at Vegas Inc. ...

There is much gold in the transactions that you make as a business. Customer and prospect lists, proposals, and operational results tell an ongoing story. All of our businesses collect a tremendous amount of data that can be utilized to produce terrific results. We have proposal...

See how a Gap analysis for your business can pinpoint any danger signs that could hinder the growth or even stability of a company. Even the most knowledgeable CEOs and business owners are sometimes slow to realize when there’s a gap between how they perceive their...

Growing your business comes with many risks and rewards. The risks and rewards can be even more essential when the weight of the business or decision making is not solely on you but also a partner. Growing your business with successful partnerships is based on mutual...

Entrepreneurs, CEOs and other business leaders are a self-confident bunch. They’re good at what they do and they know it. This may be why a certain segment of this elite population is convinced they don’t need an expert business coach. Here are other reasons why you...

In 1999, Carey Smith founded the HVLS Fan Company in Lexington, Kentucky with six employees and a new idea. Why not, he reasoned, build industrial ceiling fans with airfoil blades powered by low-speed, energy-efficient motors? The company was small. The fans, up to 24 feet in...

When it was suggested that he consider the use of an executive coach, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt balked at first. “My argument was, How could a coach advise me if I’m the best person in the world at this? But that’s not what a...

Successful small business owners keep their eyes on the future, rather than focusing primarily on day-to-day operations. But planning for that future is an art in itself and, in my experience, best approached with a set of realistic expectations. Not long ago, I came upon an...

Do your meetings have a purpose or are they just filling a regular slot on your weekly calendar? When you meet with direct reports, who guides the meeting, you or them? Do these meetings have agendas or are they free-form get-togethers with no specific end-point...