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Performance Faction’s Insights, Strategies, and Tools for a scalable, results-driven organization.

What is your Agency worth?

During the 2-3 year period we actively pursued selling our digital agency business (Lifeblue), we had offers with valuations as low as $4M to as high as $15M and everything in between. I used a number of accounting professionals and

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The Stories We Tell

I’m 72 conversations into my goal of 150 by year’s end.  It might be tough to make it with the holidays but I’ll go down swinging.  My most favorite part of all of these conversations is the fascinating stories I’ve heard of

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150 Conversations

Well, it’s been a long ride.  One I wouldn’t trade for the world.  No, I’m not dying or retiring.  As most of you know, I’m making a great leap into a new adventure.  The transition has been bittersweet. I poured

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Say No to the Default Task

The Exciting Start I remember the very first day of starting my own business. It was October 29th, 2006. The time frame between the initial idea, to selling our first website to a client, was three days. To say we

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The Exit – Why It Matters More Than You Think

You are not maximizing the opportunity of a team member leaving. The Dreaded Conversation It starts with that funny feeling when you’re asked to chat outside of normal interactions. When you meet the topic comes quick; you hear the news

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Quick Guide to an Effective Interview Process

Quality Interviews Lead to Quality Hires Do you believe that good things don’t always come easy? Have you heard the saying “Easy in, easy out?” Have you also heard the saying, “hire slow, fire fast?” These aren’t just little quips,

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Marketing for Your Future Team

Priorities in Recruiting Matter So you want to attract quality candidates, eh? It is interesting to me that many companies focus their marketing and branding towards only customers and do not focus on recruiting talented team members. As you may

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How to Write an Effective Job Advertisement

Write to the Humans I’ve never quite understood why most companies make their job advertisements read like prescription medication instructions. A job description is what you give a candidate to better understand the specific duties and requirements of the position

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An Agency Story Podcast

First-hand interviews of creative, digital, advertising, and marketing agency owners that have walked the talk of running an agency business.

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