Business & Financial Management
Practical tools and strategies for managing operations, resources, and finances to build sustainable, profitable enterprises.

Don't Allow New Technologies to Impede Communications
With the development of smartphones, text messaging capabilities, email, social media and other tools, it is easier than ever to communicate with people in the next room or around the world. So why has the quality of communication in business declined.
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What Role do You Want to Play in Your Business?
What makes being a business builder, considering all the stress, long hours and headaches associated with the job, worth it. At least partially, it is the freedom and ability to define the role you want to play in your own company.
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Make Your Digital Content Work for You
Content marketing can be likened to the tree that falls in the woods. In both instances, if there's no one around to witness it, it's unclear whether it makes an impact.
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Business Philanthropy Comes in Many Forms
Having too narrow a view of what constitutes a commitment to the community can prevent your business from getting involved in corporate philanthropy. Yet it's possible to contribute to nonprofits not only through monetary donations, but with the gift of your time and/or your talents.
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Run a Business Operation Guided by Values
Your business plan is probably one of the most important documents you will create for your company. It is valuable because it is not just a few pages that you keep in a forgotten binder on a shelf.
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Before You Market, Build Your Brand
You may have noticed a common theme while reading the posts on The Covenant Group blog - the idea that every aspect of your business is interconnected with all the other functions in the organization. The success of each department...
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Who Mentors You?
Business professionals fill many roles, some where they are the teacher and some where they are the student. On occasion, they may assume both positions in a single relationship, teaching a colleague about one area of expertise while learning from...
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What's Missing in Your Business Plan?
Type "write a business plan" into a search engine and you will get millions of results. If you merely base one of the foundational documents for your business on a few models pulled from the internet, however, you may neglect...
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Write Tweets That Will Solicit a Response
Using social media as a marketing activity can often feel like you have arrived late and alone to a crowded event: There is no lack of people to talk to, but it may be difficult to cut in on conversations...
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Align Business Decisions With Your Values Every Day
Although the News of the World phone-hacking scandal came to a head more than one year ago, the story continues to serve as a prime example of what can go wrong when a business' operations become too far removed from...
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How LinkedIn Can Benefit Financial Advisors
LinkedIn's millions of users leverage the professional social networking site to share their content with business-minded peers and connect with decision-makers of companies they might never get to meet in the "real world. " Indeed, an infographic from Imbue Marketing...
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Prepare for the Shift in CEO-Employee Relations
Increasingly, interactions between CEOs, business owners and their employees have switched from a top-down order of command to a more collaborative, symbiotic relationship. Communications technology has been a main driver of this trend, as email, social media and the near-ubiquitous...
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Should You Specifically Market Your Financial Services to Women?
Recently, there has been an increasing amount of discourse centered around whether it's necessary - and indeed appropriate - to specifically market financial services to women. In my opinion, you are missing a significant opportunity if you are ignoring the purchasing power of women.
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Be A Millionaire Advisor
Consider the reasons you decided to become an independent financial advisor. Did you want to be your own boss.
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Scaffolding Yourself to Success
Like there aren’t enough hours in the day and you never have enough time to do the really important or really enjoyable work. I would like to offer three tactics to help you avoid such situations and then raise some...
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