Extending Your Runway
Use your board to help you to navigate through control over these five resources. If you don’t have a viable, relevant board, build one no matter what your size and stage of development. One thing is usually sure: an entrepreneur cannot successfully do it all alone.
Read More 4 Success Strategies I Took from the NFL to My Business
If football taught me anything about business, it’s that you win the game one play at a time. It’s an analogy I’ve used in the past. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, I face many of the same challenges I did on the field and I use similar strategies for tackling them.
Read More 5 Tips on Targeted Direct Mail Marketing for Small Businesses
Digital media has emerged as a great marketing platform for small businesses. It has made it possible for small and medium-size businesses to spread the word about their products and services in a cost-effective manner.
Read More 10 Key Steps to Build Rapport on the Phone
At a recent sales conference I took notes as the keynote speaker argued that our words account for only 7 percent of our communication effectiveness. Tonality accounts for 38 per cent and body language 55 per cent.
Read More Quick Quiz: What Do Investors Cite as the Common Cause of Failures?
What do venture capitalists and angel investors cite as the common cause of the failures in their portfolios? That’s a great question, which somebody posed in Quora. And as I write this post, it has several really interesting answers.
Read More The “Secret” to Overnight Success: What You Can Learn from Drake
For a long time, I was EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED. I was sick of being stuck in the same place, and I would have done anything to get massive results really quickly.
Read More 5 End-of-Year Tax Tips to Cut Your Taxes Before 2015
With Thanksgiving and the holiday season upon us, it’s easy to get caught up in buying turkeys and finding stocking stuffers for the grandkids. However, it’s also a great time to start thinking about reducing your taxes and planning for April 15th.
Read More 6 Ways for Leaders to Create Organizational Change
How you approach change is just as important as what you want to change in your organization. If you want to be a transformative leader and create long lasting organizational change, you need to approach it in a way which minimizes negative reactions, is aligned with business strategies and corporate cultures, and is inclusive in nature.
Read More Big Data and Retailers [Infographic]
Savvy retailers are harnessing the power of big data by combining data from a number of sources such as web browsing patterns, social media and industry forecasts.
Read More The 7 Stages of Facing Change in Business
Sometimes change in business comes when you least expect it. Things are going along perfectly, and then BOOM. A big client leaves. A competitor moves in across the street. Something happens that changes, well, everything.
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