{"id":610230,"date":"2023-02-21T01:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T07:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/dumb-financial-mistakes-business-owners-make-and-how-to-avoid-them\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T01:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T07:49:53","slug":"dumb-financial-mistakes-business-owners-make-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/dumb-financial-mistakes-business-owners-make-and-how-to-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Financial Mistakes Business Owners Make and How to Avoid Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><meta content=\"Dumb Financial Mistakes Business Owners Make and How to Avoid Them\"><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Published: <span datetime=\"2023-02-20T07:30:49-05:00\">Feb 20, 2023<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span>by <span><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/author\/small-business-radio-show\" title=\"Posts by Small Business Radio Show\">Small Business Radio Show<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span>In <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/category\/small-business-news\" title=\"View all articles in Small Business News\">Small Business News<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/2023\/02\/financial-mistakes-business-owners-make.html#comments\">0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>I have been crusading against dumb <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/category\/small-business-finance\">financial<\/a> mistakes business owners make small business owners make ever since I lost $1M off the sale price of my last business because I could not read a balance sheet; and I had an MBA from Northwestern University!<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/barrymoltz.com\/small-business-radio-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Small Business Radio Show<\/a> this week, my guest is <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthkinghvac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ruth King<\/a> who is the President of Business Ventures Corporation. Ruth has a passion for helping businesses get and stay profitable.\u00a0 She is especially proud of one small business owner who had $750,000 in revenues when Ruth started consulting with him. Sixteen years later, the business had grown to $10 million and it was sold for $9 million in cash!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset sizes decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/ezoimgfmt\/media.smallbiztrends.com\/2023\/02\/financial-mistakes-business-owners-make.png?ezimgfmt=ng%3Awebp%2Fngcb12%2Frs%3Adevice%2Frscb12-1\" alt=\"financial mistakes business owners make\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb12 src ng ngcb12 srcset\" loading=\"eager\" importance=\"high\"><\/p>\n<p>Her latest book, \u201c101 Dumb Financial Mistakes Business Owners Make and How to Avoid Them\u201d, will be released in September, 2023.\u00a0 It is preceded by the #1 Best Selling book, \u201cThe Courage to be Profitable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the dumb financial mistakes we discussed and how to avoid or fix them:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abdicating the Responsibility of the Financial Side of Your Business.<\/li>\n<li>Having the Mercedes Benz Syndrome.<\/li>\n<li>Blinding Accepting What Your CPA Says.<\/li>\n<li>Ignoring Weekly Cash Flow Reports.<\/li>\n<li>Not Billing on Time.<\/li>\n<li>Focusing on the Top Line instead of the Bottom Line.<\/li>\n<li>Not Asking Your Employees to Fully Participate in the Financial Goals of the Business.<\/li>\n<li>Not Knowing Where Your Leads Come From.<\/li>\n<li>Not Tracking Sales Peoples\u2019 Close Rate.<\/li>\n<li>Not Firing a Customer.<\/li>\n<li>Not Having a Buy- Sell Agreement with a Partner.<\/li>\n<li>Not Knowing Why You Are in Business.<\/li>\n<li>Pricing Incorrectly.<\/li>\n<li>Paying Commissions Based on Gross Margins.<\/li>\n<li>Not Considering Unbillable Hours in Your Pricing.<\/li>\n<li>Not Raising Prices When Costs Increase.<\/li>\n<li>Not Recognizing That Your Balance Sheet is More Important Than Your Profit and Loss Statement.<\/li>\n<li>Not Collecting Your Accounts Receivable on Time.<span><\/span><span id=\"ez-clearholder-medrectangle-4\"><\/span><span data-ez-name=\"smallbiztrends_com-medrectangle-4\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barrymoltz.com\/small-business-radio-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Listen to all the dumb financial mistakes we make on and how to fix them on The Small Business Radio Show.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/sbt.me\/goonb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>Image: ruthkinghvac<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"related-articles\">\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"abouttheauthor\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BarryMoltz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/barrymoltz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmallBusinessUnstuck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barrymoltz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/author\/small-business-radio-show\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/668.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Small Business Radio Show\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" ezimgfmt=\"rs rscb12 src ng ngcb12\" data-ezsrc=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/668.thumbnail.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nAs a small business expert, Barry Moltz gets owners growing again by unlocking their long forgotten potential. With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. As a small business expert, Barry applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallbiztrends.com\/2023\/02\/financial-mistakes-business-owners-make.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Small Business Radio Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Feb 20, 2023 by Small Business Radio Show In Small Business News 0I have been crusading against dumb financial mistakes business owners make small business owners make ever since I lost $1M off the sale price of my last business because I could not read a balance sheet; and I had an MBA from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,448],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-610230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-mistakes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}