A Brief History of Sales - Understanding the past...
If you already have a business, it's time to gather all the information you can before you start.
Job Descriptions - Not your newspaper's (or online) JD anymore...
A proper and effective Job Description serves a variety of purposes.
Describing and enacting a rational and balanced Employee Incentive plan that will result in a self-running business.
Understanding the sales history
Normalizing G&A
Building a Financial Plan
There are three elemental areas of business – any business
The three elements are:
Sales
Operations
Finance
Chart of Accounts - A map of your business...
You have to take control of this very, very, very important part of your business.
More on Understanding the Past...
Costs of Goods Sold (COGS) as it relates to sales...
Sales, COGS and the time shift...
Here is a little ammunition and something to think about the next time you hear that raising taxes on "business" will stop them from hiring or squash their ability or willingness to invest or to upgrade their equipment or infrastructure.
What do you want... really?
What is a reasonable Net Profit Margin?
A Rational Incentive Plan for Employees... "cost-free"
During one particular political segment, the station played a clip of John Boehner doing one of his “Jobs…Jobs…(It’s all your fault, Mr. President)… Jobs” rants. At that point, a question occurred to me: How many US jobs, now exported, did those three cargo vessels represent?