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Small business evaluation questionnaire from Profits Plus We have visited with a lot of small businesses and asked the owners and managers many questions about their business. When we work with a Main Street program, downtown development authority, business improvement district, chambers of commerce, merchants associations and other similar organizations we ask for the opportunity to learn in advance about the business and the owner or manager. We send a PDF which asks a lot of questions about the business and the person answering the questions. These are not questions that have right or wrong answers, but we think as the questions are answered a person gets a feel of where they are comforable and uncomfortable about themselves and the business. We want to share this opportunity to "self evaluate" with you. This link, Small Business Evaluation Questionnaire, allows you to download the questionnaire. We hope you enjoy many aspects of what you see about yourself and your busines; and that you work to improve the rest. PROFITS PLUS, FOUNDER OF...
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With over 25 years of frontline experience Tom Shay is America's leading Small Business Management Expert. He's a "Must Have" for your next event.
Small Business
Every time I see the logo for Target stores, I think about small businesses and the need to know which people to target as their customers. Of course, of most importance is the person who has spent any money with your business.
I ask businesses if they know how much the average person spends with their business. Most offer a quick response with a dollar amount. That answer is incorrect as they are telling me what the average existing customer is spending. The average person in any community spends no money with that small business.
Looking for new customers without any plan of how to do so is just spending money. That is why every small business needs to know how to find and use information. Find ideas in the March Small Business Advisory.
Small Business
Employee retention; is it important? Or is it easier to lose an employee and wait for the next applicant to walk in the door? The Small Business News for March shares some statistics of the expense you incur when you make the change instead of working to retain a current employee.
It is baseball season and we use the sport as an explanation of the cost of growing your business. In Boston's Fenway Park, left field has a wall that is know as the green monster.
And that is what growing your business is - a monster! You can't successfully grow your business without a plan and knowing you will have the cash on hand to pay for the growth.
Are you selling something or persuading the customer? With your employees are you repeatedly telling that employee or are you persuading them to excel?
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Ciaidini is our suggested book for March 2026. Most definitely an appropriate read.
All this plus the Internet Tool for Your Business and a staff incentive idea for your business.
