5 Crucial Ways to Grow Your Small Business

Are you a small business owner? If so, you’re probably doing your level best to keep your customers happy and find ways of earning new ones, right? Well, there are a number of ways you could go about enhancing and growing your business. Regardless of whether you view success by looking at your profit margins,…

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Learning to Scale: The Secret Growth Weapon

Anyone involved in running a startup or small business knows you’re bound to run into unanticipated problems at some point. One of the most common problems that many small businesses encounter is their inability to scale; either efficiently or at all. As companies grow, management may find that they need a scalable means to distribute…

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Displacement Principle in Startups and Small Business

It’s really pretty simple. Intuitive. I didn’t learn about it in business school; I learned about it while building and running a real business. I decided to call it the displacement principle. Displacement Principle: In the real world of small business, everything you do rules out something else you can’t do. My favorite metaphor is dropping a…

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How to Break the $10 Million Ceiling in Your Business

Getting over the $10 million hump in our business has taken some time and has not been an overnight process, as some might think. My company, Star Staffing, has been in business since 1998. I joined the company in 2009 as vice president, and my business partner transitioned from CFO to CEO. We worked tirelessly on repositioning ourselves…

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3 Ways Data is the Key to Retail Growth

Data is more available and more easily accessible than ever before. However, if you do not know how to access it, or what to do with it when you get it, it doesn’t help you much. If you have the right data and know how to use it, you can grow your retail business exponentially.…

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What is Growth-Driven Design?

With the ever-evolving world of marketing, businesses are spending an excessive amount of time and money on traditional website redesign, usually resulting in late launches and budgetary overruns. Traditional website redesigns can be unpredictable and receive little or no periodic updating and improvement which, more often than not, necessitates a further redesign as soon as one-to-two…

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4 Bad Habits You Need to Break

Business owners these days rarely take the time to analyze the performance of their various ventures. With the emergence of a global economy that is literally a click away, most businesses—if not all—are too focused on pushing volumes and mutating the bottom line. One may be quick to defend this highly impersonal attitude as being…

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When It’s Time to Expand Your Business

If your company has seen consistent success for years, and the space you have just isn’t cutting it for all the customers lining up at your door, it may be time to expand your business. Perhaps it is time to take over an adjoining space or possibly open up an entirely new location or factory.…

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Building a Million Dollar Business

Reaching the one-million-dollar mark in your small business is a huge milestone for an entrepreneur. The question is, how do you get your startup business to that million-dollar goal? It’s tough, but it’s absolutely possible, as many entrepreneurs before you can prove. Keep the following tips in mind as you continue to grow your revenue.…

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15 Powerful Ways to Growth-Hack Your Social Media: Part 1

Let me start by asking you a question: How much time do you spend each week on social media? Does it amount to what you would describe as either “too much,” or “more than you’d like to”? Unless you outsource your social media, I’m guessing you answered yes. Breathe a sigh of relief, there’s a…

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