Filling Your Sales Pipeline After the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic caused many businesses’ sales pipelines to dry up. So, our CEO Ken Peterson spoke with John Barrows, CEO of JBarrows Sales training about how businesses can get back on track in a post-pandemic world.

Restocking Your Business’ Sales Pipeline

The conversation below discusses:

  • How ideal customer profiles have changed
  • How persona priorities have changed
  • Ways to craft your messaging to drive results

Watch Ken and John’s conversation now, then contact us to learn more about how we can help you.

 

Book Recommendations for Entrepreneurs

The leaders at Next Level Now enjoy reading and recommending books to our clients. Brose our ever-growing list of favorites below. As Peter Drucker once said, “Knowledge is Power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

 

Next Level Now Reading List

The Daily Drucker, Peter F. Drucker

The Ecological Vision, Peter F. Drucker

Good to Great, Jim Collins

Great by Choice, Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins & Jerry Porras

The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni

The Four Obsessions of Extraordinary Executive, Patrick Lencioni

Death by Meeting, Patrick Lencioni

Getting Naked, Patrick Lencioni

Tribe, Seth Godin

The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin

Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Verne Harnish

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), Verne Harnish

Selling the Invisible, Harry Beckwith

The Invisible Touch, Harry Beckwith

Execution, The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan

Speak Like A CEO, Suzanne Bates

Motivate Like A CEO, Suzanne Bates

jack – Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch

The 8th Habit – From Effectiveness to Greatness, Stephen R. Covey

Thinking for a Change (11 ways highly successful people approach life & work), John C. Maxwell

Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

Business Brilliant, Lewis Schiff

First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

The Tao of Coaching, Max Landsberg

In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.

Originals, Adam Grant

The Great Game of Business, Jack Stack

The Talent Delusion, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play, Mahan Khalsa & Randy Illig

The E-Myth Revisted: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, Michael Gerber

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, Peter Drucker

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, Peter Senge

First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

Key Management Ratios, Ciaran Walsh

CEO Tools, Kraig Kramers

Keeping Score, Mark Graham Brown

No Excuses Management, T.J. Rodgers

Use our Contact Us page to message us about any books we should know about!

The Inaugural Executive Series Event – A Big Success!

The first event of 2020 kicked off on January 29 at Grill 28/Pease Golf Course. The Executive Series Moderator/CFO, Matt Towse welcomed our guest panel of Brandi Bonds, CFO at Next Level Now, John-Michael Girald, Founder of Peloton Advisory, Julie Morse and Peter Burger, Business Attorneys with Orr & Reno. The topic was M&A and we explored the different stages and opened up the discussion to an engaged room of business owners, finance professionals, and investment partners.

Next Level Now Partners to Create The Executive Series

 

 

 

 

We are happy to bring a new business series to the Seacoast. The Executive Series – learning and networking event. Our inaugural event kicks off with an interactive talk with a Panel of M&A professionals.

Our inaugural event starts off with the topic Mergers & Acquisitions on Wednesday, January 29, 2020.

The Panel:

John-Michael Girald – Founding Partner of Peloton Advisory LLC

Julie Morse and Peter Burger – Business Attorneys at Orr & Reno 

Brandi Bonds – CFO at Next Level Now, Inc.

 

If you are thinking about selling your business in the future, you won’t want to miss the first Executive Series event, Mergers & Acquisitions.

Use this link to learn more & register:
https://bit.ly/309ESw9

January 29th at 7-9am at Grill 28 at Pease Country Club in Portsmouth NH

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Calendar & Topics for 2020:

January 29th – M&A Panel
March 25th – How to Eliminate your Close
May 20th – Software Technologies
July 22nd – HR (Trends, Strategies, Rules & Compliance)
September 23rd – Change Management
November 18th – Year-End Planning & Projections

Come join us for our first event as we kick off the New Year! Free breakfast buffet, networking, and presentation!

+1.5 CPE for CPA/CMA

Is it Time to Hire?

Do you know when it’s the right time to hire additional employees? How do you know that you have enough employees? Are all current employees productive? What does the cost vs. return look like? We’ll provide the answers to these questions and help you SOAR!  #soar #cfos #bookkeeping #outsource #answers https://nextlevelnow.net/strategic-outsourced-accounting-resources/

Next Level Now Partners with LANDFALL Solutions

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Top Financial Solutions Companies, Next Level Now and LANDFALL Solutions form Partnership to Elevate Client Services

A Partnership that will Provide a Deeper Level of Financial Expertise for Clients

Next Level Now, a top provider of high-level strategic financial services announces a new partnership with LANDFALL Solutions, a leading accounting, and ERP technology consulting firm. This new partnership expands both firms’ services to help organizations focus on accelerating their businesses while improving their financial management and overall financial stability.

Next Level Now Founder/CFO Ken Peterson said he is thrilled to partner with the team at LANDFALL. “Our partnership with LANDFALL is about expanding our service to help our clients succeed, we know we are successful when our clients are matched with the best technology solution that fits their needs and enables growth – it drives us.”

Mark Solberg, President of LANDFALL Solutions adds “We are excited to be working with Next Level Now. Their service provides a lot of value. We are confident that Next Level Now will be able to help our customers have greater insight into their businesses, be able to make better data-driven decisions, and grow their businesses effectively,” stated.

Next Level Now is a team of strategic CFOs, LANDFALL Solutions is an experienced VAR and Accounting Specialist. Together, the two partners have over 50 years of combined finance expertise.

 

About LANDFALL Solutions
LANDFALL Solutions provides accounting and ERP business technology solutions for small to mid-sized companies as well as large multi-national companies with complex requirements. In addition to being a Sage Intacct Partner, Acumatica Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft Silver Certified Partner, LANDFALL is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and offers its own suite of productivity applications designed to improve the operations of accounting and ERP solutions. LANDFALL offers its clients complete guidance to implement modern, stable and efficient business information systems.

Our Clients’ Successes Are What Drives Us

Working with NLN has taken almost all the financial uncertainty out of my decisions. I literally have a road map for my year before it starts. I just have to hit my targeted goals. The other value NLN brings to the table is that they are part of my management team. I often go to them for questions related to financial and business management or when cash flow is tight or projections change. I would not be where I am today without Next Level Now and can’t imagine being in business without them.”

Do you have a Trusted Advisor to get you where you want to be?

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Next Level CFO Brandi Bonds Panelist for TMA Presentation

The Turnaround Management Association – Northeast Chapter presented an in-depth look at Challenging Times for some US Beer Companies, March 7, 2019 at Rising Tide Brewery, Portland Maine.

Panelists; Brandi Bonds, CFO – Next Level Now, Dan Sklar, Partner – Nixon Peabody and Peter Tamposi, Attorney – Tamposi Law Group

Is “beer” in an unstable position?

“2018 was undoubtedly a challenging year for a number of U.S. beer companies. …marked by layoffs, brewery closures and sluggish sales as more than 7,000 breweries battled for shrinking market share.”  Brewbound Article: 3 Big Storylines that Defined Beer in 2018
2018 with Hand Filling Beer Glass