by Norm Brodsky | Jun 19, 2019 | Business Tips, Family Business, Mentoring, Money, Small Business
When your company has credit card debt, there’s almost always a logical reason for it, financing growth being at the top of the list. But it’s not a great idea to carry a lot of debt year over year. In a recent post on my Inc. magazine column, I tell the...
by Lewis Schiff | Jun 12, 2019 | Business Tips, Sales Amplification, Women in Business
A killer sales team needs a killer sales strategy to really bring in the revenue. A typical component of that strategy for companies – especially retail or SaaS – is to begin the pricing portion of sales calls with a list price. Many sales trainers think...
by Lewis Schiff | Jun 5, 2019 | Fellowship Program, Kill the Legacy, Podcast, Sales Amplification, Small Business, Technology
For the latest Birthing of Giants podcast I interviewed Alex Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Azulle and a graduate of the Birthing of Giants Fellowship program. Azulle is a Miami, Florida based manufacturer of mini PC’s – a low power, fanless PC that’s right on...
by Norm Brodsky | May 29, 2019 | Business Tips, Entrepreneurship, Mentoring, Small Business
When’s the best time to think about selling your company? Right now, even if you have no current plans to sell. I’m a firm believer that you should build your company from the beginning to sell for maximum dollar. In my experience most entrepreneurs...
by Lewis Schiff | May 22, 2019 | Business Tips, Customer Service
When it comes to driving profits, sales is the obvious front-runner. If you’re not consistently converting leads into customers, then that’s certainly your number one problem. But once you’ve got them, you have to keep them. The way to keep customers...
by Norm Brodsky | May 15, 2019 | Company Culture, Stakeholder Capitalism
You’ve heard it said that people don’t quit jobs – they quit people. There’s a lot of truth in that. I brushed the dust off of this vintage post from my Inc. magazine column, because company culture is a vital component of any business, and...
by Lewis Schiff | May 8, 2019 | Entrepreneurship
In Birthing of Giants’ latest podcast, I interview KITEWIRE founder, Jere Simpson. Jere has been a participating member of the Birthing of Giants community almost since the beginning, where his classic story of an entrepreneur armed with a vision and the drive to make...
by Lewis Schiff | May 1, 2019 | Business Tips, Women in Business
In a recent post for Inc. magazine, Board of Experts member Vanessa Nornberg shared how the stewardess on a cross country flight ruined what was supposed to be a rare, luxury experience for Vanessa. She deviated from her usual economy class seat to fly first class,...
by Norm Brodsky | Apr 24, 2019 | Business Tips, Entrepreneurship, Mentoring, Partnership
it’s a well known saying in business that the best entrepreneurs think of ways to turn failure to success by finding opportunities where problems exist. But sometimes that’s easier said than done. Spotting a problem is usually easy enough, but the...
by Lewis Schiff | Apr 17, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Family Business, Marketing, Podcast, Technology
When 1-800-Flowers.com founder, Jim McCann, bought a single flower shop in Manhattan, he knew that he wanted to be more than just a florist. Forty years later his small NYC shop is now a $1 Billion dollar giant. With his recent decision to move from CEO to Executive...
