The Profit
by Abe Sherman I’m not a big fan of reality television, but there is one show that every business owner should be watching. The Profit, which debuted last fall, stars Marcus Lemonis, a billionaire investor who is called in to save ailing companies. Regardless of the products the company sells, his approach is to make sure the three P’s [...]
New Sales Report!
By Abe Sherman We are excited to launch the new Balance to Buy™ Sales report. The new Sales report is an extremely comprehensive view of your sales data, which you will be able to run Daily, Weekly or Monthly. Clients were asking us to design a sales report that they would receive automatically each day showing sales from the day [...]
New Period to Period Reports
by Abe Sherman There are some exciting new reporting capabilities already available and others that will be available soon in Balance to Buy™. The one that I’ll share today is the Period-to-Period option which was recently added to the Summary Detail Reports. Period reports let you compare productivity over long periods of time, in addition to the 12 month-rolling data [...]
March of the Millennials
By Abe Sherman At first I was going to describe it as a wave. Then I was going to use the image of a Tsunami, a high wall of water moving onshore crushing everything in its path. But “Tsunami” would be a pejorative in this context since there won’t be any destruction, only opportunity: Massive opportunity at that. We have [...]
The 60’s, 70’s & 80’s
By Abe Sherman The discussion at one of our Plexus Performance Group meetings this spring was about the book, The Age Curve, by Kenneth W. Gronbach. The author describes the size of each of the five living generations and the impact each one has had, is having, or will have on the marketplace. Coincidentally, we also had discussions at two [...]
A Game of Margins
By Abe Sherman Other than circumnavigating closed roads, dodging fallen trees and downed wires and waiting in line for gas, for me this past week has been about waiting on a national election. Watching various news channels as the results came in (yes, our power finally came back on at 3 pm on Election Day!), I was most interested in [...]