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If your goal is to build a more valuable company, stop selling your time.  Billing by the hour or day means customers are renting your time rather…

Repeat business drives the value of your company, and you can categorize these sales into one of two buckets: Recurring revenue is more valuable than recurring sales…

Repeat customers are the lifeblood of your business, but customers can be fickle. Here’s how to make them sticky. In a traditional business, the customer buys your…

Have you ever noticed that fire trucks always back into the fire hall?                                    Why don’t they just pull into their parking spot snout-forward like the rest of…

If you find yourself in a position where your customers always insist on speaking with you directly instead of your employees, then you might want to consider…

Last month, Darden, the owner of the Olive Garden restaurant chain, announced it was acquiring Ruth’s Chris, the legendary American steakhouse, for $715 million, implying a valuation…

One of the eight factors that impact the value of your company is something the team at The Value Builder System™ refers to as “The Switzerland Structure,”…

Picture a magic slot machine. Each time you pull the arm, you make back a multiple of whatever you wagered. How much time would you devote to cranking…

French economist Jean-Baptiste Say characterized an entrepreneur as one who “shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and…

We live in a business world where growth is worshipped. Entrepreneurs measure themselves by how many people they employ. Many founders dream about making lists whose sole…