SHANE SIEGFRIED

80% of all businesses fail in the first 5 years. In the next 5 years, 80% of those remaining businesses fail. Let's say out of 100 businesses, 80 fail in the first 5 years. That leaves 20. Out of those 20, another 16 fail in the next 5 years. That leaves 4 out of 100 businesses that are still around in 10 years. You have a 4 in 100 chance of making it! How can you increase your odds?... Dunn and Bradstreet did a very extensive, very expensive research study to try to find the answer to this question. Want to know what they found? They found that companies that had high, healthy sales were successful. Companies that had low, poor sales were unsuccessful. Can you believe it? Who would have thought???