- We don’t have enough money.
- We are not able to get new customers.
- We are not able to keep existing customers.
- Our revenues are too low.
- Revenues are OK, but profitability sucks.
- Our employee turnover is too high.
- I need to sell this business.
- My business partner is a jerk.
- We’re having quality issues with our products.
- Our website sucks.
- We’re constantly out of office supplies.
- We need to move to bigger space.
- I think one of my employees is a drug addict.
- We hired somebody and we didn’t realize they had a criminal record.
- Our prices are too low.
- Our products are growing obsolete.
- A virus infected every computer in our office.
- My business partner just passed away.
- I’m getting a divorce and my wife wants the business.
- We just lost our biggest client, accounting for 50% of our revenues.
- My employees are coasting on me. There’s no work ethic here.
- Our business culture sucks.
- I don’t have a good business lawyer.
- One of our customers is suing the business.
- My biggest competitor just raised $50 million in venture capital.
- Nobody knows who we are.
- I’m not getting any foot traffic into my store.
- All this government paperwork is killing me.
- I hate, hate, hate processing payroll.
- I don’t have enough money to pay my estimated income taxes for the quarter.
- We keep hiring idiots.
- My accountant is not returning my phone calls.
- We have a bunch of receivables, but the checks are not coming in for some reason.
- The competitors’ advertising is way better than ours.
- We don’t show up for anything relevant to our business when people search in Google, Bing or other search engines.
- I can’t find workers compensation insurance for my business.
- How am I supposed to get and be able to afford a good small business health insurance plan for my employees?
- I’m ready to shut this thing down. I’m at my wit’s end.
- Janet just told me that Steve is sexually harassing her at work, and she’s really pissed.
- I have no clue how much my business is worth?
- I think I’m paying too much for shipping.
- Our office equipment keeps breaking down.
- I would like to franchise this business but I have no clue how to get started.
- Our business credit rating is bad.
- I need a small business credit card, ideally without a personal guarantee.
- I never bothered to incorporate. I think I’m overdue to do it, because we’re struggling and I’m worried creditors are going to come after me personally.
- I’m dying and I have no viable successor for this business.
- None of my kids has any desire to work for my company.
- Our legal bills are out of control.
- Our finances are a mess.
- This is a commodity business. How can we differentiate ourselves on anything but price?
- My employees are complaining that we don’t offer any training.
- My best employee just got poached by another firm.
- The career path here is non-existent and employees are bitching about it.
- We are weak on employee diversity. This place looks like a Ku Klux Klan meeting.
- We just got broken into by burglars last night!
- Honestly, I think are company name is stupid and we’re losing business because of it.
- I have no clue why we just lost that big sale.
- There’s a lot of infighting within my management team.
- Cash flow is really tight. We may not make payroll later this month.
- One of my employees slipped on a puddle of water and broke their back.
- Our distribution partners don’t seem to be motivated to sell our stuff.
- Our office flooded last night. We are totally screwed.
- Customer complaints are up.
- I’m able to pay my employees but I’m not pulling enough money out of the business.
- Foreign competition is killing us.
- Sales are down 30% from last year.
- There’s some new competition in town, and they look like they really know what they are doing.
- We’ve been accused of patent infringement.
- I need to layoff 20% of my workforce.
- One employee is destroying everybody else’s morale. He’s a poison to the company!
- Inventory shrinkage is going through the roof lately. What’s up with that?
- I never thought it would play out this way, but I think bankruptcy is my only option.
- It’s time to move out of my house and get a real office.
- Why did I buy this stupid phone system? It’s horrible, and it’s ruining our reputation.
- My independent contract just said that he should be classified as an employee and that I have to pay him benefits.
- We’ve been trying to sell this business for five years now, and we haven’t received a single offer.
- I can’t see my colleague’s work schedules and it’s driving me crazy. I keep scheduling meetings when they already have meetings.
- I’ve got a stack of business cards that are good leads, but they’ve just been sitting in a box gathering dust.
- How can I get a list of good prospects for our business? We need to start talking to more people.
- This is possibly the worst CRM system known to man.
- Our money is sitting in our bank account and it’s earning zero interest. That’s crazy.
- I’m a business owner and I have no retirement plan, very little savings, and my kids are about to go to college.
- I have a troublesome, insubordinate employee on my hands.
- The competition is spreading false rumors about us.
- We are severely understaffed and I’m worried that people are getting burned out.
- Apparently, we’ve been paying less than the minimum wage. I think we may be in trouble.
- Employee morale is low. I have no clue why.
- The landlord just leased our space out from under us. We’ve got to find new space and move to it within 60 days.
- The Internet connection here is lame.
- We don’t have an employee manual, and it’s starting to become a problem.
- My sales guys don’t know how to sell big deals.
- I haven’t had a vacation in three years.
- This business is like a jail sentence.
- Everybody’s making money in this industry but us.
- Client projects are not getting done on time.
- I don’t know whether we are making money or losing money.
- We outsourced some things to another company and it’s not working out.
- Shoot. It looks like we have to do a product recall.
- The shrinkwrap machine is broken, which means we won’t be getting those orders out tonight. Customers are going to be pissed!