Author Archives: Daniel M. Murphy

About Daniel M. Murphy

CEO, Founder & Business Coach, The Growth Coach Business Coaching Franchise System, Certified Business Coaches throughout North America

Growth Coach Challenge – No Really, What’s Holding Your Company Back?

Business Owner, as your virtual Growth Coach, let me ask you a direct question.  What’s holding your company back from greater levels of success?  Come on, be brutally honest and courageous enough to focus on at least 3 circumstances, conditions, … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Challenge – Use a Proven Process to Lose Weight or Gain Business Success

Whether people are trying to lose weight and keep it off or improve their businesses and personal lives, it takes a system and time.  Knowing what to do is never enough.  You need to consistently do what you know you … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Challenge – Always Deal with the Truth

Ever tell yourself lies about your business and personal life to feel better?  Ever ignore or deny reality?  Sure you have!  Every small business owner and entrepreneur on occasion tells themselves comforting lies and stories to avoid the pain of … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Challenge – Optimize for the Big Prize

As a small business owner, in both good times and bad, it pays to think and act like a Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  As a CEO, you should elevate your mindset to focus on the big picture, see the entire … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Business Challenge – Take the Tombstone Test

Business ownership done right should be about freedom, fun, fulfillment and significant money.  It should also be about serving and helping the lives of others, especially your customers and employees. Business ownership done wrong is about imprisonment, frustration and very … Continue reading

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Business Owner – 9 Simple, Low-Cost Marketing Strategies to Win New Customers

This Growth Coach Blog is dedicated to helping business owners like you attract new customers with practical and low-cost marketing strategies.  The more fishing lines your company puts in the water, the better chance of catching new customers.  These are … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Challenge – Entrepreneur, Stop Collecting More Hats

Quick, how many hats are you currently wearing or juggling at your company?  You know what I mean … how many different roles/jobs are you responsible for in a given week?  Like most entrepreneurs, your answer is probably that you … Continue reading

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Business Owner – Are Your Front-Line and Back-Office Processes in Order?

Dear small business owner, please stop trying to be a CEO … Chief EVERYTHING Officer … and instead, start being a Chief Executive Officer.  This single distinction of working ON your business more instead of IN your business can save … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Challenge – Spring Clean Your Business

In Ohio, every year spring faithfully arrives. It brings with it rain and rising temperatures that cause the leaves and buds to sprout, the grass to grow, the flowers to bloom, the weeds to explode, my allergies to kick in high … Continue reading

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Growth Coach Challenge – Business Owner, Don’t Waste Your Wake-Up Calls

Every human being, but especially overworked, overwhelmed, and overly busy entrepreneurs and small business owners, will receive numerous wake-up calls over their lifetime.  What’s a wake-up call? It’s that very personal, shocking, upsetting, and significant event that grabs your attention, … Continue reading

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