Your Business Life Cycle: The Downhill Slide
Unfortunately, for a myriad of reasons, most businesses at some point find themselves in decline. Sales are decreasing, or profits are decreasing, or both. The biggest issue (and the [...]
Your Business Life Cycle: Growth and Expansion
For most businesses, the first four stages of the business life cycle (The Idea, Actual Work, Look Out World, and We’ve Arrived) happen with a certain amount of predictability. But [...]
Your Business Life Cycle: We’ve Arrived!
Finally. After (probably) years of hard work, you have an established business. In stage four of the business life cycle, your wild toddler has matured into a thriving adult with its [...]
Your Business Life Cycle: Look Out World!
Your business has gone from birth (The Idea) through infancy (Actual Work) and is now in stage three, the toddler stage, going full speed in any direction that looks interesting. In fact, [...]
Your Business Life Cycle: Actual Work
Once your business moves past the “dream” stage, it becomes an actual, functioning entity. It has been born! This is the second stage in the business life [...]