| Recovery Planning The Need To Take Control, Apr '10 (1 pg)
By Terence J. Shepherd
Many business owners envision writing a business plan as a task or chore much bigger than it needs to be. Taking the time to draft a plan now using the "4 Step Process" will give you direction and guidance.
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Selling Your Business The Unpleasant Surprise After, Jan '10 (1 pg)
By Terence J. Shepherd
The personal, emotional issues of planning are the key drivers to a successful transition. Read more about the owners preparing for selling their business and what caught them by surprise.
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Building Business Value, Nov '09 (1 pg)
By Terence J. Shepherd
When is the last time you reflected on why you started your business? Read advice for business owners in planning recovery strategies about including the end-in-mind business transition goal so you can discover areas where you can immediately begin to increase business value.
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Managing For Recovery, Oct '09 (20 pgs)
by ROCG America's
This booklet offers a clear and concise way for a privately held business to re-examine itself, to identify the key elements of its success, to develop strategies for ensuring its survival during economic turmoil, and ultimately to build a plan for thriving in the present and the future.
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Preparing For The Recovery With A Focus On Your End-In-Mind Objective, Oct '09 (2 pgs)
by Terence J. Shepherd
When you think back to when you first decided to start your business, to stop working for someone else, your initial need was a stream of income but you also wanted to build value for an eventual sale. Compare and match how your business stacks up against the questions on this list and discover areas that you can immediately begin to increase business value.
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Designing The Right Mangement Reports For A Volatile Economy, July '09 (3 pgs)
by ROCG Corporate
When the economy is volatile, or trending downhill, the need to respond quickly and proactively to events is critical to staying afloat. Taking days or weeks to respond can leave your business struggling. Too often problems or opportunities remain unrecognized and unaddressed, or are only picked up in the year end accounts, too late for a change of course. Read more about the two key types of indicators that should be tracked closely to help stabilize your business.
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Discounting Is Dangerous, Jul '09 (2 pgs)
by Joseph J. Vajda
In tough economic times, many small-to-medium sized business owners consider discounting prices to stimulate their sales. This may seem like a good idea but before you succumb to temptation to discount, consider these ten problems.
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Things May Never Be The Same Again - The "New Normal", Jun '09 (2 pgs)
by Ronen Shefer
"No news is good news" and with fewer reports of bad news lately, some are thinking we've hit rock bottom with no way to go but up. Certainly things will get better, but keep in mind while the economy will recover one day, thing may never be the same again. This is not a pessimistic statement rather an acknowledgment that people will not repeat the mistakes of the past.
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Ten Steps To Survive And Grow Your Small Business In A Recession, Mar '09 (5 pgs)
by Curtis A. Feldman
Though the full extent of the recession has yet to play out, there are specific steps you can take now to help provide comfort and prepare for any strategic changes you may need to make in the next year. To aid the small business owner, I’ve put together ten key things that I believe are essential for the survival and growth of your small business.
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Revenue is Vanity; Profit is Sanity; Cash is King, Feb '09 (1 pg)
Know exactly where your cash is now...and where you expect it to be next week and next month. Use these proven methods of specific action you can take TODAY.
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How The Economic Crisis Happened, Feb '09 (40 pgs)
by Stephen Reisler
An in depth review of how we came to the state of affairs today. This Power Point presentation includes a historical comparison of the Great Depression and the storm beginning in 2007 through the subprime mortgage challenge resulting with important lessons we can learn.
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Navigate Through The Economic Crisis, Jan '09 (5 pgs)
by Terence J. Shepherd
To state that it has not been a terribly good year, would be a tremendous understatement.From real estate, to stock investments, to credit line decreases, to credit unavailability, both consumers and almost all sectors of business were hit and hit hard.
For business owners, this has brought about both new challenges and a totally different operating environment, the like of which, many have never experienced beforehand. As a result, businesses can
not sustain themselves with a ‘business as usual’ mentality.
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IBIS World Report: Economic Crisis: When will it End?, Jan '09 (14 pgs)
by Dr. Richard J. Buczynski and Michael Bright
It will be at least another six months before the current economic gloom eases and small signs of recovery begin to emerge in the U.S. After a very tough year for businesses and consumers, IBISWorld predicts that the U.S. economy will start growing again in the third quarter of 2009, driven primarily by government spending and tax cuts. However, it will be a long, painful road to recovery, and the economy will not return to its normal course before 2011.
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Managing Through The Economic Crisis, Dec '08 (20 pgs)
by Jim Mckerlie
Jim McKerlie, the CEO of ROCG Global and a Partner in the Shepherd & Goldstein affiliated international consultancy division - ROCG Shepherd & Goldstein Consulting Group LLC, in ROCG America's - has written an in-depth report on steps to take to manage a business through recessionary times.
Mr. McKerlie has more than twenty-five years of consulting experience working with clients around the world. His client base includes numerous major international public companies, the public sector and privately owned businesses. Jim has consulted extensively in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa.
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