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Family Business Blog

The Family Business Blog [short for "web log"] is our mini-journal about Family Business Experts. It lets you know...

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Help With Factoring

Getting help with factoring - a smart finance strategy for family businesses

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Honor Flight

Honor Flight is organized as a volunteer organization to fly WW II veterans to Washington DC to visit the World War II Memorial.

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employee typology

Employee typology can be a significant factor in determing the success of a family business work team.

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Compliance Sarbanes Oxley Affects Family Businesses

Compliance Sarbanes Oxley is affecting family businesses. Learn what publicly traded ones have to do. And learn how non-public ones can benefit.

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Summary of Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002

Summary of Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002 summarizes the roughly 1000 sections of this massive legislation.

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Don Schwerzler Interview

Don Schwerzler founded Family Business Institute, Inc. in the early 80’s. Headquartered in Atlanta, it became the very first multi-disciplined, full service resource for family-owned businesses.

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Outsourcing payroll processing - four benefits

Outsourcing is an excellent family business strategy. Confidentiality is just one of the four major benefits of outsourcing payroll processing.

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Community Foundations: Make Family Foundations a Reality

Community foundations provide an umbrella under which to develop your family foundation without the red tape, hassles and cost. 18 questions answered in this interview with a CF executive director.

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Advisory Board Benefits Family Business

An advisory board made up of experienced outsiders brings a fresh perspective to problems and opportunities that face both the family and the family business.

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Death Tax

Death Tax has serious consequences for family businesses

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Family Business Institute

The original Family Business Institute is Atlanta based and founded by Don Schwerzler. The Family Business Institute is internationally recognized for providing solutions to family business problems

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Start an Affiliate Program

Start an affiliate program - create a new revenue stream for your family business

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Chaos Busters

Chaos Busters - The Management Guide will make your work easier and more effective. Ideal for improving your organization's performance, creating a mission statement or doing SWOT and GAP analysis

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Chaos Busters for Senior Management

Chaos Busters - A Management Guide for senior executives - work easier and be more effective. Ideal for improving your organization's performance, creating a mission statement or doing SWOT

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Chaos Busters for Middle Managers

Chaos Busters - A Management Guide for mid-level executives. Work easier and be more effective. Ideal for improving organizational performance, creating a mission statement or SWOT Analysis

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Shareholder Agreement - An Essential Tool

The shareholder agreement is an essential estate planning tool. Discover why it's needed and some of the problem situations it can help solve.

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Estate Planning Still Needed Despite 2001 Legislation

Estate planning is still needed, and is more challenging than ever. Learn the concepts, tools and techniques to use for a flexible plan that lets you beat Congress.

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Responsibility Diffusion

Responsibility diffusion is critical impediment to successfully growing a family business

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SWOT Analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

SWOT Analysis is one of the best strategic tools you can use. Learn about how it can focus you internally on strengths and weaknesses and externally on opportunities and threats.

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Chaos Busters for Consultants & Advisors

Chaos Busters - A Management Guide for consultants and advisors. Ideal for improving your client's performance, creating a mission statement or doing SWOT Analysis

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Family Business Help Desk

The “best of times” and the “worst of times” are two common responses to recent surveys of family businesses.

While the two responses are at opposite ends of the economic spectrum, both are intrinsically linked to change and change management.

Some family businesses have an advisory board that can help family businesses make smart decisions.

But what if you are a family business that does not have an advisory board – where can you go to get a quick answer to questions you and your family business are facing in these turbulent economic times?

One on-line resource is the Family Business Help Desk – a free service sponsored by Atlanta-based Family Business Institute and their on-line organization, Family Business Experts.

When you have a question about family business issues, they can help.

For more than 40 years, Don Schwerzler has been studying and advising family businesses and is an internationally recognized expert in dealing with family business dynamics.

In the early 80’s Schwerzler organized the Family Business Institute (http://www.family-business-experts.com/family-business-institute.html) The mission of the Family Business Institute is to help family businesses grow, to help maintain healthy family relationships – and then, when the time is right, to help transition the business from one generation to the next.

Family Business Experts (www.family-business-experts.com) is the web organization that supports the Family Business Institute. Launched in 2001, Family Business Experts is the highest ranked family business resource on the Internet.

“If you have a question about your family business, a member of our team of family business experts will respond, quickly,” said Schwerzler.

To learn more about the Family Business Help Desk, click on the link at the bottom of this Blog.

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Family eBusiness - How to make your family business successful online

Family eBusiness may be mission crititcal to the survival of a family business.

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The Practitioners Guide for Organizing an Organization Book Review

What does it mean for an organization to be healthy and productive? Learn from The Practitioners Guide for Organizing an Organization book review that explains how organizations work efficient

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Employee Health Insurance

Employee health insurance - Successful and innovative family business owners see employee health insurance as an opportunity to gain competitive advantage, not a cost.

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Accounting Information System

An accounting information system is an important family business management tool.

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Effective Business System

An effective business system is the legitimate goal of any business, including a family business. Here we look at the same nine dimensions that are critical for the family business to master.

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Change Management Theories: looking for a winner

Change management theories BPR and TQM are partial. The Theory of the Holonomic Organization finally seems to be a complete theory for change and adaptation.

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Southern Business Research

Southern Business Research strategies enable businesses to improve growth and profits

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Business Promotion Ideas

Business promotion ideas to promote your family business can use a wide range of promotional products

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Family Business Retreat Strengthens Communications

The family business retreat is one of the most important strategies used to help strengthen the communication system in a family business. See how this process can help yours.

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Every Family Business

Every Family Business presents 12 common-sense questions that can help a family business create and preserve the wealth of the family

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Aviation History

Aviation history being made - from someone who was there,,,

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General Aviation and the Family Business

General Aviation may be all about small air planes but General Aviation is not a small industry.

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Re-Imagine Your Family’s Business

Launching a family business is not unlike a couple getting married – both are built on a future-vision that works out a lot different than the reality 25-30 years later!

Like personal relationships, family businesses can get stale – the enthusiasm for change diminishes and then relationships and family businesses tend to run on auto-pilot.

And then there is the succession planning and management issues associated with aging and death. Sort of like spending a lot of time and money planning a party that nobody wants to attend!

With the pace of many family businesses slowing as a result of the current economic recession, now is a good time to “re-imagine your family’s business”.

Instead of just pushing forward with a business model created decades ago – how can the knowledge gained in the interim be re-purposed to create a more exciting, a more vigorous business model?

In a family business, innovation is key to its on-going success. But there are some critical mind-sets that must be overcome for family innovation programs to succeed. These mind-set issues are addressed on the family business innovation page on our web site.

To learn how you can “re-imagine your family’s business”, click on the link at the bottom of this blog.

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Family Business Consulting

Our family business consulting offers proven and powerful strategies for dealing with the unique and complex problems that confront and confound families in business together!

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Family Business Broker

The right family business broker can help your family business whether you're buying, selling or expanding. Learn how our expert family business broker can help.

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4 Ps of Marketing - The Controllable Elements of Your Marketing Plan

The 4 Ps of marketing classify the controllable elements of your marketing plan. Product, place [distribution] and promotion are all expenses; price brings in revenue.

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Dealing With Alcoholism in a Family Business

Dealing with alcoholism in a family business is a tough and complex problem that can wreck the family and destroy the family's business

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Alcoholism Intervention

Alcoholism intervention in a family business is a complex problem that impacts the family and the business.

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Altruistic Marketing

Altruistic Marketing is a great marketing strategy for family businesses.

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