Tag Archives: business financial help

Instant or Deferred Gratification?

By Paul Foster

There can be a tendency to celebrate short term business success too soon. Let’s say your business has a good month and you make a nice profit. Should you take a bonus? Should you reward yourself right away? Continue reading

Managing Your Interest Rate Risk

By Paul Foster

It seems ‘the crowd’ is assuming that interest rates will remain low for a few more years, but let’s look at the investing side of the equation… Continue reading

Pricing Strategy

By Paul Foster

Are you pricing to the 10% of customers that are never happy? You tend to hear the 10% crowd loud and clear when they complain, but forget that the other 90% are happy. Continue reading

Increase Profits by Learning to Say ‘NO’

By Paul Foster

Some business owners have trouble saying NO for various reasons, and this often costs them financially. Learn how to increase profits by saying, ‘NO’! Continue reading

A Simple Solution to Small Business Cash Management Problems

By Paul Foster

I was talking yesterday with a client who I consider to be the best at collecting money as a small business owner. Quite a few years ago he actually went to jail trying to collect money from one customer because he tipped a desk over on him! Continue reading

Motivation in Business

By Paul Foster

Time and time again I discover success is less about what you know and more about the actions you take. The option of doing nothing is easy, it’s comfortable and it is perceived to be the least risky. This article features some proactive ways to eliminate the option of doing nothing. Continue reading

Improving Business Owner to Banker Communications – 3 Tips

By Paul Foster

Bankers speak one language – business owners speak a different one – when they get together without a translator, the result is usually frustration. Here are some tips accumulated over 30 years of being a translator, (aka: accountant and small business advisor). Continue reading