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13 Easy Ways to Be More Productive and More Relaxed

As a small business owner, your time is incredibly valuable, and usually quite limited. You seem to spend hours at your desk tapping away, but sometimes you don’t actually achieve a lot. Here are some…

Two Lists Successful Leaders Make Every Day

Q: What can the 80s rock band The Police teach us about leadership? A: Turns out they planted a seed in me that has grown into a useful business practice. That practice, which I have…

Small Business Leadership: Are You a Queen Bee or a Worker Bee?

“Nothing gets done around here unless I do it myself!” Have you ever said that? If you have, it may be telling you a lot about your leadership. While it’s important for small business leaders…

6 Tips for Staying Energized in Your Business

Being a small business owner is tough work, trust me on this one. There are a multitude of tasks that need to be done every day to ensure your business stays running smoothly and efficiently….

How to Think Like a Growth CEO

Growth CEO’s differ from those who merely station—keep their way into the status quo, protecting the enterprise by reducing risk and cost, without creating a vision and action plan for growth. Here is a way…

10 Ways to Show You Care in the New Year

How about making a New Year’s resolution that you’ll do more for your community? The concept of “giving back” can grow stale unless we all put forth some real effort. Let’s face it, there are do’ers and those with…

Your Small Business YouTube Strategy: 8 Videos You Should Be Using

Sometimes the world of online video can seem like it’s in an incredible a state of turmoil. Right now Twitter is either shutting down or selling Vine. Blab is being repurposed (maybe). Yet for your…

How Entrepreneurs Overcome Fear

I’ll let you in on a little secret: Entrepreneurs are scared. They are scared of failing. They are scared of getting fired or losing control. They are scared of not being able to close a…

Personal Equals Professional: We Are One

One of the downsides of our digitally driven lives is that the dotted line is no more. What I mean by that is that you used to be able to artificially draw a dotted line…

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I was recently asked to give a presentation on what students can do/learn so they can keep up with the ever-changing landscape of business and marketing today. As I was preparing the material to deliver,…

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