If you hope to sell your business within the next ten years, there are certain factors to consider that might decrease your business valuation. If any of these elements are true about your business, work them out far in advance of begining to sell your business.

Here are five elements that could negatively impact the valuation of your business.

5 Elements that Could Decrease Your Business Valuation

Can you believe it is 2014 already? As we get ready to launch this exciting year, one way to be happier day-in and day-out is to identify self-defeating activities and put a stop to them.

If you stop these five things, you’ll have a much happier 2014.

5 Ways to Live the Life of Your Dreams

One of the best ways to become more creative and productive in the upcoming year is to enhance your workspace. Often we start in a space get so busy that we don’t even realize that we have outgrown it, or that it needs a drastic revamp. Your environment is a key element of your success and improving it is a good investment of your time.

Here are five ways you can do just that.

5 Ways to Enhance Your Workspace

As you close out 2013 and get ready to launch 2014, it’s a great time to think about how to make things different and better. Not in the old “resolution” manner, but by thinking of what you want more of and less of in life.

Here are five thoughts to consider.

5 Thoughts to End the Year

In the midst of all the holiday chaos…STOP.

Take a few minutes to sit down and reflect on the REAL gifts of the season.

Here are five questions to consider.

5 Questions to Appreciate the REAL Gifts of the Season

It’s no secret that the holidays can push your stress to an all-time high. Many of us tend to take on more than ever before both in our business and personal lives, by squeezing in that one extra party, buying that one extra gift, baking that one extra batch of cookies.

But you can develop an approach that relieves some of that stress. Here are five ways you can enjoy the holidays more than ever.

5 Ways to Enjoy the Holiday Season

If you’re like me, you get well over 100 emails a day. Sometimes 200, right?

How do efficient people lighten their email? Just follow the process below and you’ll be able to dramatically decrease the amount of unwanted email you receive.

5-Steps to Eliminating Unwanted Email

Many women brag about their revenue but shy away from discussing their profitability. Linda Holden makes this wise statement about profit, “The only thing worse than doing nothing is doing something for nothing.”

How about you? Are you working for next to nothing? If so, consider these five ways to drive profitability.

5 Ways to Drive Your Profit

The way you price your products or services can make or break your business. Your pricing needs to be competitive, yet profitable. What’s the best way to arrive at that?

Here are five ways to increase your profitability through smart pricing.

Five Approaches to More Profitable Pricing

When someone on your staff has a performance problem, it will have a negative effect on every member of your team. (Note here that I don’t say “can” but “will.”) Correcting that problem creates a win for you, a win for the employee with the problem, and a win for every other employee who works with that person.

Here is a five-step process to address employee performance problems.

Five-Step Process to Address Employee Performance Problems