Why Most Profitable Businesses Are Proactive!
February 2nd, 2012 – Most profitable businesses got that way by being proactive, developing a plan, and then most importantly taking action accordingly…
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When Should Owners Develop An Exit Strategy?
January 19th, 2012 – Many times an owner of a business, particularly a family owned business, will question when they should develop an exit strategy from that business…
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Plan to Grow Your Small Business in 2012
January 5th, 2012 – If you’re tempted by the growth bug, the first priority is to take a close look at your business and decide whether you really want to expand…
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Small Business to Large Business Transformation
December 22nd, 2011 – If you have a successful small business, you may be at the point in your career where you are considering expansion to increase your business and your money…
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Get Clear! How to Gain Clarity So You Can See More Success
December 8th, 2011 – Clarity about what you want in your business is absolutely priceless. If you’ve ever been stopped dead in your tracks because you don’t know what to do first or where to go, you can appreciate that…
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Small Business Marketing and Three Common Mistakes
November 24th, 2011 – Marketing is a challenge. Period, no doubt about it. It is also critical to the success of a business…
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5 Top Small Business Marketing Blunders You Should Never Commit
November 10th, 2011 – There are tons of small business resources available both online and offline. Many of these resources can help you to avoid mistakes that others before you have made, thereby saving you time and money…
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The Curse of Work Life Balance
October 27th, 2011 – If the concept of Work Life Balance worked surely we would all be living our ideal by now. After all, it is something the majority of people strive to achieve but it somehow stays strangely elusive…
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5 Successful People Who Failed Horribly in Their Journey
October 13th, 2011 – Having success will take you time and effort. And SURE, many times you will fail before you are even successful…
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Boost Your Business Performance by Taking Time Out
September 29th, 2011 – Have you ever had that experience where you get out of town, perhaps it feels like hard work to actually make it happen, but as soon as you get into a new environment you realise how much you needed a break…
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Is Dreaming Big Hurting Your Business?
September 15th, 2011 – The title of this article may have caught you off guard – since I always encourage people to THINK and DREAM BIG…
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Small Business Tip: Get Off the Bandwagon
September 1st, 2011 – If you run a small business, it is increasingly important to stay ‘ahead of the game’ instead of just being a player…
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What to Do With Customers That Won’t Pay Their Bills?
August 4th, 2011 – There has been a lot of discussion lately on one of the forums in the appliance service industry on what to do about customers that refuse to pay for services rendered…
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The First Steps in Improving Your Small Business
July 21st, 2011 – There is a massive cry from business consultants recommending that small business owners take the time to improve their business to deal with the current market climate. The question is where do you start?
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Make Marketing Your Business a Top Priority
July 7th, 2011 – Where does improving the results from your advertising, sales and marketing rank on your company’s “bucket list”? If it’s not one of your top priorities for this year and beyond, then you are putting the business at risk…
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The Benefits of Team Building Activities
June 23rd, 2011 – It is important for co-workers to feel a bond with one another and be willing to work together…
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Customers’ Praise - Making the Most of It
May 26th, 2011 – As a small business owner, it is essential that you make your customers happy! A happy customer is a repeat customer. A happy customer tells other people who in turn, hopefully, become happy customers…
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How Important Are Good Habits In Building Your Business?
May 12th, 2011 – “We are what we repeatedly do” – Aristotle. You’ve probably once heard it said that thoughts become things. Perhaps, you’ve read somewhere that our thoughts become our actions, actions become habits and habits eventually become character.
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Reducing Fixed Costs - 3 Sure Fire Ways to Save Money Today
April 28th, 2011 – In this tough economy, many business owners are looking for ways to save money. Sometimes we overlook a few truly basic but fundamental ways to reduce our fixed expenses.
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Email and Internet Usage at Work - A Right or a Privilege?
April 14th, 2011 – Employees spend on average 8 hours or more a day on the job working at least 5 days a week. Is there any harm in allowing staff to use the email or the Internet on occasion?
