8/27/10 at 8:20 AM by Tony Lael I recently read a post on LinkedIn that said it takes 6-8 months to form a business relationship via social media forums. In today’s modern age of ‘meet online before ever meeting in person’, it is apparent to me that the business relationships we form are more important than ever. We no longer have the opportunity to build trust through…
6/16/10 at 2:03 PM by The Professor Many vendors and industry pundits promote tools and business concepts as if all IT service companies and solution providers were all the same – as if their concepts for growing a profitable business would work equally well for all companies in the industry. In fact there are at least 10 significantly different business models for IT services companies according to…
4/14/10 at 8:36 PM by Frank Coker CoreConnex is very excited to announce Tigerpaw as our newest channel partner in a growing list of PSA software vendors. Our partners are a world class community of innovators who are passionate about improving the financial health and performance of their customers.
Tigerpaw is a leading developer of end-to-end business automation and service management software. Tigerpaw empowers thousands of businesses to…
4/9/10 at 4:24 PM by Frank Coker Your past performance can be an excellent predictor of your future. With the right analytical tools, you can get a pretty clear picture of a range of potential futures – some good, some bad. Once you understand the range of possibilities, it becomes much easier to choose the actions that lead to the most positive future.
4/5/10 at 6:02 PM by The Professor I would like introduce myself to you. I am a new member of the CoreConnex team: The Professor. I am available to all Corelytics™ Financial Dashboard users to answer questions about managing finances, setting goals, evaluating ratios, understanding benchmarks, using the dashboard and other related topics. Just email your questions to me at theprofessor@coreconnex.com.
My goal is to help you…
3/30/10 at 5:06 PM by Frank Coker Understanding financial ratios is an important part of managing company performance. Large companies have had a long tradition of using ratios as a way to monitor and manage business performance. Small companies have tended to not use ratios because of the work involved in doing the calculations. That is all changing with tools like the Corelytics Financial Dashboard that not…
3/22/10 at 7:14 AM by Ray Makela Dashboards are relatively new to the small business community (under 50 employees), yet the SBA (Small Business Administration) reports small businesses make up at least 50% of the nonfarm GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the United States. The potential for dashboards to help this important sector is just as signficant (maybe more so) as with large enterprises.
The challenge is in being able…
2/4/10 at 12:35 PM by Tony Lael If your business is not evolving, it may mean things are getting too easy for you – watch out, another company is going to sneak past you.
I can’t tell you how energizing it is to work with and around people who are ‘playing to win’ and not ‘playing not to lose’. I used to think that being conservative in…
1/13/10 at 12:33 PM by Tony Lael CoreConnex turns 5 years old today – look Ma, no hands!
Everyone says the 5-year mark is a milestone, but it feels like we’re just getting started.
We have navigated some rough waters over the last 5 years. Most significantly, we went from offering a PSA software solution (ConnexIT) in a direct sales model to a channel sales model offering…
12/14/09 at 7:28 PM by Tony Lael We have all been there – you wake up breathing heavily. You don’t know why you are awake, but you have to get to a computer because you think you may have discovered another way to manipulate your (all powerful) spreadsheet or database views to see things in a different light, learn something new or figure out a problem.
Maybe this urge comes to you while…
