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Lesson #1: Keep The Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
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| “In the 1970s, I filled my ranks with managers from all different walks of life who generally were very savvy to the ways of big business,” recalls Vernon, “and they almost killed us.” |
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Getting Corporate Sponsorship
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| "I run an event management and promotions company and put on seminars and events for small business owners. I'm trying to attract major corporations to sponsor my events. I have a strong value proposition and a targeted community of small business owners who attend. I don't have any connections into these large corporations. How do you suggest I break the ice to introduce my company to them without a warm lead in?" |
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Asking for Feedback
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| It is always wise to encourage clients to ask for feedback from an advisory board or their ideal clients when delivering new creative, be it for a web site, a brochure, a new logo or even a rebrand. It is also important that the client provide the creative team with background re who their audience is, how the piece will be used and what they are trying to achieve.
In this article, I include tips on how to get useful client/peer input on everything from logos to web design, to content. |
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Self-Employed Health Care Insurance Choices
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| Even owners of very small businesses have several choices when it comes to medical care coverage. They can find coverage on their own through the non-group market. They may be able to get coverage as a one-man or one-woman group. They may be able to get coverage through their spouse's employer-sponsored policy. |
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Factoring Can Provide Funds for Businesses in a Cash Flow Crunch
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| The process of factoring, or selling off accounts receivables, can be a valuable lifeline when companies hit a cash flow crunch. Find the right partner by seeking out a funding firm that deals with exactly your specifications. How does factoring work and what should you ask before getting involved? |
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Why Now is an Ideal Time to Own a Home-Based Business
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| If rising gas prices and plummeting temperatures have led you to think about the numerous advantages that home-based business models offer, you're not alone.
From large corporations that rely on employees, freelancers and contractors who work remotely, to small companies that operate from a home-office, a wide-range of businesses are recognizing the benefits and reaping the rewards that home-based business models provide.
If you'd like to join the ranks of home-based business owners, there are numerous work-at-home franchises and business opportunities, in diverse industry categories to choose from.
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Guesses aren't good enough... Evaluating PR
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| Organisations, whether they are small businesses, not-for-profit bodies, public sector organisations or large corporations, need to have evidence that their PR function is making a real impact. They need to see that they are getting good value for the money they are investing. But it isn't easy and many businesses and practitioners won't know where to start. |
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5 Great Ways to Add Social Networking to Your Marketing Mix
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| Do you think that sites like Twitter and Facebook are a waste of time? Well think again. You can actually use social networking to build your business. Here's how. |
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How to Choose a Home Business
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| In this economic downturn, more people are turning to self employment and home based businesses. Large corporations are dropping like flies, increasing lay-offs and/or filing for bankruptcy. If you are one of the millions that has decided to become an entrepreneur, there are a few things that you need to consider before making a decision as to what kind of home based business you will establish.
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Diamonds Are A Cereal Marketer's Best Friend
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| When C.W. Post started a small business in 1895 with his first batch of "Postum" (breakfast cereal) he probably did not foresee his company getting into the diamond business. The cereal company has "followed a path of delicious innovation, creating cereals that have defined the breakfast experience for generations of families" and now it has literally put a twist on its "Shreddies" product by offering the cereal in the shape of diamonds rather than squares. |
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The Specialization-Differentiation Imperative
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| How to carve out your own slice in the market and charge more, attract more clients and enjoy greater confidence.
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Efficient Sales Travel Planning: Reduce Costs and Increase Sales
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| When the going gets tough, the tough look for new ways to get the job done. Today’s laptop mapping programs will help your sales team get the job done - reducing travel costs, while increasing your sales. Prior planning prevents poor performance, so stop doing it the way you've always done it. Shake things up, make your team more efficient and make this your best sales year ever. |
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How To Sell To Large Corporations When You are a One-Person Business
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| Know what you can and cannot do for a large corporation. |
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You Are A Brand
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| Developing a strong sense of who we are takes both introspection and courage, but it is the core of finding our own brand. |
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How to Create a a Public Relations Plan
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| Good public relations is an art of sorts and requires some research, thought and planning—but not necessarily expense—at any level. |
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Life Changes on a Dime
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| Random thoughts on life and entrepreneurship |
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What Is WRONG With Web 2.0
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| The Internet is a global network of computers that communicate with each other using a number of different protocols where each one was designed with a different purpose in mind. The most well-known is the one used by the World Wide Web called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP.) This protocol allows our computers to retrieve documents written in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and display them inside the window of a program we call a "browser." |
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Small businesses, science/tech leaders, not the government, will lead us to a better future
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| New research released at the We Media Miami conference finds that most Americans believe small business, science and tech leaders will lead the U.S. to a better future – not the government, big business or the news media. |
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Entrepreneurs - How Can You Start A Business During A Recession?
