by Carol Frank | Dec 29, 2012 | Business Advice
While face-to-face negotiations are always better for closing business deals, email negotiations are on the rise. Researchers have found (and common sense tells us) that email negotiations lead to less satisfying agreements and an even greater rate of failure to reach...
by Carol Frank | Dec 29, 2012 | Business Advice
When it comes to selling or refinancing your company, many pet industry owners have questions about the benefits of using an M&A advisor, also known as an investment banker (assuming they have the appropriate FINRA designation). The reasons are simple. An advisor...
by Carol Frank | Nov 29, 2012 | Business Advice
Carol Frank with guest Pam Adams Business liability insurance saved my company from bankruptcy. Several years ago a competitor sued me for the sole purpose of putting my company, Avian Adventures, out of business. The charges had been trumped up and falsified; yet I...
by Carol Frank | Nov 29, 2012 | Human Resources
By Bryan Williamson and Carol Frank Are you finding it difficult to keep your employees motivated? Do you feel that your people’s morale has been reaching new lows? If so, you’re not alone. Among the many challenges of a tough economy, most managers find one of the...
by Carol Frank | Oct 27, 2012 | Business Advice
Almost two years ago to the day, I wrote one of my first blogs about listening to an economist at the Denver CEO Forum. Dr. Beaulieu, Executive Director of the Institute for Trends Research, had many predictions about how we should invest/spend our money in the...
