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Put Up or Shut Up!

PUT UP OR SHUT UP or Practice What You Preach. This mantra has many more implications and consequences than you think. You as the owner of your own business are the defacto leader of the company.

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MYTH – ENTREPRENEURS LOVE RISK

A rejection is not a failure. It should be viewed as an opportunity to learn. Successful entrepreneurs have the self-confidence to face all these ego risks and to put their energies into reducing or...

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7 TIPS ON BARTER FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Barter, is an $8-12 billion dollar industry,and is one of the businesses that flourishes in bad economies, as it offers entrepreneurs many opportunities to acquire things they need and want for little...

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GOVERNMENT HELP: AN OXYMORON?

Government help may sound like an oxymoron to many people. I know that when I was in my many Small Businesses, I never believed that any government help was of value and to get it was not worth the...

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Small Business Tip: Humans Should Answer Your Phone

As large companies get bigger and depersonalize themselves to save labor costs, they expose their vulnerability to Small Businesses.

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WHY THE $5,000 TAX CREDIT WON’T WORK

The President has proposed an up to $5,000 tax credit for Small Businesses for each employee they ADD in 2010, and an additional tax break for salary increases given to employees making under $100,000...

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Great Idea to WOW your Suppliers

When I blogged my earlier post on Suppliers, I received a great comment from Pierre Martell, the CEO of Martell Home Builders in Moncton, Canada, that I want to share with everyone. Their mission is to...

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Building Trust

The single most important thing you can do in starting and building a business is to get people to trust you. Trust needs to be earned and takes time, although you can lose it in a second. Telling...

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Solve Your Sales Problem

 Small businesses, particularly in their early stages, have two big problems. Selling is a learnable skill, and you don’t need a sales gene to be good at it. 1)    Access to customers. The business...

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Building Trust

The single most important thing you can do in starting and building a business is to get people to trust you. Trust needs to be earned and takes time, although you can lose it in a second. Telling...

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