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Small business evaluation questionnaire from Profits Plus We have visited with a lot of small businesses and asked the owners and managers many questions about their business. When we work with a Main Street program, downtown development authority, business improvement district, chambers of commerce, merchants associations and other similar organizations we ask for the opportunity to learn in advance about the business and the owner or manager. We send a PDF which asks a lot of questions about the business and the person answering the questions. These are not questions that have right or wrong answers, but we think as the questions are answered a person gets a feel of where they are comforable and uncomfortable about themselves and the business. We want to share this opportunity to "self evaluate" with you. This link, Small Business Evaluation Questionnaire, allows you to download the questionnaire. We hope you enjoy many aspects of what you see about yourself and your busines; and that you work to improve the rest. |
MAY 2024
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With over 25 years of frontline experience Tom Shay is America's leading Small Business Management Expert. He's a "Must Have" for your next event.
Small Business
The May Small Business Advisory is titled "Planning for a successful accountant" and is appropriate for many with the April 15 tax deadline having passed.
Did you work with your accountant? Or, did you just give them a bunch of papers and wait to receive a completed tax return?
Successfully working with an accountant requires a partnership. This month's Small Business Advisory gives suggestions of how to make this happen in 2024.
Small Business
We see that many small business owners have too much of a focus on the "top line" of their income statement.
Increasing revenue is great, but it is not a cure all for any challenges your business is facing. And sometimes, incresing revenue can create a challenge.
Who is your customer? Some small businesses have no focus. Their customer is whoever calls or walks in the door.
And some small businesses have determined which customers, in sufficient numbers, they should spend their efforts to attract.
The article of the month shares an old Southern rhyming couplet about business; "The bertter you niche, the more you get rich."
Lean Startup by Eric Reis is our suggested book for May.
As the title suggests, the reader of the book would be someone that is starting their business. However, we see more value than just that.
Perhaps you have been in business for many years. We think this book could give insight to items, and methods, that a small business owner should think about with their business today.
