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How To Turn Your Business Around (Intro)
I spend most of my days meeting with or calling on small business owners. I absolutely love this part of my job and I thrive on the interaction with the entrepreneurial breed. Entrepreneurs have a spirit like no other segment of our local, state or national economy. Entrepreneurs are the people who have said “I can do this better than the next guy” or “I know other people will want this product or service”. Entrepreneurs are leaders who have decided not to depend on anyone else’s ideas to support them, but have forged their own way. They don’t mind the risk but invite it in and eat it for dinner. They look at the challenges owning your own business presents and say thank you Lord for not just another day at the office. Yes, Entrepreneurs are a breed like no other, usually.
Unfortunately these are not the business owners I have been meeting with. The business owners I have been meeting with lately look more like the troubled and the down trodden. They look like life has really deflated them this time. You can see their spirit starting to disintegrate right before your eyes. The same enthusiastic spirit that fed creativity and encouraged competition. That spirit has been replaced with the phrases of “I have too much going out and not enough coming in.” Or “I don’t know how much longer I can stay open.” These comments literally break my heart when I hear them. I can’t help but think that every time one of these businesses closes it is not just the loss of revenue America losses but it is a loss of spirit. The next time that entrepreneur has a great idea that broken spirit will fester up and tell them not to try, it’s not a good idea or worse yet it’s not worth it.
Although the beginning of this article may lead you to believe that this is going to be some philosophical commentary on the erosion of the American Entrepreneurial spirit under taxation without representation or how the American business owner has lost its will to capitalize in a capitalistic society. I assure you that is not the article I intend to present. More or less these series of articles will be a self help to the American businessman, a back to basics of business 101.
My wish is that you will read these articles and apply them to your everyday business. Then, slowly but surely you will begin to repair the marriage between opportunity and cost. My desire is that you will rekindle what was lost and find that perfect union again. I yearn for you and your business to become profitable, inventive and energetic again.
Unfortunately these are not the business owners I have been meeting with. The business owners I have been meeting with lately look more like the troubled and the down trodden. They look like life has really deflated them this time. You can see their spirit starting to disintegrate right before your eyes. The same enthusiastic spirit that fed creativity and encouraged competition. That spirit has been replaced with the phrases of “I have too much going out and not enough coming in.” Or “I don’t know how much longer I can stay open.” These comments literally break my heart when I hear them. I can’t help but think that every time one of these businesses closes it is not just the loss of revenue America losses but it is a loss of spirit. The next time that entrepreneur has a great idea that broken spirit will fester up and tell them not to try, it’s not a good idea or worse yet it’s not worth it.
Although the beginning of this article may lead you to believe that this is going to be some philosophical commentary on the erosion of the American Entrepreneurial spirit under taxation without representation or how the American business owner has lost its will to capitalize in a capitalistic society. I assure you that is not the article I intend to present. More or less these series of articles will be a self help to the American businessman, a back to basics of business 101.
My wish is that you will read these articles and apply them to your everyday business. Then, slowly but surely you will begin to repair the marriage between opportunity and cost. My desire is that you will rekindle what was lost and find that perfect union again. I yearn for you and your business to become profitable, inventive and energetic again.
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