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Lesson #3: Make Sure You Are Not Missing the Market
Johnson opened up his first movie theatre in the Los Angeles inner-city area of Baldwin Hills. It was an area notorious for being home to the Bloods and Crips gangs, and everybody around him kept telling Johnson he was crazy.

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Running a Small Business: Tips on Keeping All the Balls in the Air
One of the challenges in starting and growing a small business is fitting in all the work. You wear so many hats, and have so many details to handle; it is hard to accomplish everything each day.

Referrals: Now They\'re Asking and You\'re Making
As entrepreneurs and salespeople, referrals are our lifeblood because they jumpstart the trust-building with potential customers, partners and suppliers. In my last column I wrote about the oft-forgotten sales and networking tactic of asking our customers for referrals. Now, let's switch hats for a moment. What happens when we're the ones receiving the request? It's certainly a familiar situation, because we're as well-connected as they come.
Guerrilla Television
Television time is more inexpensive than ever. It can also be more effective than ever if you understand it. This column will help.

Increase Your Sales with Actionable Emails
I hate long emails. They take too long to read and typically include action items I just don’t have time for. No doubt you’ve experienced it, too. Your customers are no different and it’s impacting your ability to close sales.

Focus on your strengths
Relinquish hats of responsibility so you can focus on the core for sake of the company.
Leadership, Management, and Coaching
Leadership, Management & Coaching: Every business leader - YOU - needs to wear each of these hats and to become very adept at knowing when, where and with whom to wear each one. What will make the biggest impact?
Got Team?
As an entrepreneur, you wear a lot of hats in your business, don't you! You're smart. You know you need to have the right help so you can be super productive and profitable in your business and you are probably already outsourcing certain tasks and responsibilities. That's a great start. But let me ask you, how well is it working for you? Do you have an ideal team in place? Is it easy and almost effortless for you to work with your team and together create awesome results? Here's what I've discovered. Most entrepreneurs and business owners aren't having ideal experiences with creating their own strong team".

Accessories for Your Personal and Professional WOW Factor
Make the most of your best!
David Letterman Style Top 10 Twitter Words
I’ve been up to my eyeballs lately in Twitter and Twitter Words. Attempting to break down what at first glance seems like such a simple thing: A How To On Twitter. My goal is to reach the most phobic of computer users, this may not be you but what I’ve discovered along the way should be interesting to anyone, Twitterer or not.

Do people know what you do?
I was with a business contact of mine the other day and mentioned a project that we were working on for a client of ours. To my surprise he said to me, “I didn’t know you did that!”
MLB All-Star Game Unveils a Sales Prodigy
Tom Schaff, Sales Development Expert in St. Louis, related a very funny story about events before and after the MLB All-Star Game. Here is Tom's story:
Retail Partnerships
Partnering with restaurants and other retailers can be a powerful way of driving traffic and loyalty.
Leaders Should Think Bigger
You know who you know… Who don’t you know that you need to know to expand your circle of influence?

Follow Through or Foul Up
As entrepreneurs, we are usually great at coming up with ideas to promote our business. We know that it's not rocket science, and yet we struggle time and time again getting our ideas off the ground. This isn't really surprising because on top of wearing our marketing hat, we are also wearing our operational, financial, IT and HR hats. Yet when we look at all the different roles we have to play in our businesses, it is truly our sales and marketing hat that can fast track our business to the next level. So how can we ensure that we allocate it the time it deserves? More importantly how do we know that we are fully following through?

Simple Pictures Are Best
The "simple pictures" rule tells us that if you have a business or practice and are looking to market it, the simplest marketing picture is probably the best.
Real Work at Home Jobs - Why Cant You Find One?
With the rise of work at home opportunists comes more real work at home jobs. But before you start throwing your hats up in the air consider what youre about to read very carefully. The supply will probably never meet the demand when it comes to real work at home jobs.

The Art of Recreating Yourself
Whatever business each of us finds ourselves operating everyday, we got there for one reason or another. It can be a business we truly have a passion for, or in some cases one we thought we would, turning out that we didn’t. Or perhaps there are aspects of the business where our passion lies and other parts that we avoid creating a big disconnect for us in the entire business.

