By my good friend Ron Finklestein

How does a successful person grow a successful company? It's such a provocative question that it prompted me to do some research. Despite the bad news we so often hear about businesses closing or moving, I found some encouraging news. After interviewing and working with many small business owners, common trends began to emerge regarding what they did to be successful.
There are a total of fourteen principles and the successful people implement most, of not all of these principles in their business: attitude, sales, business strategy, marketing, information technology, risk taking, process improvement, company culture, work-life balance, customer service, finance and budget, general advice, discipline and training.

For home based businesses the specific principles that are important are: attitude, sales, business strategy, marketing, risk taking, customer service, finance and budget, general advice, discipline and training.

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