by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant Hiring: It all starts with the right process. “I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not strategies.” – Lawrence Bossidy GE “I hire people brighter than me and then I get out […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant Part 1 One of the more pressing problems that small business owners have is finding, hiring, and most importantly keeping the right people. This has been an issue with small business for years, and it seems that it is an issue that never really gets solved. I have done some […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant Well it’s happening again. Contractors are getting busy. Despite the pandemic, contractors who come to your house, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, carpenters, painters, you name them, they are all very busy right now. People have been taking advantage of the warm weather to get work around their homes done while they […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant What kind of leader are you? No matter if you have three employees or 30, or 300, your job is to not only lead them, but to be the best leader you can be. How about you? Are you a great leader? Do you inspire your people? Recently, I read […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant To grow your business, you have to not only be better than your competition, but you also have to be the best you can be. No matter what your business is. Whether you are a landscaper, or a plumber, or a contractor, or you own a small business, you have […]
My mother always says there is a way, no matter what the challenge, no matter how steep the hill you have to climb, there is always a way. And that is pretty much what we all face in these dark times of COVID-19. We have to find a way to not only survive, but to keep our businesses growing…
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant You have to be better than anyone else right? Isn’t that what makes business great? That extra little thing, that special thing that makes you stand out from the rest of the crowd. Often it’s not just the product or service but what doing business with that certain company does […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant You have to be better than anyone else right? Isn’t that what makes business great? That extra little thing, that special thing that makes you stand out from the rest of the crowd. Often it’s not just the product or service but what doing business with that certain company does […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant No matter what business you’re in, the lifeblood of that business is your customer base. It’s pretty obvious that without customers you have no business. The reason you got in business in the first place was to serve your customers. This means that as a business owner you have to […]
by Dan Beaulieu Business consultant What do Hewlett Packard, Disney, Hyatt, MTV, CNN, Microsoft, Burger King and GE all have in common? They all started in periods of economic recessions. The ideas for these companies came from periods of great uncertainty, times when the world, especially the economic world seemed unsafe. Does this sound familiar? […]