How Organized Is Your Business? Part 1
According to the Small Business Administration small businesses make up more than 99.7 percent of all employees. Add to that the latest figures that show small businesses create 75% of the net new jobs in our economy and you can see how important small businesses are.
Organized Business! How Organized is Yours?
According to the Small Business Administration small businesses make up more than 99.7 percent of all employees. Add to that the latest figures that show small businesses create 75% of the net new jobs in our economy and you can see how important small businesses are. Small Business Owners have a very challenging job. Many small business owners go into an industry because it matches their passion or is something that they are really good at. What many start up business owners do not realize is that it takes a LOT more than being good in a particular industry to successfully run a business.
Smart Women Have Dreams Too!
What fuels you? What’s your dream moving forward into 2008? When you land on where your energy and passions are, you feel this incredible sense of being alive with possibilities. Everything seems possible.

SEM Industry Standards Nonsense or Necessary
Does the search engine marketing industry need standards? Should there be an industry body to oversee these standards? Kalena Jordan of Search Engine College presents both sides of the debate.

No More Wrong Steps How to Make the Most of Each Step You Take for Your Business
My first call with a new branding client, Janie, a down-to-earth realtor from Atlanta, GA, began like hundreds before, with Janie saying, “After spending 18 months and $12,300 on designing my logo, collateral, and website, I’m not any where close to communicating my business the way I want to. I’m afraid all my decisions to this point have been wrong and I’m afraid to make anymore.”

What Mask Are You Wearing?
Do you often feel that you have to pretend to be someone that you're not in order to fit in with a group of individuals at work or in a social setting? Do you feel like you are always having to prove yourself? What are you really proving and who are you really proving it to? What mask are you wearing?
Business Advisors: Results Are the Top Priority
If you want to set your consulting and coaching practice apart, you should be able to explain exactly the results you get for clients — and those results should be compelling. But what exactly are results?
Can Multitasking Ruin Your Work Life Balance?
We have become so conditioned to multitasking that we have forgotten how to be 'fully present' and do just one thing at a time? Yet this is one of the keys to successfully balancing your work and family life.

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Can You Make Your Hobby Into A Business
My client, Jenny, showed me a small selection of knitted wool hats that she had made. She said she had dozens of them in her house. She wondered about the possibility of going into business selling these hats. Up to now she had sold a few to friends without any effort. Wouldn’t it be nice to sell them to others! Maybe-on a website.

Understand Your Roles
How many hats do you wear? Well, not literally, of course. You hear that phrase all of the time. Wearing many hats. What that essentially means is that in life, we all have different roles that we play in different groups. If you don't consider those roles, it can cause you time management issues down the line.
Re-Organizational Chart
Most small businesses start with a good idea, an individual with a skill set who turns the idea into a revenue producing business, some investors or personal savings, and patience and perseverance. The founding father or mother wore many hats at the beginning and over time handed these hats to individuals who were hired to help as the business grew. Sometimes growth came so quickly that there was a rush to judgement as to how many and who to hire as well as their areas of responsibility. This was a good problem to have because sales were increasing and the dream of growth was coming true.

Small Businesses Get BIG Results With Business Gifts
Owning a small business means wearing a lot of different “hats” – and often serving as your own marketing department as well. That’s where business gifts can have such a big impact.
Leadership, Management, and Coaching
Leadership, Management & Coaching: Every business leader - YOU - needs to wear each of these hats and to become very adept at knowing when, where and with whom to wear each one. What will make the biggest impact?
Focus on your strengths
Relinquish hats of responsibility so you can focus on the core for sake of the company.
Google Wonder Wheel - A Powerful Keyword Discovery Tool That Assists Marketers
Google has done it again, this time with a keyword discovery tool they call Wonder Wheel. This is incredible, so hang on to your hats!
The Heroes Organize Their Business
We have many equally important business functions competing for time slots. This is the management task of deciding who does what, where and when. In large organizations, this will mean handing over responsibilities and the authority to suitable persons and departments. In many of our smaller organizations, this means wearing one hat for the hour or day, and wearing different hats during the other hours and the other days. Either way, keep the hats stylish and comfortable. Nobody wants to wear a frumpy hat.

Running a Small Business: Tips on Keeping All the Balls in the Air
One of the challenges in starting and growing a small business is fitting in all the work. You wear so many hats, and have so many details to handle; it is hard to accomplish everything each day.

Improve Your Bottom-line by Outsourcing
You are a busy business owner who wears many hats in your business, right? How many hats are you wearing today? Are you the only person who can do all those tasks, wear all those hats? Or is it out of habit that you do? Or maybe you’ve never considered which of those tasks could be done by someone else.
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