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How Customer Service and Passion Could Save Your Business

Dave Fuller

Sep 8, 20223 min read

How Customer Service and Passion Could Save Your Business

Like most people, at least 62% according to a 2019 study by Hello Products, I don’t like going to the dentist. However, this was my week...

5 Things That Affect Your Performance at Work that You Might Not Be Considering

Dave Fuller

Sep 1, 20224 min read

5 Things That Affect Your Performance at Work that You Might Not Be Considering

Unless you are a manager complaining about your employees' lack of performance, most of us don’t consider our own performance on a...

3 Tips on How To Read an Income Statement

Dave Fuller

Aug 29, 20224 min read

3 Tips on How To Read an Income Statement

Last week I was talking to an owner of a 100 million dollar company who was telling me that he wasn’t sure that he understood his...

Dave Fuller

Aug 18, 20223 min read

Making Work Fun

Fun is not a word that is often spoken in the same sentence as work, however Norm and I were driving down a backroad last week in the...

21 Grants Your Business Might Qualify For

Dave Fuller

Aug 17, 20227 min read

21 Grants Your Business Might Qualify For

With the changes in the economy with inflation and supply chain issues, many business owners are struggling to get a foothold on what...

Why Your Self Image is Key to Improved Performance

Dave Fuller

Aug 11, 20223 min read

Why Your Self Image is Key to Improved Performance

I just about quit. I was almost two hours and 55 km into a 152 km gran fondo cycling event in Penticton a few weeks ago when I felt like...

Dave Fuller

Aug 4, 20222 min read

Pick Up the Phone and Dial for Dollars!

Recently I was training a brand-new sales professional. His job was to find leads for his company but he had never worked in sales...

5 Things to Do When Your Business Is in Trouble

Dave Fuller

Jul 28, 20224 min read

5 Things to Do When Your Business Is in Trouble

“I told myself I wouldn’t cry” said the lady on the other end of the phone as I asked her about her business. Patiently I waited for her...

Why is Canada Ignoring Starvation in Africa?

Dave Fuller

Jul 21, 20222 min read

Why is Canada Ignoring Starvation in Africa?

As a child I was made to eat everything on my plate and was told that wasting food was affecting the starving children in China. Today,...

5 Reasons Why Leaders like You Need A Summer Vacation

Dave Fuller

Jun 30, 20224 min read

5 Reasons Why Leaders like You Need A Summer Vacation

I was about to take a 6 months vacation from my business and my team leaders Rachael and Carmel were a little surprised and perhaps a...

Dave Fuller

Jun 23, 20223 min read

Can You Work Less and Earn More?

In 2014, one of my professors in my MBA program asked the question, “Why are you here?” As he went around the class, many people...

Reduce Your Customers Risk And Increase Your Sales

Dave Fuller

Jun 16, 20223 min read

Reduce Your Customers Risk And Increase Your Sales

“If only our customers would buy more from us” is a resounding phrase that is heard throughout many businesses these days as the demand...

Dave Fuller

Jun 9, 20223 min read

Is Subcontracting Hurting the Home Depot Brand and Yours?

Imagine paying to have someone bring in a washing machine into your house and set it up and then having to fire them before the job was...

Surviving Change with Better Decision Making

Dave Fuller

Jun 2, 20223 min read

Surviving Change with Better Decision Making

My brother Rob recently walked 650km from Galway Ireland to Winchester enroute to Spain. He told me that for days he was trying to decide...

Is Your Business Losing Money Because You don’t Have the Right Tools?

Dave Fuller

May 26, 20224 min read

Is Your Business Losing Money Because You don’t Have the Right Tools?

YOU ARE FIRED! John yelled at me as I was laying on the ground after falling off the roof of the house. John was mad because his saw...

Investing and Business Timing is Everything…. Or is it?

Dave Fuller

May 19, 20223 min read

Investing and Business Timing is Everything…. Or is it?

Peter told me about the latest and greatest idea that he had to improve his business. He was so excited because this new revenue stream...

7 Key Areas to Focus On To Increase Profitability

Dave Fuller

May 12, 20224 min read

7 Key Areas to Focus On To Increase Profitability

Jerry reached out to us because he wanted to get out of his business. In his words, the business was "too stressful and he was tired of...

5 Things You Should Leave Your Successor:

Dave Fuller

May 5, 20222 min read

5 Things You Should Leave Your Successor:

The great resignation is something that people around the world are talking about. Not only are baby boomers retiring, many people who...

Business Challenge of the Week - Manufacturing Insubordination

Dave Fuller

Apr 28, 20222 min read

Business Challenge of the Week - Manufacturing Insubordination

George has a small manufacturing plant that he bought 6 months ago. George bought the company because it had good revenue and came with...

Are You Affected by Business Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Dave Fuller

Apr 21, 20223 min read

Are You Affected by Business Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Jim was visibly upset when he sat down for our coaching session. He told me that the previous day one of his staff had started yelling at...