Strategic Planning
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…
Are You One of These Kinds of Procrastinators? Get Moving!
Staring at you is a blank, virtual sheet of paper with a blinking line, waiting for your words to fill the entire page. Writing your proposal, which is the very first thing on your To-do…
10 Steps to Profitable Strategic Business Decisions
Most entrepreneurs are so overwhelmed by the day-to-day challenges of their business that they rarely take the time to work on longer-term strategy (they work in the business versus on the business). As a result, strategy decisions are made…
3 Secrets to Making Better Decisions
Business owners and managers always must rely on making the right decisions, both in terms of following trends and bringing innovative ways to make their business more successful. But dealing with the process of making…
Akrasia May Be Holding You Back!
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. ~Aristotle So…
Sideways Thinking: How to Change the Direction of Your Business
There is one quality that no business owner or entrepreneur could survive without, and that’s the ability to adapt. From Darwin to Einstein, the greatest thinkers in history have agreed that those most likely to…
Organized Options: How to Become a More Effective Employee
Back in 2008, America’s financial crisis left hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for work. It also forced many workers to reevaluate their worth in the workplace and what they had to offer. One of…
Small Business Taboos You Should Break
There are certain taboos in the small business world that are age old. They keep being handed down, but they do not necessarily work anymore. A new generation of business owners is taking the reins…
Overcome Burnout and Forge Ahead
It’s okay, you can admit it. You’re definitely not alone, some may experience once in their lives while others go through it multiple times. It’s the dreaded burnout, the ever-building struggle of staying energized and passionate…
11 Key Elements of a Good Business Plan
Somebody asked me what the key elements of a good business plan were, and I’m glad they did—it’s one of my favorite topics. It gives me a chance to review and revise another of the…
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