12/18/09 at 1:55 PM by Tony Lael If you have read Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish , CEO of Gazelles, Inc. you know that using the Do The Right Things Right Model is a critical habit that requires well organized data to see your business accurately.
Doing the right things and then making sure you do the right things right is such a simple concept that works - most of us don’t think it can be this easy.
If…
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 scanning…
10/3/09 at 11:52 PM by Tony Lael Start blogging fast and easy with Posterous – just send in an email, that’s it! We emailed our first blog post about SMB Nation 2009 today.
This is really making us think about how we stay in touch with our community of the increasing number of companies in the IT Solution Provider industry that are using the Corelytics Financial Dashboard.
If you have…
5/6/09 at 10:49 AM by Tony Lael As described in The E-Myth – Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About IT by Michael Gerber, all of today’s small business owners are playing three roles.
Entrepreneur - envisions the future, but lacks execution
Manager - organizes everything, but forgets the big picture
Technician – gets work done, but to the detriment of all else
Each personality or person in…
2/17/09 at 4:59 PM by Bob Taylor Everyone is told they need to set goals. Whether they are for personal or business reasons, the important thing (aside from having goals) is to have a way to track performance against those goals – measuring performance is the only true way to know if improvement has been made. To be meaningful, goals need to be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant…
11/24/08 at 11:34 AM by Tony Lael A variety of accounting packages are in use by VARs, MSPs and IT service companies the world over.
In light of the recent economic issues showing themselves in various global markets we thought it would be appropriate to remind owners of IT service companies to focus on the financial numbers … and find out which systems companies are using the…