It’s official. The March edition of the ASCPA Magazine (Arizona Society of CPAs) has announced that I am the recipient of the 2010 ASCPA Public Service Award. The award can only be “won” once and I am honored to have been chosen as their award winner in 2010. To read more visit the ASCPA.

In order to succeed in business, it is important to have a sound business plan. Without proper planning, a business may fail and this is unfortunate. The utilization of tactical planning to compliment strategic goals, is a vital step towards success.  It is particularly important for small business owners to establish tactical planning goals to help achieve [...]

When you own or are starting a business, you need to implement benchmarking (aka Best Practices). This process helps to determine how your business is performing against your internal standards as well as your competition. Doing so will help you assess how effective or ineffective your business is performing in operations, customer services, sales, or [...]

A benchmark is an internal or external measure of how your business is performing. Benchmarking is also described as Best Practices and/or Ratios. Benchmarking is the most effective way to monitor and track the progress of how your business is doing, both good and bad. When you take a look at how you can make [...]

My husband is one of those people who achieves every goal he sets. He rarely encounters an obstacle that gets in the way of his goals. For years I was envious of his easy success. But I have come to accept that it is his mindset. And I’m changing mine. Recently I submitted an application [...]

Does this sound familiar, “I don’t have the money to hire an administrative assistant (or insert other service provider here such as PR expert, advertising agency, etc.)” It is the trap of the small business owner. You are so busy doing the work in your business that you are not working on your business. The [...]

Join me tomorrow, October 21st (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. PST as I join my friend Dave Lindbeck on this radio show to discuss business plans. Listen here: Talk About Success.

About nine months ago I created a Mastermind group. Even though I have a business coach, I wanted to be held accountable by someone in addition to my coach – it is too easy to tell one person you did not reach your goal, but harder to tell two or more people the same! Also, [...]

Whether in your business or personal life, I’m assuming you have all thought about creating a budget at one point. Many people set limits on how much money they will spend each month on eating out, entertainment, etc. Businesses are doing a lot of this too. A friend of mine recently shared with me that [...]

Are you an entrepreneur or do you prefer to be an employee? Not everyone has the traits to be an entrepreneur and some folks don’t make good employees. In college a few of my friends had the idea that someday they would own their own business. I didn’t think I was the entrepreneur type. It [...]