3 Tips for Financing Your Dental Practice

Opening your own dental practice is a huge step. Whether you are starting out on your own, or you are branching out from an already established business, it is going to be a challenge in many ways. One of the first challenges to overcome is that of financing. Consider Dental Practice Working Capital Loans These…

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How is a Business Ecosystem a Key Driver to Success?

In a Harvard Magazine interview, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, explained: “In Silicon Valley, there is a sense that you prosper only because you’re surrounded by lots of resources that make it possible to succeed, beyond what your own entity controls. Think of it as your garden,…

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How to Optimize My Landing Pages

Are you driving traffic to your website? My guess would be yes, but the real question is what are you doing with those visitors once they land on your homepage (or any page on your site for that matter)? Do you want them to arrive, poke around, soak up a few tidbits about your company,…

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What Uber Is and Isn’t—and How You Can Benefit

Uber is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it certainly has accomplished a lot in five years. It’s hard to imagine another company that has so quickly established a global presence. The last figures I saw said that Uber operates in 300 cities strewn across 58 countries. Let’s compare it to Starbucks, which certainly has an…

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The Examples We Set, Our People Are Watching

As managers and leaders, we create (consciously or unconsciously) dozens of “training” moments for our people, every day. Our people watch our every move, drawing conclusions about what they should be doing, how they should be behaving, where they should invest their time, and what their priorities are. What we do and how we act…

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The Fragility of Receptivity

In John David Mann’s and my Go-Giver book series we discuss the fifth and final law, that of Receptivity and how challenging it can be for so many. In one sense, the abundance of lack messages permeating our daily lives can create a focus on what is missing rather than on all the natural prosperity…

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Franchise Health: How to Get a True Read

Investing in a franchise is no small commitment. Depending on the longevity and brand recognition, the initial franchise fee could be anywhere from $10,000-$50,000 for a single unit. Add that to the initial start-up cost and your financial investment could be upwards of several hundred thousand dollars. Bottom line: That’s a substantial financial commitment. In…

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The 6 Types of Entrepreneur

Are you a world changer? An innovator? An opportunist or a jack of all trades? Maybe you’re a serial entrepreneur—or are you actually a wantrepreneur? These are the six major types of entrepreneurs out there, and you likely fall into one of these categories. No one type is better than the other, although the wantrepreneur…

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3 Key Considerations for Launching a Successful Online Store

You might have started your eCommerce business on niche sites such as Amazon or Ebay. But if your business growth is huge, it shouldn’t be too long before you feel the need to launch your own online store. Owning your own e-store will help you give your eCommerce business a brand identity. Also, it will…

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Should Your Next Business Loan Be Secured or Unsecured?

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One of the biggest decisions a business has to make when seeking finance is whether to choose a secured or unsecured loan. In simple terms, a secured loan is taken out against agreed collateral, with the lender holding a legal charge or debenture on a specific asset. Should the loan not be repaid, the lender…

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