Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Are-YOU-A-Being-A.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Are-YOU-A-Being-A.html Are you feeling the need to make some major changes in your business to compete an thrive, but feel paralyzed by the challenge of making larges changes? Resist that temptation! The most effective way to get control of your business and the financial results it gives you isn't by making major changes. The most effective way is to make small changes that really matter. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Are-You-Fighting-The-Wrong-Battle.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Are-You-Fighting-The-Wrong-Battle.html Are you fighting hard day in and day out in your business to get sales, get customers, and make money? Your efforts are important, but it's even more important to make sure you aren't putting all those efforts into fighting the wrong battle. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Fail-Quickly-To-Succeed-Fast.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Fail-Quickly-To-Succeed-Fast.html Almost every business owner has a continual supply of new ideas. But most of them never follow through on even one of those ideas. It's like they leave what could be the key to their future success locked up in a closet somewhere - never letting it see the light of day. Over the years, my experience has been that business owners are so reluctant to try out their new ideas because they don't have a simple way of testing them in an easy and low-risk manner. They (wrongly) believe that they would need to make significant changes in how their business runs in order to test an idea. And if that idea proves to be less-than-ideal, they are scared they will have hurt their business. But it doesn't have to be that way. They can apply "quick-failing" tactics to easily and safely test new ideas http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Learning-Business-Lessons-From-Computer-Geeks.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Learning-Business-Lessons-From-Computer-Geeks.html A business lesson from the "computer geeks"! Computer science has a concept that deals with Real Dependencies versus Artificial Dependencies. The ugly-sounding concept attempts to determine where computer systems have been made needlessly complex causing the end result to be more difficult to achieve than it needs to be. Chances are that you can learn a business and marketing lesson from this concept from the "computer geeks" that can help you improve the performance and profit of your business, and make your customers happier. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Increasing-Your-Profit-By-Looking-At-Your-Data.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Small-Business-Consulting/4243/Increasing-Your-Profit-By-Looking-At-Your-Data.html Every business accumulates massive amounts of data that can tell the business owner where the hidden profit and cash flow is in their business. But sadly, most business owners never take the time to think about or examine what the data is telling them.