Finance

Focusing on Your Cash Pipeline

Sales Forecast

Have you looked at your cash pipeline lately? In fact, have you thought about your small business cash management strategy in terms of a cash pipeline? A series of activities beginning with some spending on prospecting and ending with a surplus, after expenses are deducted from what the customer pays. Everybody will be familiar with [...]

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CEO Guide to Sales Management – Introduction

Sales Manager

The CEO rarely has any experience of sales management. The boss typically has a finance or maybe operations background. That’s probably because sales managers, (and the sales guys they started out as) have a different skill set. Getting the best out of others through collaboration, communication and compromise isn’t what sales people typically do. They’re [...]

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Why Business Plans Never Work

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My Business Plan never works, so why are we always being asked for meaningless spreadsheets? There is a type of business plan which makes sense, but it doesn’t have a lot to do with revenue, costs and cash. The way these pretend business people, in banking, government, support services etc. all ask for a copy [...]

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Three Essential Elements of Any Business

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In my business (and it’s the same for every other business) there are three essential elements. Without all of them I can’t be in business, or for long, at least. Knowledge I need to know what I’m doing – why customers will buy, how they will buy and how I’ll deliver. Resources Whatever it takes [...]

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With Software Tracking Sales Consultants Bill More Hours

SPPM

Andy is one of those guys – the ones who call to see the CEO, but nobody ever really knows what was said. He’s a management consultant working in the stratosphere of Mergers and Acquisitions.  He doesn’t get involved in the finance.  He helps companies understand the challenge of overcoming clashes of culture when two [...]

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