What Does Science Tell Us About the Key Secret to Happiness?

What are your goals? Become an entrepreneur. Climb the corporate ladder. Make more money. It may be to travel the world as a digital nomad. But the reason we write these goals down and strive to achieve them comes down to this big question. “How can I be happier?” The disease of more In our crazy…

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4 Surefire Ways to Ramp Up Your Networking Results

Getting started as a small business owner is tough enough. You’re trying to build a solid team, perfect your product, and create a marketing strategy. That doesn’t leave you with a lot of time to network. However, you absolutely need to make it a priority as a new entrepreneur. If you don’t, you’ll be missing…

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How to Manage Customer Relations on a Budget

Customer service is one of the highest priorities for any small business. Good customer service creates good customers. Good customers are reliable source of revenue who will advertise your products on social media and with friends and family. As Entrepreneur points out, good customer service means better employees, fewer problems, and a whole host of…

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6 Relationship Strategies That Propel Your Business

Unfortunately, people who are great at inventing things, and have high creativity, often don’t have strong interpersonal skills or interests. As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I see a high level of frustration from people in this category who have personally developed great solutions, but can’t make them into a business. They don’t realize that…

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Networking for Entrepreneurs (Why It Matters & How to Do It Right)

Being an entrepreneur offers tremendous perks… You’re the boss, free to pursue your dreams, managing your own time. But the life of an entrepreneur also comes with some significant downsides, namely in the form of stress, uncertainty, and often social isolation. Social isolation in the US is growing, and data gathered in new research is…

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Business Ethics: When It’s OK to Burn Bridges

If you’re like me, you’ve heard this saying fairly consistently while growing up, through your first jobs, University, and into the business world: “Don’t burn bridges.” If you haven’t heard this saying before, then let me break it down for you a little. Burning bridges basically means you’re ending a work relationship, or even personal…

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How Size Matters in Brand Partnerships

Brand partnerships can be a great growth strategy for businesses as small as the health club on the corner or as large as Coca-Cola. But as with dating apps, you need to be extremely careful who you hook up with. One of the most important elements to consider is size. But don’t merely look at…

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Are You Building a Community?

Last year, I spent a weekend with my daughter and her boyfriend at a Supernatural Convention in Chicago. If you’re not familiar with the TV show Supernatural it’s in its 13th season, largely due to the huge fan base that it has built and how vocal they are about the show and its very existence.…

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It’s Harder to Sell Within Our Own Companies

Tibor Shanto posed an interesting situation in a LinkedIn discussion: Got an interesting question or scenario for people who work with sales managers, presented by an experienced sales manager and her new company. She was invited to join the company because of her track record in the industry. They wanted her to establish a similar…

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