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Preparing Your Business So You Can Take a Holiday
March 31st, 2011 – If you find that you’re only ever taking short 2 or 3 day breaks here and there because you are worried that your business won’t cope while you’re away, then this article will shed some light on some key things you can do in the lead up to your holiday so that you can take a decent break to recharge your batteries and spend time with your family…
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How to Remain Cool With an Irate Caller
March 17th, 2011 – If you’re in business, you can never really avoid meeting irate people. These are the ones who will scream, curse, or even threaten to sue you for a lot of reasons…
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Small Goal Setting to Get to the Big Ones
March 3rd, 2011 – When it comes to making your dreams a reality there are many different ways that people go about trying to accomplish it…
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Sales Truth Number One: No One Wants What You Are Selling - Really
February 17th, 2011 – This article is for you if you don’t like to sell, think you can’t sell, really hate to sell, and hate salespeople…
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Internet Marketing 101
February 3rd, 2011 – Internet marketing can be used for a wide variety of businesses. There are many different tools to use with marketing online and which ones your business will use depends on the size of your business and the type.
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Not So Different After All: Social Online and Face-To-Face Networking
January 20th, 2011 – If you’ve been feeling that social media networking is invasive or a waste of time, you’re not alone. The ability to reach many people inexpensively has become popular especially with small business owners, some of them brand new entrepreneurs. With so many people trying to navigate this technology, there are a lot of missteps and misconceptions, but much of it has to do with the underlying mindset going into it.
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5 Steps to Ensure Your Success in 2011
January 6th, 2011 – So many people go from one year to another without much thought to their goals and plans for the next 12 months. Most people spend more time on planning their holidays than they do planning their careers/businesses and then wonder why they never really achieve their goals. What about you?
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The Customer Is Always Right - Are They Really?
December 26th, 2010 – Is the customer always right? Usually, the answer is yes. However, there are three important exceptions to this rule. Some customers are not worth pursuing, and are best sent to your competition…
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Is Your Business Visible?
December 9th, 2010 – Today I made a phone call to a local dentist as part of my duties as an ambassador for our local Chamber of Commerce. I always ask if there is something that the Chamber can do for your business when I make these calls. His response was “Send me business.” Keep in mind that we live in a relatively small town and I had never heard of this dentist – to me he was not visible.
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The Ground Up - Starting the Foundation For Sales Success
November 25th, 2010 – As a business development professional / sales representative before you can go out into the world and consistently hit million dollar quotas as well as bring home enough commission to be within the $200,000 compensation range, you must build a foundation comprised of the most basic sales skills.
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Renting Trade Show Booths
November 11th, 2010 – Trade shows have these days become a vital part of an organization’s marketing campaign. They are extremely useful for introducing and promoting the company’s products.
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Facts and Advice About Business Growth
October 30th, 2010 – Why is it that some companies set a clear path for growth whilst others simply go day to day, putting out one fire after another?
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How to Market Your Business With a Small Budget
October 14th, 2010 – Many small businesses have great products and services to offer the public. However, the bigger companies may seem to swallow all of the potential consumers with their fancy, big account advertising…
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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
October 1st, 2010 – Think and Grow Rich was published by Napoleon Hill in 1937. Since then, the ideas expressed in Think and Grow Rich have led to the creation of more than a million millionaires…
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Top 10 Press Release Mistakes
September 16th, 2010 – There are good reasons why some press releases generate a journalistic frenzy and others fall flat. You can learn a lot about how to write and distribute great press releases by examining some of the common public relations mistakes companies make…
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How to Price Your Service
September 2nd, 2010 – Do you find yourself wondering how calculate the price for your service? Many people who start their own business are experts on the services that they provide, however they aren’t so sure how to price them…
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Business Basics: Password Safety on the Internet
August 19th, 2010 – As someone who’s seen the ins and outs of businesses all over the web, I’m asking you to read this article and protect your business. (And spread the word, too)…
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How to Crawl Out of Failure’s Rubble
August 5th, 2010 – After you’ve been successful for a time it’s easy to tell who is not very successful even from very short conversations. They give all kinds of subtle clues. Some of those clues aren’t very subtle at all…
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The Importance of Financial Management For Small Businesses
July 22nd, 2010 – Financial management is crucially important to the future growth or failure of small businesses. How the finances are used and accounted for could become the “make it or break it” point for a small business…
