It’s been called the Silver Tsunami. That’s the number of Baby Boomers who are ready to sell their businesses and move to the next stage of their lives. According to the North Carolina Employee Ownership Center (NCEOC), baby boomers own half of the privately held...
Valentine’s Day is here. I hope that you are planning to share the day with someone special: a spouse, partner, grandparent, child. In my family we have a new addition to shower our love on. My great niece Audrey. So, what about your customers? What is the best way...
We are 33 days into the new year. As business builders with the year opening up before us, there is no better time to seek and find new areas for growth. What can stop us? Getting stuck in the same old routines. Staying in our comfortable lane. And most of all these...
The economic rollercoaster ride continues with no end in sight. Finding the growth your business needs is getting harder. As one colleague recently remarked, “I know there is an iceberg out there. I’m just not sure where it is.” We are all facing headwinds as we try...
It’s costly. It’s common. It gets all of us at one time or another as we build and scale our businesses. This mistake was the biggest and most costly mistake I’ve made in building Octain. Ultimately, it led to the development of the Octain Growth System so I could...
