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Service Pricing Strategy: 3 Steps to Finding your Average Billable Hours Target
So how many hours a year can you realistically bill if you have a growing practice? What should be your target billable rate? Have you set your own goal for billable hours this year?

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Ten Steps To Effective Meetings
Meetings are vital for business. But only if they are run effectively and efficiently. Here are ten straight-forward steps to help you get the very best from them, and those who show up!
“Zig Zag” Your Way to Success!
Although we'd prefer everything go perfectly straight from beginning to end, our journey to success seldom turns out that way.
And Just What Does That Mean?
Any & all definitions can be found at the USPTO but I thought it'd be nice to take it a step further and put these explanations in easy to understand language. The material in quotes is straight from the USPTO's mouth while the text underneath is straight from mine.
The "100% Commissions Motivate" Myth
There's a good reason why over 97 percent of progressive companies and service industry firms that I've consulted, use a form of a "hungry base plus commission" compensation plan for their sales professionals, rather than employing a straight commission pay structure. The reason is simple, straight commission pay plans demotivate many more sales professionals than they motivate. Straight commissions reward a specific type of sales professional--the top three to five percent of the sales professionals in the top 20 percent bracket.

VAT - When 15% should be 17.5%
VAT is one of the taxes that is mostly ignored and certainly misunderstood. A simple statement by the Chancellor about a rate change from 17.5% to 15% should be straight-forward to implement... shouldn't it???
Breakfast on the run.
Picture this, your alarm screams at you at 5 or 6am. You think to yourself you’ve got a full on day ahead and need to get to work NOW. You skip breakfast and just grab a coffee as you run out of the door or at one of those drive throughs on the way to work. You get to work and are straight into it. Ten o’clock arrives and you are fading fast, your energy is below low, you can’t think straight and you are ready to eat the first thing that walks past you.
Brokers, Dealers, Private Lenders, and Venture Capital
A broker is defined as anyone who makes securities transactions for others. (The exception to this is a bank.) A dealer is defined as someone who buys and sells securities for their own account, through a broker or otherwise. Most entrepreneurs are looking for start-up capital and for someone else to raise capital for them on a straight commission, with no up-front fees. Only registered broker dealers, and Bona Fide employees, can legally solicit/sell securities for a company on straight commission, with no up-front fees. They always charge an up-front retainer, sometimes called due-diligence fees, before commencing. This fluctuates depending on the complexity of the transactions. Most brokers/dealers avoid startup and early stage companies. A Bona Fide employee cannot be paid commission from the sale of securities.
Non-linear Career Progression
When told that the ‘shortest distance between two points is a straight line’, this familiar maxim has an, inherent, link to the topic of avoidance. A straight line helps us to avoid wasting time, digressive conversations, subtle references to a certain attraction and political malfeasance. The straight-line reference is a way of avoiding behavioral meandering so as to stay focused on what’s in front of you. In the business sector, the phrase ‘cradle to grave’ contract was used to describe the linear progression of a career path. Career advancement reflected a climb up a ladder of a silo in which professional perspectives were shaped by the boundaries of that narrow focus.
The Straight Line to Mediocrity
I came out of Business School believing that all business success was really a straight line. The idea that we can create a straight line to success is 20th century thinking.
The Storm We Know
We all know there are storms around our businesses. We can name them and describe them. But how often are we looking them straight on?
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