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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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What’s Your Time Worth? Why Pricing Matters

N2Growth Blog

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. The delusion is that market share is the “be all and end all” of business success. The new economy doesn’t operate that way.

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10 Ways to Improve Service Industry Operations

Strategy Driven

If you want to see diners coming back to your restaurant every time, then you have no choice but to improve your operations. Technology has improved operational efficiency by reducing workload, eliminating paperwork, streamlining services, and ultimately increasing sales. Here are a few tips on how to go about it.

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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. To be unaware of, or to discount changing environments would be a leadership mistake. Little more than a decade of web brilliance and we have an enterprise generating $38 billion in revenues.

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9 Steps For Creating The Best Odds For Success

Tanveer Naseer

You should also know that this year brings with it new taxation and new regulations that may add expenses and affect the way you operate your business. — and what you need to do externally — with customers, marketing campaigns, and so on. Start with a post-mortem of how your business operated last year.

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The Lowdown on Influencer Marketing and How You Might Use It for Your Restaurant

Strategy Driven

As the owner or manager of a restaurant, it’s natural that you’re flat out looking at many of your business’s everyday operational components. However, to achieve tremendous growth and turn your restaurant into the powerhouse you hope it to be, it’s vital to market the brand and its wares. Understanding Influencer Marketing.

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