According to the results of a recent survey, most family-owned companies need family business consultants, primarily because of succession planning or actually the lack of it. And because most companies are considered "family owned", the majority of all companies face the possibility of losing their life's work because they have not kept their eye on the ball when it comes to succession planning.

You may not have thought of the comparison, but it's accurate. Term life insurance is like wetting the bed because it provides immediate relief, but sooner or later you are going to have to get up and do something about it.

Marketing professional services is sometimes done reluctantly. For years, professionals relied on word of mouth advertising, personal relationships and the quality of their service to speak for itself. If you are a service provider and you want to grow your business or even remain at the level you currently enjoy, you need to do more.

Strategic planning for business growth is an absolute necessity if you want to succeed. You may not realize it but not planning is planning by default. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the planning, or not, that you are doing right now.

Small business accountants can provide a great deal more than just general bookkeeping. Choosing the right small business accountant can help you grow your business with their advice in advance of your decisions more efficiently and cost effectively than almost anything else you can do.

Before attempting to tell you, based on my experience, how to develop an effective articles marketing strategy - let me illustrate why it is important that you do so.

As a professional solution provider do you try to "specialize" in everything? Or do you specialize with every person in your niche, providing the services each of them require? Let me explain.

If you have been serving business owners for very long you have come to some important conclusions. You only know what you know, you can only see what you see, and there are other professionals with blind spots in different places than you.

I've heard dozens and dozens of life insurance agents, coaches, and other professional solution providers complain that they have not been able to find their ideal niche. Is that a problem for you too?

Many people think that marketing - the single most important thing any of us can do to increase our business - is supposed to result in new clients.