Family Business Blog
The Family Business Blog [short for "web log"] is our mini-journal about Family Business Experts. It lets you know...
- whenever we add or update pages at the Family Business Experts web site
- about new products and services that we are bringing online
- about features and specials that are available from time to time
- when FBE principals are in the news
- when we issue our Understanding Family Business e-zine newsletter (for those of you who don't like to give your e-mail address, or if your ISP's filters are too aggressive and cause you to lose mail). The e-zine is posted to the web site as well as being e-mailed, so you can click right to it from this blog. Easy!
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Family Business Advisor
Family business advisor Don Schwerzler, top family business expert and founder of the Family Business Institute has been studying and advising family businesses for more than 40 years.
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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Family Business Help Desk
The Family Business Help Desk is a resource family business owners can use to get expert advice on family and business issues that are hurting their family's business
Family Business Strategy Master
Our family business strategy master can help a family business owner realize the true potential of the business.
Family feuds can be avoided with seven simple tips
Family feuds won't kill your family business if you follow these seven simple tips.
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Family Business Troubleshooter
Being a family business troubleshooter can be akin to being in a room of mirrors.
Don Schwerzler Interview
Don Schwerzler founded the Family Business Institute in the early 80’s. Headquartered in Atlanta, it became the very first multi-disciplined, full service resource for family-owned businesses.
Succession Management
The single best succession management strategy is to create an advisory board. Learn why,and how in this interview with a succession management expert.
Marketing and Advertising Law
Marketingand Advertising Law - six key questions for family business owners to ask
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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Family Business Consulting
Family Business Consulting resources provided by Atlanta-based Family Business Institute offer tips and success strategies for family businesses
Building Consensus in a Family Business
Building consensus about how the business should be operated, now and into the future, is one of the most difficult problems confronting family businesses.
Professionalizing Family Business Management
Professionalizing family business management is the most difficult and emotionally destructive problem confronted in family businesses. Learn how to handle it by evolution rather than revolution.
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Performance Metrics
Performance metrics requires that the major work functions in every department be identified both in terms of volume and time. The premise is that work not measured cannot be managed.
Ask the Family Business Expert
Ask The Family Business Expert - Here's your chance to ask our family business expert about issues and concerns you may have about your family business.
Risk Management Insurance
Risk management insurance should be considered as part of the risk management plan for every family business
Digital Maketing Expert
Family businesses should consider using a digital marketing expert to increase sales and profits
Family Business Experts
Family Business Experts 20 person team is nationally recognized for our work in pioneering the multi-discipline approach to solving the unique and complex problems that impact the family business.
Family Business Resource Center
Atlanta-based Family Business Institute is a leading Family Business Resource Center (FBRC) providing connected solutions to the unique and complex issues that confront family businesses.
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.
Transition tips for family businesses
The transition of ownership from one generation to the next can cause havoc in the family business and the family. Here are three ideas to help ensure success for your family business.
Business Communication - Many Channels to Navigate
Business communication is always an important function that family businesses need to manage with a clear vision and strategy.
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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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Customer Relationship Management Trend - The 4 Rs
Customer relationship management trend [CRM] focuses on how sellers can use in-depth marketing intelligence to build trust, loyalty and long-term engagement with customers.
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Buy-Sell Agreement
The buy-sell agreement is a specialized form of shareholder agreement that deals with ownership transfers.
United States Immigration
United States immigration policy encourages foreign entrepreneurs and family businesses to immigrate to the United States.
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
Southern Business Research
Southern Business Research strategies enable businesses to improve growth and profits
Family Mission Statement
A family mission statement helps to separate the family's interaction with the family business.
Addiction Treatment Recovery Process
Addiction Treatment Recovery Process should include helping family members and friends needs to be on a par with helping the addicts and alcoholics
Learning and Innovation - The Art of Connecting Them
Learning and innovation are two linked strategies for successful family businesses. Here are nine changes that will shape innovation.
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Family Business Experts
Family Business Experts is the best family business resource on the Internet. We offer hundreds of great strategies and tips for families in business together.
Manager Magazine Bulgaria - Don Schwerzler interview
Manager Magazine Bulgaria published an interview with family business expert Don Schwerzler
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Disability - providing for children
Providing for a child with a disability is complex and challenging. We interview two authors who answer all the questions and show us the techniques such as special needs trusts.
Exit Planning
Exit planning is necessary because you will transfer your business interest - either during your lifetime, or you will die or become incapacitated. Learn how to avoid the chaos of forced liquidation.
Family Business Innovation - “If it ain’t broke, break it”
Family business innovation drives entrepreneurship, not caretaking. Learn how to start an innovation program and 10 mind sets that have to change.
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family business analytics
Family business analytics can be the key to growing your family business in size and profitability
