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Annual Business Goal Setting: Clockwork Program Insights – Part 2

by Donna Lim | Sep 21, 2020 | Business Planning

As most of you know, September is a planning month for me. In my last blog post and newsletter I shared my process for planning the financial aspects of my business. This time I’d like to go into the other types of goals I have for my business. Again, I hope this...

Annual Business Goal Setting: Strategies & Reflections – Part 1

by Donna Lim | Sep 4, 2020 | Business Planning, Small Business, Tips and Tricks

It’s that time of year when I start to reflect on what we’ve accomplished this year and how far we are from our goals. I created and set most of our 2020 goals up last fall long before the Covid pandemic. Like most of you, I have had to adjust my goals to fit...

Fix This Next: Building a Legacy with the Fifth Level Principles

by Donna Lim | Aug 22, 2020 | Business Planning, Small Business

Community Continuance – Do you clients defend, support, and help your business? Let’s face it, we have a highly charged society at the moment. Emotions and tensions are high. Let say you have some false things written about your company and it hits Facebook and goes...

Building a Firm Foundation for Impact and Legacy with Fix This Next

by Donna Lim | Jul 23, 2020 | Tips and Tricks

I have to say I absolutely loved chapter 6 of Mike Michalowicz’s book – Fix This Next. He called it a “musical bridge.” He makes a point to say that once we have shored up the first 3 levels: Sales, Profit and Order; we are going to transition to the last 2 levels of...

Fix This Next: Third Level, Building Order and Redundancy for a Self-Sustaining Business

by Donna Lim | Jul 9, 2020 | Business Planning, Organize

I’ll begin with two quotes from the book that really resonated with me. “You are not a business owner if the business owns you.” And “Stop doing for your business, and start designing your business to run without you, permanently.” That is the goal – isn’t it. To have...

Fix This Next: Second Level, Strengthening Profit with Profit First

by Donna Lim | Jun 27, 2020 | Profit First, Small Business, Tips and Tricks

I have heard this more than once in my life – I have reinvested my profits back into the business. Mike said it another way that I have been pondering. A reinvestment of “profits” is an expense. Period. I’ve decided that even though we may show a profit on the Profit...