In Pursuit of Profit
Seeking Profit So you started a services business and it is going well. You have a great team, you have clients, your overall brand seems to be resonating. Hooray! Right? You drum up the deals, the business and the engagements, then send your people out to do great things for your clients. There are good…
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That time my Bay Area Bank Failed
RIP Tamalpais Bank, 1991-2010 Gone but not quite forgotten. Born into the most boring and stable of decades, eventually succumbing to bank failure as one more victim enabler of the dodgy real estate loans of the financial crisis. I arrived in America about the same time Tamalpais Bank was opening. Through the 1990s, I would…
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Negative Cash Flow across two Continents
“You make most of your money in a bear market, you just don’t realize it at the time.” Shelby Cullom Davis, American Investment firm founder, 1909 – 1994 We all remember the first bear market with our own skin in the game. I did not own a single stock, index or mutual fund at the…
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Shopify California Sales Tax Issue
The Problem – Shopify California Sales Tax Collection This post originally appeared on abigailgorton.com on 12/06/17It picked up good responses over the years so it is being republished here. When Goods are sold online, from a business within California to an address in California, the State “accepts” sales tax from the merchant in two different…
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Put that in your Sales Pipeline and Track it!
This post originally appeared on abigailgorton.com on 01/08/12. Technologies have advanced, but Sales will always be Sales Most of our businesses embark on a new set of goals each year. But do we know if we are on track to achieve them? I went to a conference a year ago where I truly got the…
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