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The Small Business Financing Crisis
July 8th, 2010 – The current small business credit crunch is getting much attention and rightly so. We know very little about the overall small business universe because it is so huge and diverse…
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Not All Sales Professionals Are Created Equal: Here’s Why
June 25th, 2010 – Not all sales professionals are created equal. Here are six reasons why…
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Small Business Success Tips – Time Management
June 10th, 2010 – Time is a funny animal. Time can fly, and it can crawl. Time can disappear. Time can stretch and shrink. Time can be gorgeous, or give you nightmares. Time can be your friend and it can be your enemy. Time, in other words, is not dependable. You cannot tell it what to do…
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Why Most Business Owners Aren’t Productive
May 28th, 2010 – I made a post on Facebook the other day which read… “One of the secrets of life is making stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” And a number of people liked it, so I want to talk about that now…
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Why Entrepreneurship is Better Than Any Self-improvement Program You Can Think Of
May 13th, 2010 – Entrepreneurship is self-improvement. When people think of self-improvement, starting a business is not the first thing that comes to mind…
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Importance of Local Free Online Business Listings
April 30th, 2010 – Those who are already experts when it comes to Search Engine Optimization or SEO know that local free online business listings are very important whether for small and medium businesses which are focused on a specific region…
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Checking For Identity Theft
April 16th, 2010 – With identity theft a growing and persistent problem, you should do everything in your power to keep your information safe. Here are some ways to make sure you are not being victimized…
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Competition is Healthy for Business
April 2nd, 2010 – Every business has competition. And competition is really healthy when you think about it. It inspires you to do better and keep on improving so you can achieve more with every passing day…
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Making a Claim For Business Interruption
March 26th, 2010 – If your offices have been affected by fire, floods or storm damage, more likely than not you will have incurred a significant amount of time where normal service was impossible…
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Voice Over IP Phone Systems – How Do They Benefit Small Businesses?
March 12th, 2010 – Small businesses do not have the same options as large concerns in adopting new technologies and tools…
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How to Choose the Right Software For Your Business
February 26th, 2010 – The decision to invest in technology for your business may be a costly and time-intensive undertaking due to the sheer
number of products currently on the market…
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Small Business Marketing Tips – 5 Ways To Market Your Small Business Online
February 12th, 2010 – As small businesses naturally don’t have the necessary resources to launch huge marketing campaigns, they will have to compensate this with resourcefulness and innovation…
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The Role Of Words In Our Communicating Effectiveness
January 29th, 2010 – Words fitly spoken are like apples of Gold in a picture of Silver - this saying by a man of wisdom spells out the importance of using proper words. It is a skill. It is the skill of communicating…
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3 Things That Will Increase Your Sales
January 15th, 2010 – There isn’t any magic bullet in what you’re about to read, but there are always things that you can do that without a doubt will increase your sales…
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How to Create a Basic Businesses Disaster Recovery Plan in 4 Steps
December 11th, 2009 – Loss of data is a common problem for businesses. Fortunately, it’s a problem that can easily be avoided with the correct preparation…
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Successful Outsourcing
November 27th, 2009 – Small businesses can rarely afford the luxury of a large full time staff, with all the skill sets needed for the functioning of the business…
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Seven Ways To Get Proactive Instead Of Worrying About A Recession
November 13th, 2009 – Aren’t you tired of hearing about all the worries of recession, depression, economic downturn and the like…
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Small Business Opportunity Faux Pas
October 30th, 2009 – Running a successful small business is definitely partly about identifying opportunities and acting on them…
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How to Build Your Business With Referrals
October 16th, 2009 – Customer satisfaction is at the top of the list of priorities for businesses as they strive to be the best they can be in order to not only excel in business to make money but also in generating repeat sales and referrals…
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Thriving on Discontinuous Change
October 2nd, 2009 – IBM’s 2008 Global CEO Study finds that organizations are being bombarded by change, and many are struggling to keep up…
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How to Build a World-class Business
September 18th, 2009 – Building a business takes hard work. That’s one reason that many small businesses fail: not enough focused effort in doing the things that need to be done in order to succeed…
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Take Care of Your Customers Before Someone Else Does
September 4th, 2009 – Have you ever heard of the saying that “if you do not take care of your customers, someone else will?” There is truth to the saying…
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