PressTalkBooks has released my audiobook titled The Mistake Avoidance Coach: How to ask the right 10 top questions for your business. Topics introduced include the following: Mistake Avoidance Strategic Advice Session on Your Most Pressing Opportunity How to ask the right 10 top questions for your business How to avoid making or receiving the “crisis call” Start your roadmap to sustainable Wealth The power of asking the right question at the right time Listen to the brief 12 minute audio by clicking on the file below. The cover projects the “As Featured On” logos status of NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News and more to raise my thought leader profile. https://youtu.be/DWEunY_MN_c 
Think how much better you will sleep at night when you address issues like: Late financials, Low return on equity, Lack of planning, Low enjoyment, Cash shortages, Project overruns, Low customer profitability, Crisis atmosphere, No growth, Lack of financing, Inventory shortages, and basic Unpleasant gut feelings. See how much more enjoyable it is to stop feeling your business is stuck, a best kept secret, or coasting on past successes.
Sustainable Mission for Your Nonprofit
The need to attain a sustainable financial and fiscal level is crucial for all but the largest nonprofit organizations.
With my compliments, please download and use freely the strategic focused 20 issue checklist, so long as it is not altered and full attribution is provided to Gary Patterson, the FiscalDoctor®.
Roadmap to Sustainable Mission
This builds on my Guidestar article “How Many 800-Pound Issues Is Your Board Finessing?”. It discusses 20 topics fellow board of directors and CEOs of non-profits felt should be addressed in more detail so you find your million $ blindspot before it finds you. http://www.guidestar.org/rxa/news/articles/2015/how-many-800-pound-issues-is-your-board-finessing.aspx? Or http://tinyurl.com/l2rf7we
Examples of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Courtesy of Chron
Cost-effective analysis will require you to first find out exactly what it is you’re measuring. Get examples of cost-effectiveness analysis with help from an experienced business professional in this free video clip.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/examples-costeffectiveness-analysis-79893.html
Strategic Make or Buy Decisions You Should Consider
It is always nice to have the benefit of someone addressing your problem to make your process much more efficient. A number of other business have created a high level list of where you might need to improve your organization.
Which areas should you be outsourcing to bring in outsider expertise to find issues in time to fix, or to fix issues that really should be resolved now, while cash flow is available?
http://www.businessinsider.com/cfos-are-outsourcing-these-jobs-to-consultants-2015-10
Let me know when you would like to receive my list of 20 Black Hole and Taboo Issues to help you prepare for your regular offsite session or for a more focused strategic workshop session.
Funding: Get “the money” people to follow you
Follow the money is an interesting concept both for becoming more profitable AND getting lender or investor dollars.
It is easy to agree you need to become more bankable or interesting to an investor or buyer. Extremely hard to do without an outsider expert supporting your process.
What are the best things you have done in the past to become more interesting to check writers?
What is the biggest mistake you made along the way?
http://daily.financialexecutives.org/access-to-better-capital-drives-the-mid-market/
How to Prevent Bad Things from Happening to Your Good Company Interview
Marnie Swedberg of Marnie’s Friends Talk Radio
THANK YOU! Gary – You were a super guest!
I’m going to STUDY your book — for all three businesses! You did a great job explaining things while whetting my appetite, and hopefully listeners had the same experience!
Here’s the link address at BTR and at iTunes. To download the segment, go to the BTR link.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/marniesfriends/2015/09/09/management-traininghow-to-prevent-bad-things-from-happening-to-good-companies
Again, thank you so much for sharing the air! I look forward to connecting with you again.
Marnie Swedberg, Author, Speaker, Trainer & Media Expert
Marnie’s Friends Talk Radio http://www.marnie.com/