Big Business Thinking

Here are some hand picked links for anyone coming to the Clean Show this June, or for anyone at all who would like to get ready to visit New Orleans!
 
Leave a comment to share your suggestions, feedback and tips for a great New Orleans experience.
 
 
Clean Show
 
Official Site
http://www.cleanshow.com/default.asp
 
Coin Laundry Association Information
http://www.coinlaundry.org/resources/seminars.cfm
 
CLA Official Hotel
http://www.astorneworleans.com/
 
 
New Orleans Local Press
 
Times-Picuyane [...]

In this month’s new column in The Journal, I offered my readers a free detailed outline to help you write a business plan for your store.  If you would like to receive a copy, simply email me using the Contact page.  I will send it to you by email shortly thereafter!  Thanks for reading, and for [...]

Nation’s Restaurant News recently reported that Chipotle Mexican Grill, a fast-casual chain with over $1B of annual sales of sort-of make-your-own burritos, is raising prices by 6%, having already raised prices 4% earlier this year.  Look at this quote from Steve Ells, the company’s founder and CEO:
We do not predict that there will be no [...]

Our nation’s retailers (not to mention our car companies) have almost universally announced terrible October sales.  Except for Wal-Mart.  Here’s a snippet from a New York Times story that immediately caught my attention:
All of the factors that analysts have identified as hurting October sales at most retailers — unemployment, declining stock prices, the credit crisis, [...]

I have been in the corporate finance world my entire career, and I find it shocking to realize that means about 20 years.  This is an unusual time, and I believe it is only the fourth inning or so.  Let’s talk about you and your store.
I am not an investment advisor.  Consider these ideas me [...]

Regardless of one’s specific business, before you can decide how to most efficiently price your services, you need to know who your customers are, where they come from, and why they patronize your business.
You must understand the dynamics impacting both your customers and your expenses. You cannot intelligently pick a revenuemodel without knowing what your [...]

Thanks for visiting my new website and blog.  There’s a subscribe tool on your right (if you’re at my site, of course, and not at your reader) and I intend to have an active engagement with my readers on how to think big in your own business.  I welcome your comments, suggestions, ideas, and yes, [...]