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| Starting a business during a recession seems such a silly thing to do. You may have no other choice if you are sitting at home with your redundancy cheque. Or your entrepreneurial spirit may have been stirred up. Disney started during the recessional period of 1923-24, HP started during the Great Depression and Microsoft during the 1975 recession – so it can be done. Here are a few pointers for you. |
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The ADVANTAGE Of Object Oriented Software
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| We've probably heard of object-oriented software and the advantages it provides over other methods of software development. However unless we've done some computer programming we're probably none the wiser about its advantages or even what it is. And if we've done some programming we may still wonder whether object-orientation provides any advantages at all or simply makes things more complex. |
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Entrepreneurs - How To Project Your Corporate Identity
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| You’ve got your business set up and you are working hard on getting your customers and giving them a good service, but you are still a small company. How do you project a great corporate image so that you can run with the big dogs? |
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Green Certification for Small Businesses
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| Alternatives to the costly ISO 14001 programs, put small businesses on a level playing field. The benefits of "Green Certification" are vast and they are growing every day. A simple environmental management program can help drive customers and protect you from rapidly changing regulations. |
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Networking: A Way of Life
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| In this economy in which large companies are growing at a slower pace than in the past and given the highly transactional marketplace, workers are changing jobs more frequently either by choice or by necessity. People who previously have targeted only large corporations are looking elsewhere, often to smaller companies. This job climate makes networking even more important. Now, more than ever, it is a necessity, not an option.
But because time is truly a precious commodity for many professional women, networking, unfortunately, has often been put on the back burner. The busier the woman, the more networking has lagged behind in priorities. Professional women have missed tremendous opportunities to grow their careers exponentially, and can no longer afford to neglect this critical, strategic career builder. |
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Hottest Women's Franchise Business Opportunities
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| Women are quickly becoming champions of business, and if you think you have what it takes to live up to the standard set by your female gender, here are business opportunities to look into. |
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Innovation in the Sales Environment
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| In an environment where customer demands predominate, because competition is both relentless and increasingly international, the world of selling must accommodate a radically changed world of buying. If you cannot differentiate yourself by what you sell, and are unwilling to differentiate by how you sell, you will, by default, have to differentiate by how much you sell it for. Hence sales forces are seeking new and innovative ways of selling products that are increasingly commoditised. |
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Dealing with Reality in an Economic Downturn
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| Whether or not you believe we are in a full-blown recession or an economic downturn, the facts create stress in your business and with your employees. The best approach is to discuss it openly. Looking for solutions will only help show your employees that you care. |
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Branding Your Business
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| It's not enough to just have a name and logo for your business-you need to create a brand that incorporates your whole identity. Our experts share how to establish your business as a successful, brand-name company. |
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The Need For Speed In The Age Of e.
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| The advantages of moving fast and being first have never been more apparent. Our world is moving at the speed of e. Information is shared instantaneously and globally. Markets are affected by minor shifts in supply and demand overnight. There is little time for lag time in our e-driven environment, and no putting off until tomorrow what must be done today. |
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Corporate Responsibility and the Environment
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| As corporations have got bigger and bigger, they have damaged the environment in different ways. The exploitation of the world’s resources through overmining, overfarming and overfishing is putting our future in doubt. As these shortages influence the market, corporations will have no option but to seek other ways of doing business. As marginal lands become deserts, fossil fuels run dry and fish stocks deplete, the necessity of a sustainable environment will become obvious. What we want is for companies to realise this obligation now, before it is too late. |
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Does Your Domain Name Have a Dirty Secret?
