One great way to increase reach to potential new clients is a joint venture. By taking advantage of another business’s strength in an area where your business is weak and offering a complementary benefit to the other business, a joint venture arrangement can be beneficial to both businesses. For example, if you have a product […]
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So you want to be innovative in your business? Think about who you have on your team and you may be closer than you think! According to Leon Segal, founder of Innovationship LLC., “When striving for innovation, you need the four following characters on your team, even if some team members possess multiple traits.” Segal
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Some of us offer free products or services to win eyeballs and hope that wallets will follow. Small problem: It’s hard to support free forever. So how do you ease that transition? 1. If you are looking to offer your product or service for free, then keep it free or at the very least set
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All of you are viewing and checking your Google Analytics, right? But for those who are not sure what Google Analytics is about or what you are looking at if you are viewing analytics reports, here’s a quick primer on what you need to know. Visits represents the number of sessions on your website, the
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I often hear about how there is not enough time in the day to complete tasks or there are too many distractions during the day to keep me focused. I am sure you have considered some of the usual suspects such as checking emails as they come in and frequenting various websites. And I am
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Sticky subject time… In my world, there is a TON of content out there on how best to respond to proposals, how to interview in the best way possible, what you should and should not do on an interview; the list goes on. But what I don’t see a lot of is when the shoe
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I read the term “wantrepreneur” recently on an article on SmartBrief. I thought this was particularly interesting because those of us who are lucky enough to have been able to turn a dream in to a business, or took a concept to creation and made a business from it, there are others out there who
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Soooo…there’s been this nagging feeling, inkling, desire or all out run out the door feeling to switch careers. I think it’s safe to say that most, if not all of us have thought about that at one point (or multiple times) throughout our life. But what do you do? How do you know what you
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In order to be successful as a small business owner, you need to check in with yourself from time-to-time to really access where your business is. This is really the first step to making any type of change to your business. If you don’t know where you are currently at, it’s almost impossible to get
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I love coming across great nuggets of information and these success steps are no exception! Read on: 1. Realize you have the power to choose. You can choose how to think, how to feel and how to act. (Yes, you can!) The way you think determines where you end up. Pay attention to your thinking! Don’t
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