Accelerated Growth Consulting

Over the past weekend I was listening to a conversation between Scott Hallman (from the Small Business Growth Club)  and Eben Pagan (from Altitude) when Scott made the comment I listed above, “Entrepreneurs stink at optimizing!” When you hear that, how do you feel? Do you nod your head and say, “Yup! He’s on to [...]

Almost every small business I’ve run into has struggled with keeping contact information up to date. So they  tend to avoid doing anything about it (until a new system is put in place and then they have to invest massive amounts of time to verify data and delete old records because nothings been done on [...]

As a small biz leader, you know that getting a website up and keeping it up-to-date with current information is a job. In fact, it often requires so much time and effort from us (or our team) that once we get one up, we tend to keep it up . . .  forever. The problem, [...]

Fortune Magazine has a great article this week on the turnaround at Quiznos. But like most turnaround stories, it’s been marked by a few key strategic decisions–decisions which any small business can learn from. According to the article, since Greg Brenneman took over last year, he’s made a couple of key strategic decisions for Quiznos.  [...]

When I first arrived in Germantown, MD back in 1989, Giant was the "in" grocery store and Safeway was "out". Then, around the turn of the century, Safeway relocated to a new location with a better design, look and feel. Shoppers started migrating. Then a few years later, even with a better looking (and newer) [...]

On Monday, December 17th I went to open my QuickBooks for Mac 2006 edition. A window popped up saying something to the effect, "Can’t download updates, insufficient memory." The screen disappeared and then, right before my eyes, QuickBooks started erasing all of the files on my desktop (a total of six gigabytes of data). Gone! [...]