1. The #1 reason most small
businesses are flourishing
today
** hint, hint, if your company is not, you’ll definitely
want to take note
Elizabeth W. Gordon
President, Flourishing Business
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2. Why do people start businesses?
• Brilliant idea, huge opportunity
• Can’t work for someone else
• Freedom…personal, financial, spiritual
• Work-life balance
• Do what they love, work in their passion
• Fulfillment, fun, or foolishness
• Make a difference
• Necessity
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3. What is a Flourishing Business®?
• An asset of true inherent value
• It grows naturally, and is well tended to
• Natural cycles of ebb and flow self-correct
• A way to bridge the gap between self-
employment and Business Ownership
• Repetitive tasks are systematized to routine
• How your unique value can change the world
• A different approach to building and growing
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4. Contrast traditional hierarchy
and corporate silos, with...
Sales Finance Operations
CEO
Flourishing Business®
An Advisory Firm for Entrepreneurs

5. The Flourishing Business Methodology
A proven
A holistic, formula for
unified thinking and
framework acting to
for growth build a fast-
centered on growing,
true market profitable
business in
value
- Elizabeth Gordon any market
-Brian Tracy
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6. Bloating vs. Blossoming
Successful small businesses focus on growing their unique
value and influence from the center out in a unified way,
rather than growing their management control footprint
from the top down in a compartmentalized way.
As an entrepreneur, you’ve got
to Dare to be Different,
otherwise you are playing the
wrong game.
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7. So what’s the #1 reason small
businesses today are flourishing
• ...because they have to
• In the absence of bailouts, political favors, and market
manipulation, there are no smoke and mirrors here
• Small businesses that provide genuine, unique value
profitably stay in business; those that don’t, don’t
• Before you invest another dime in marketing, PR,
salespeople, systems, software, employee benefit
plans, office space, etc. - make sure you are providing
real, tangible, illustratable, measurable, & different
value to people who want, need and appreciate it
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8. Entrepreneurship is the answer to
economic growth
• Solve important problems in innovative ways
• Funnel talent and resources to highest ROI
activities and industries
• Company values that reflect community values
• In-built accountability and sustainability
• New jobs that provide training and experience
• Business is our greatest tool for global peace
and prosperity - let’s use it for the greater good
• Maximize your company’s value and influence
Contact Elizabeth Gordon @
Flourishing Business today Email your business challenge to
egordon@flourishingbusiness.com
for a consultation
(404) 849-5357 8
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