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Peer Benchmarking Review Groups for Skateboard Shop Owners and Operators

There Aren’t Any Tricks To Success Even in a downturn, it’s all about hard work, wise planning, good decisions and making the most of any opportunity. Take longboarding. There have been newspaper stories about how onetime skateboarders who thought they’d outgrown the sport saw longboards in action—and realized what they’d been missing. Now those prodigal skateboarders are part...

Peer Benchmarking Review Groups for Service Station Owners and Operators

It Seems Like The Squeeze Has Been On Forever Every time gas prices spike, it’s the service station owner who gets an earful about it. But somehow it never seems to be the gas station owner who ends up with much of the money—even when gas was hitting (and passing) $4 a gallon, there were plenty of stories about gas stations closing because the aggravation just wasn’t worth it....

Peer Mentoring for Roof Contractors

Peer Consulting for Roof Contractors—A New Kind Of Support Team! They’re not throwing up houses as quickly as they used to, and it might be a while before new homes grow like Topsy across the landscape. What’s a roofing contractor to do? On the other hand, all of the houses around right now have roofs—and over the next few years, plenty of those roofs will need replacing, or...

Peer Benchmarking for Real Estate Agents

Peer Benchmarking Allows Real Estate Agents to Bring the House Down Are you focused on tactical activities, such as taking a listing, setting up showings, following up on home closing, creating flyers and the details involved in real estate transactions that you may be neglecting a crucial responsibility? Few Realtors measure the effectiveness of their efforts or explore proven...

Peer Mentoring for Pressure Washing Services

Peer Consulting For Pressure Washing Services Will Boost Your Profits! If you own a pressure washing service, you’re used to high pressure—5,000 psi of pressure, even—but to keep your business thriving in this environment, you’ve had to deal with other kinds of pressure. There’s the need to differentiate yourself from other pressure washers; the need to make the most of any...

Peer Consulting for Physical Therapists

Peer Mentoring For Physical Therapists Will Keep Your Business In Shape! Even with the future of American health care in flux, there’s no doubt that physical therapists will have their hands full well into the foreseeable future. The only question is how lucrative that future might be! How do you balance doing the best job for your patients with making sure your physical therapy...

Peer Mentoring for Photo Finishing Firms

Peer Consulting For Photo Finishing Firms Will Keep You Fixed On Your Profit Targets! In these days of digital photography and Photoshop, the casual photographer might not have all that much to do with photo finishing anymore, except when it comes to prints. But then there are the photographers who do their best work the traditional way—and who know that there still isn’t a digital...

Peer Consulting for Patio, Porch and Deck Firms

Peer Mentoring For Patio, Porch And Deck Firms Will Boost Your Profits! Money is still tight these days, but even in this economy there are plenty of people who’ve decided to make the most of where they’re living now. That means they’re still thinking about additions that won’t break the bank—which in turn means that there’s work for firms involved in patio building and deck...

Peer Benchmarking Review Groups for Opticians and Optometrists

Spotting The Opportunities Is Harder Than It Used To Be, Isn’t It? When it comes to severe downturns, people tend to skimp on the basics, like eyecare. That visit to the eye doctor can wait six more months. The new glasses or contacts will just have to wait until there’s enough money. And even when there is enough money, there probably won’t be enough for those really nice frames....

Peer Benchmarking Review Groups for Quick Oil Change Shops

Trying To Maintain Your Business? In this day and age, you won’t find too many people changing their own oil. There are plenty of people out there who wouldn’t know how to check their oil if their life depended on it, much less drop the oil pan and actually drain the stuff out of the car. But just because they can’t do it doesn’t mean they’ll get anybody else to do it, either....