4 Ways Earning an MBA Could Help Your Small Business Succeed

You don’t need formal education to succeed as an entrepreneur. However, a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) can sometimes help to put you on the fast track to business success by offering you numerous massive benefits and advantages. Let’s take a look at 4 of the most important ways earning an MBA can help you…

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5 Ways Small Business Owners Can Benefit from Going Back to School

Many small business owners want to advance their education, but question whether they can find time to return to school. Weighing these factors is quite challenging. The entrepreneurs have countless personal and business responsibilities. Despite this fact, they are aware that devoting time to an advanced degree can give them a competitive edge in a…

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5 Ways to Be Your Own Boss Without a Degree

While a college degree was once necessary to avoid the corporate world and become your own boss, there are more opportunities than ever today that don’t require one. Each of these five jobs gives you the opportunity to become your own boss without first earning a college degree. Web Designer The internet has become a…

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4 Crucial Issues Every Entrepreneur Should Care About

As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to get caught up in what you’re doing on a daily basis. You might forget about some of the social, economic, and environmental issues facing our world, because you’re just trying to get your product to market or work all the bugs out of your service. In fact, you might…

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Small Business in a Time of Technophobia

If there’s one thing that absolutely will not stop, it’s the inexorable march of technology and innovation. Unfortunately, too many small business owners either don’t understand or are plain ignorant of this fact. According to the first ever CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey, only about 36 percent of respondents use a business website to communicate news…

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What They Don’t Teach You in Business School About Being an Entrepreneur

Here’s something they don’t teach in business school: At some point, starting a company will give you a stomachache. It will be caused by some combination of unrelenting stress, constant uncertainty and too much late night takeout from a greasy Chinese place. Running a business is hard, but it’s not hard like a math test or a marathon.…

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The Success Habit That Many Smart People Ignore

He was bullied so much at school that he was once thrown down a flight of stairs, then beaten until he was unconscious and hospitalized. But despite the outsider tag he had a passion. Born in a small town in South Africa and to the son of a dietitian he had a love of reading. His brother…

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Tax Advantages: Reimbursing Employees for Education

Reimbursing employees for education expenses can both strengthen the capabilities of your staff and help you retain them. In addition, you and your employees may be able to save valuable tax dollars. But you have to follow IRS rules. Here are a couple of options for maximizing tax savings. An Employee Fringe Benefit Qualifying reimbursements…

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