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Read our blog on various topics such as strategic planning, accounting, and operations that you will find informative to help your business.

Check out the article that details our exclusive Half-Retirement Program. Learn how you can keep your business and existing income while working just half the time!

Also, see how you can apply the Marine Corps’ unique leadership strategies to manage your business. This blog lets you in on how the Marines choose and train their leaders.

Other articles include: how to diagnose what’s wrong (and what’s right) with your business, tips on using Facebook for marketing, how to increase employee morale, boost  productivity, recruiting, and using social media.

Do you know what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is and it’s importance in digital marketing? If you don’t and are not utilizing it, you could be hurting your business. We came across an easy-to-understand short – but to the point – article that will explain how you can boost your SEO rankings to increase traffic to your website that in turn, increases your revenue.

Have you ever underbid a project? If you do, should you eat the cost or ask for more? Learn how to navigate this debacle.

You have dedicated, hardworking employees. You want to keep them, right? The recent “Great Resignation” has made many business owners nervous losing their best people. We found an article about 4 ways to retain your top performers.

While you want to keep your best workers, you want to hire the best as well. There are two articles that will give you insight about how to attract the best employees and what red flags you need to watch out for during the interview process.

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Why Hire a Small Business Consultant?

Why hire a small business consultant? Why not? If your reason has to do with time or money, then my response is you can’t afford to be without one. In today’s very competitive business world hiring a small business consultant…
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Half-Retirement 6-Step Program

Thinking about retiring and selling your business? Are you afraid you may not have enough income to carry you through retirement? If so, don’t sell. Half-retire with Paradigm Strategies’ new Half-Retirement 6-Step Program! Half-Retirement© is a new and exciting  program that…
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Marine Corps Leadership Basics for Business

The US Marine Corps is famous for its world-class leadership program.  When it comes to building leaders, no one does it better. And these Marine Corps leadership basics strategies can be utilized for business owners – like you. Throughout my…
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Step Six of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps.  The final step in our program is Enjoying Half-Retirement©. Now that you have completed steps 1 through 5 it is time for you to begin your Half-Retirement© journey.  To do so you…
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Step Five, Phase Four of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps.  The fifth step in our program is Setting the Autopilot.  Phase four of this step is Management by Walking Around. Management by Walking Around (MBWA) is a style of business management.  It…
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Step Five, Phase Three of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps.  The fifth step in our program is Setting the Autopilot.  Phase three of this step is Redesigning Your Financial Controls. Financial controls are the procedures, policies, and means by which a company…
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Step Five, Phase Two of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps.  The fifth step in our program is Setting the Autopilot.  Phase two of this step is Manage by Flash Report. A Flash Report is a measure of change.  It’s a one-page report…
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Step Five, Phase One of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps.  The fifth step in our program is Setting the Autopilot.  Phase one of this step is KPIs for Everything. Profit is not a manageable activity, it is the result of activities that…
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Step Four of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps.  The fourth step in our program is Re-Leverage Your Assets. Every business has under-utilized assets. These assets include your business model, sales and marketing, finance, operations, R&D, and management/HR.  The most effective…
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Step Three, Phase Four of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps. The third step in our program is Untangling the Owner from the Business.  Phase 4 of this step is Measure, Assess & Refine. Prior to using Tiered Delegation™ you must be able…
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Step Three, Phase Three of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps. The third step in our program is Untangling the Owner from the Business.  Phase 3 of this step is Tiered Delegation™. Tiered Delegation™ is a 5-part delegation process that allows you to…
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Step Three, Phase Two of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps. The third step in our program is Untangling the Owner from the Business.  Phase 2 of this step is FEVER Delegation™. FEVER Delegation™ is a tool to help you better organize tasks…
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Step Three, Phase One of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps. Step three in our program is “Untangling the Owner from the Business.”  Phase 1 of this step is Finding Your Picasso Work™. What are the qualities of Picasso?  Only Picasso can touch…
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Step Two of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps. The second step is to Adopt a Half-Retirement© Mindset.   In order to get the most from Half-Retirement© some old mindsets NEED to go.  You MUST make room for the new Half-Retirement© mindsets. …
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Step One of Half-Retirement©

Our Half-Retirement© program consists of 6 results-oriented steps. The first step is to Create Magnetism.   You cannot Half-Retire© without a solid commitment to make it happen.  It is much easier to have a strong positive force “pulling” you towards Half-Retirement©…
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Don’t Sell Your Business – Half-Retire!

Thinking about retiring and selling your business? Are you afraid you may not have enough income to carry you through retirement? Don’t sell your business – Half-retire! Half-Retirement© is a new and exciting program that Paradigm Strategies now offers.  It…
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Growth Planning Post COVID-19 Shutdown

With the opening of the U.S. economy the month in most states (due to the Coronavirus), now is a great time for small- to mid-sized business owners to begin drafting their business recovery strategy following the post COVID-19 business shutdown.…
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9 Hot Facebook Marketing Tips

I have been on Facebook for a while now. One thing that seems to mystify me – as well as my business consulting clients – is how to effectively market your business on Facebook. Yesterday I came across this article…
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The Worst Things to Say When You Fire Someone

As a business consultant I have found that one of the most stressful events my client have to endure is letting someone go. Firing an employees is not an easy thing – for both you and the employee. The following…
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5 Ways to Keep Your Top Performers

With the economy starting to turn around many companies are starting to hire again. But this more active job market also means that your top performers may be considering moving on – if they are not happy. So how do…
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11 Red Flags You Should Avoid When Hiring

With the economy starting to turn-around I am beginning to see small businesses hiring again. One of the keys to hiring good talent is to avoid hiring bad talent. But how do you do this? This article does a great…
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How to Diagnose What’s Wrong With Your Business

I recently came across this article, “How to Diagnose What’s Wrong With Your Business.” It does a nice job of helping small business owners determine what’s wrong – as well as right – with their business. If your business is…
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What to Do When You Underbid a Project

As a business consultant I am regularly speaking with business owners on bidding work. One of the top areas we talk about is what to do if you underbid a project. I recently came across this quick article that provides…
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5 Reasons People Resist Change

The new year tends to bring about thoughts of change. Most small business owners assess the prior year and then begin thinking about various ways to improve their business in the coming year. Some even take the step of creating…
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The Top 9 Morale Destroyers

Now that the holidays are over and the new year has begun it is a great time to focus on improving company morale. By developing rapport and building relationships with your people you can make a significant impact on employee…
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7 Ways To Improve Your Productivity

We are all busy. Many of us are multi-tasking and yet we still don’t seem to get the things we want to get accomplished at the end of the day. There has to be a solution to this? There is!…
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Year-end Tax Tips for Small Businesses

With the new year just around the corner, here is a great article on 6 Year-end Tax Tips for Small Businesses. Although time is limited, you should take advantage of at least one of these tax tips this year to…
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7 Small Business Recruiting Myths

With the economy looking to pick up in 2012 many small business owners are contemplating hiring in the new year. If you are considering hiring next year I think you will find this easy-to-read article relevant. It discusses the 7…
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Small Business Confidence Is Up

I just finished reading an article in Businessweek regarding small business owner confidence. It seems that for the third straight month small business owners’ confidence is up. The survey found that hiring intentions has climbed and projected sales has improved.…
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Overcoming Procrastination

One of the biggest obstacles to business planning is getting started. Procrastination can be a huge issue for many small business owners. In my organizational behavior class that I teach for the University of Phoenix I share a great article…
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Plan Now for the New Year!

December is a great month to plan for the new year. Business planning does not have to be a chore. An effective plan can be easily completed in a couple of hours and need only be one to two pages…
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