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February 2008  
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Growing the Value of Your Business in a Competitive Global Economy

Business Growth Alliance believes that locally owned, privately-held, growing and profitable medium-sized businesses are materially important contributors to the betterment of regional economies and the social fabric within communities. Rapid change, global competition, community erosion, generational transitions, and market challenges must be recognized, addressed and resolved in order for such companies to survive, compete and prosper. BGA assists its clients to remain rooted in their communities and to be competitive, not just in the United States, but throughout the world. This month, the enclosed articles address the challenges and obstacles of growth.  

Featured Articles
Growing Value: Buzzwords or Building Blocks?
A Special Report by James C. Bly, Jr.
Chairman & CEO, Source Companies, LLC

When business improvement is desired, many companies often turn to the latest management books and popular programs of the day. In this article, James Bly explains the "buliding blocks" that drive value creation.
 
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Achieving Growth via the Perfect Capital Structure
Balancing Capital and Control in a Family-Owned Company
by François de Visscher, de Visscher; Richard Maurer, Arrow Capital Advisors

Imagine Saddam Hussein, Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson as co-owners of a family business. What might that company look like? How would it function? In this article, François de Visscher and Rick Maurer explain how it might just resemble the family business of the future.  

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FOCUS Middle Market M&A Forecast
10 Significant Issues in 2008
by Douglas E. Rodgers, CEO and Managing Partner, FOCUS

Drawn from the collective insights of 30 FOCUS investment bankers, the new 2008 FOCUS M&A Forecast outlines 10 significant issues flowing from four major economic trends that will be affecting U.S. middle market companies this year.

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Need to Transform Your Organization? Ask Your Customers.
A Case Study from Tenzing Consulting
by Tenzing Consulting

Through a structured “voice of the customer” analysis, Tenzing Consulting provided a new supply chain executive with the insight required to build a blueprint for a high-performance organization.

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Turning Data Into Dollars = Growth
How data mining can improve your BtoB sales and marketing.
by Barry Rosen, The Pursuit Group; Robert Migliara, Market Intelligence Group

Call it data mining for the rest of us. Thanks to affordable new tools and service providers, even small- and mid-sized BtoB firms are reaping big gains from data mining. Barry Rosen and Robert Migliara review how today’s data mining can help grow your business.


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Sales Presentation of the Month

  8 Great Tips for Improving Cross-Selling and Up-   Selling

                               By The Pursuit Group  


 
Sales Tip of the Month

 The Crucial Thirty
                                
By Asher Training


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In This Issue
Growing Value: Buzzwords or Building Blocks?
Achieving Growth via the Perfect Capital Structure
FOCUS Middle Market M&A Forecast
Need to Transform Your Organization? Ask Your Customers.
Turning Data Into Dollars = Growth
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Upcoming Events

BGA Affiliate Board Member, John Asher, CEO, Asher Training, will be hosting a series of public sales seminars titled "Selling Excellence" in a city near you! Click Here to learn more.

BGA Affiliate Board Member, Ben DuPont, President, yet2.com and Phil Stern, CEO, yet2.com will be hosting and speaking at an Open Innovation Benchmarking Session at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA on April 9, 2008.

BGA Co-Chairman, François M. de Visscher will be speaking on the topic of "Managing Capital & Liquidity in the Family Business" at a forum hosted by the University of Toledo Family Business Center on May 6, 2008. 

PathNorth's next semi-annual gathering is: June 9-10, 2008 in Washington, D.C. For more information, please contact PathNorth at 202-467-2079 or visit www.pathnorth.com.  


 
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