Checklist for moving your business into 2021

A Checklist For Moving Your Business Into 2021 This has undoubtedly been a difficult year for most Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. You have been forced to embrace uncertainty more so than ever. There was no playbook to guide your actions and decisions in 2020. Give yourself a pat on the back for still being here […]

Happy Holidays!

To All Our Dear Subscribers, Clients and Friends… Our Team, the board members at Associated Senior Executives, want to send you some personal thoughts and hopes for the coming year, 2021… FLETCH KEATING: The first 6 months of Covid were all about disbelief, fear and uncertainty. I think that as we all reflect on what […]

Developing Vision, Mission and Core -Value Statements

Developing Vision, Mission and Core -Value Statements -November2020 Newsletter To inspire an organization and bind it together with purpose and direction, business managements have developed purpose statements. They may be labeled differently in different institutions, however in this letter we will continue to call them by their most traditional names: Vision, Mission, and Value Statements. […]

Adapting to Covid

Our Story – Adapting to Covid 19 and future of ASE Covid has permanently changed our modern world. The Challenge is how do we, in business, react and change our own methods, habits, and activities to keep a sane, healthy, and financially solid life! In the short term, we were forced to focus on something […]

Considering your business exit strategy

Considering Your Business’ Exit Strategy Over time you have nurtured your business like a parent nurtures a baby. It is your life’s work and may even be your identity. How do you sell it and get others to see its value? This is a tough transition and sometimes a rude realization. Preparing to sell a […]

Getting to success

GETTING TO SUCCESS Over the years we have written about all of the below in one way or another: the importance of using tools in getting to a successful business and knocking it out of the park! It doesn’t matter what business you are in, most, if not all of the following are best stepping […]

Salary versus Dividends

Salary versus Dividends: How should you pay yourself? We, at Associated Senior Executive, often have clients ask whether they should take their wages as a salary or dividends. As a business owner of an incorporated business, you can derive your income from either salary or dividends or from both. What are the differences between dividend […]

What will be the new reality?

‘WHAT WILL BE THE NEW REALITY?’ In this Covid -19 environment we are sure we have all have talked about what will be the ‘new normal’ [over Zoom no doubt]. No one of us can predict or assume what the new reality will be but, for certain, there will be a new reality. For business […]

Looking forward after Covid19 – New strategy?

Looking Forward After Covid-19  (ASE NEWSLETTER MAY 2020) A New Business Strategy? Associated Senior Executives has a range of clientele from the sole entrepreneur to business owners and many with numerous employees. Although this material may be more for businesses with a number of employees, these same issues can be applied to big and small businesses in […]

‘SCARY TIMES’…

In the fall of 2001, just after 9/11, I attended a workshop with Dan Sullivan, founder of Strategic Coach, an exclusive program for entrepreneurs. We were still rattled by the recent events of the Twin Towers and fearful of our future. Some students there witnessed that day in New York City. Listening to their stories […]