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Many times when businesses fail, they go out not with a bang, but a whimper. They die a slow death. Many small business owners feel the overwhelm of shrinking revenues and the enveloping advance of competitors, but still refrain from making any dramatic changes until it is too late to achieve a business turnaround. Whether you run a small manufacturing company, professional service firm, or a local retail establishment, there are at least 9 business turnaround strategies you can implement to achieve a successful reversal of your business fortunes. 1. Institute regular strategy sessions The first time you notice your profit margins shrinking and your clients leaving you for your competitors should be a time when you consider reinventing who your company serves, what it does and how it delivers value. 2. Business model innovation While this may be obvious for manufacturers, even very small local businesses face strategic business risk from large scale movements and trends taking pla...

How to Separate

While there may be others, the risk most often thought about by business owners is financial. The fear of failure is not as scary as the fear of financial ruin as a result. That fear stops many from taking the leap and taking a chance on a new business venture. The solution is both simple, and complex: separate your personal credit from your business credit. Why Separation Is Important You can only do so much to insure the success of your business. Planning and preparation, as well as a sound business plan will go along way: however, IRS studies show that as many as 85% of all small businesses fail in the first five years. What's more, an analysis by Dunn & Bradstreet shows that the figures do not go down much in the following years and that up to 70% fail in the first eight years. Of course, no one goes into any business thinking it will fail. The plan is to succeed, but the figures show that even the best-laid plans can fail. Famous and very successful business people all ...