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Cleveland, OH, February 17, 2012 – “Fulfilling The Potential Of Your Business” has been voted a Winner for a 2012 Small Business Book Award, in the category of Management.

The Small Business Book Awards recognize business books that were published in 2011. Small business owners often seek advice and information through books. While there are many thousands of books published each year, it’s those of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Small Business Book Awards seek to honor.

“With so ...

Let’s be practical. Do you have time to get involved in social media? Because it does take time. The good news from first hand practical experience is that by allocating about 2 hours per week including 10 min per day you can build a very productive presence in the world of social media. Using just 3 tools, Blogging platform, Twitter and LinkedIn you can build a “voice” on your terms that can really add value to your audience and I ...

Thank you for your support by voting for my new book. We are currently sitting at number #9 out of 70 nominated books on Management!

3 days to go. You can vote every 24 hours, so if you feel like clicking that button it’s under HERE.

Testimonials so far:

Derek Sivers, founder, CD Baby, sivers.org - Great advice in a great format. 60 little stand-alone chapters, each compiling helpful wisdom from his and others’ experience. A great read, especially for ...

Simplifying things right down to the bare essentials is hard work. It’s easier to type the long report, long email, long draft speech, an overblown, ponderous, 40 page business plan than it is to write a one page executive summary. As a business owner it’s easier to push into related fields to add revenue than it is pushing through the pain and determination needed to dominate one niche.

Downtimes are a great opportunity to go back to basics to remind yourself ...

Thank you for your support by voting for my new book. We are currently sitting at number #6 out of 70 nominated books on Management!

11 days to go. You can vote every 24 hours, so if you feel like clicking that button it’s under HERE.

Testimonials so far:

Derek Sivers, founder, CD Baby, sivers.org - Great advice in a great format. 60 little stand-alone chapters, each compiling helpful wisdom from his and others’ experience. A great read, especially ...

As the CEO, it’s easy I hear you say, just increase sales or reduce costs or both!

Brilliant. However on the basis that your operational team needs more guidance than that, I’ve listed a few ideas to get your juices flowing. A few ideas worth considering to leverage your existing footprint.

Scaling an Operational Cell

Are you building a marketing and sales cell that can be replicated anywhere in the globe? A lead generation machine and sales closing team that is so slick ...

It’s time to vote for a great business book for entrepreneurs!

Fulfilling The Potential Of Your Business has been nominated for a 2012 Small Business Book Award in the category of Management.

The Small Business Book Awards recognize business books that were published in 2011. Small business owners often seek advice and information through books. While there are many thousands of books published each year, it’s those of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs that the Small Business Book Awards seek to ...

As the CEO of your business you want to grow a profitable, sustainable business, built to last. You start with sales which are flat, declining or at best in single digit growth. So you start with a sales trainer to boost sales. Doesn’t work. The symptom of weak sales you assume is caused by a weak sales team. Not true or at least you can’t say that until you have an Operational Blueprint in place.

In 2011, The Portfolio Partnership worked ...

During last year at The Portfolio Partnership we embedded our operational blueprint across many sectors. The most common symptom across all clients? Handing operational problems correctly to get them solved.
Yes key operational blueprints regarding marketing and sales, metrics and talent nurturing were needed but fundamentally the culture to solve problems needed to change.

I’ve noted below a simple solution with examples that I hope will help. Execution seems theoretically simple but that’s where the problems start. Stuff only gets done ...

The world’s information is doubling every two years according to a survey by EMC and IDC. The number is 1.8 zettabytes. Or as the mashable social media blog stated last year that’s 57.5 Billion iPads (32GB) worth of stored data. Or in dollars, that’s $34 trillion or the combined GDP of US, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Italy and China!

You see the problem with this environment is that we start to look at the wrong stuff, too much stuff, ...