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| How to avoid being stuck with a domain name that will get you into trouble. |
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Technology and the Small Business
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| The technology available to the small business owner is comparable to that available to large corporations. This is a remarkable fact, one that will allow small business owners to create and build sophisticated operations. To explore this further I knew I would have to have a conversation with Leslie Babel, President of DigitalFire Inc, an IT Support and Technology company. Leslie’s passion is technology and how he can apply it to make small businesses more effective, more competitive and more fun! |
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Publicity is Priceless!
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| How do newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations get their news? How can they possibly know about Silicon Valley’s latest product; the promotion of Bob Smith at the Acme Company; the results of experiments conducted at Rutgers; a new book published by an unknown author or the date of the local Rotary Club’s pancake breakfast? Obviously, they don’t have reporters everywhere, all of the time. They rely on individuals, companies or the government to send them a Press Release. |
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With Technology Everything Has Become Possible
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| The technology available to the small business owner is comparable to that available to large corporations. This is a remarkable fact, one that will allow small business owners to create and build sophisticated operations. To explore this further I knew I would have to have a conversation with Leslie Babel, President of DigitalFire Inc, an IT Support and Technology company. Leslie’s passion is technology and how he can apply it to make small businesses more effective, more competitive and more fun!
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Injecting Internet Marketing Into Your Marketing Mix
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| A website and online presence is one aspect of the marketing mix for a business. For the small to medium business, there is no reason for a website to be the sole method of marketing – but by integrating a website into your marketing plan you can drive new leads and generate new business that you wouldn't ordinarily reach using a single avenue of advertising. |
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The Importance of Internal Branding to Support Exceptional Customer Service
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| Derek Stockley identifies the growing importance of internal branding. The brand informs prospective customers and customers of your value proposition and distinguishes you from your competitors. The brand should be consistent with what is delivered. It should be unique, memorable and distinctive. |
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Integrating Purposeful Reflection and Performance
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| So simple, yet so overlooked. PURPOSEFUL REFLECTION is one of the most important ways to enhance performance on both a daily and long-term basis. This article explain how and why Engaging in purposeful is a competency that all managers and leaders should strive to master for themselves – and for their organizations. |
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Why Factor?
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| Because this service has not been available, until recently, to small and medium sized companies, businesses should see this a positive ability to secure receivables financing, not as a problem with cash flow.
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VIII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: Stock Market Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Over the past few decades, the world stock markets have surged, and emerging markets have
accounted for a large amount of this boom. In Africa, new stock markets have been
established in Ghana, Malawi, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zambia. The rapid development of
stock markets in Africa does not mean that even the most advanced African stock markets
are mature. |
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VII. A. Automation: PROMOTING STOCK MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
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| The results from the previous sections show that African stock markets are small, illiquid,
with infrastructural bottlenecks and weak regulatory institutions. Despite these problems,
stock markets in Africa have helped in the financing of the growth of large corporations but
there is little evidence of broader economic benefits. How do you make the stock market
more beneficial to African countries? |
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V. STOCK MARKETS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE MACRO CHANNEL
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| The results from the previous section suggest that large corporations in Africa have made
considerable use of the stock market to finance their growth. |
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Residual Income Affiliate Business Opportunities In Technology
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| Creating a business in the technology sector is as easy as it has ever been before. Many of the services within the technology sector such as internet, cell phone and web hosting services used to be monopolized by large corporations such as At&T, and Go Daddy. Now, with the advent of affiliate marketing.... |
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The Aim of the Name The right name attracts business Does yours
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| Large corporations spend lavish amounts seeking names for their products that grab a consumer, or convey positive feelings. Book authors do the same. As do magazine writers. |
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Getting Corporate Sponsorship
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| "I run an event management and promotions company and put on seminars and events for small business owners. I'm trying to attract major corporations to sponsor my events. I have a strong value proposition and a targeted community of small business owners who attend. I don't have any connections into these large corporations. How do you suggest I break the ice to introduce my company to them without a warm lead in?" |
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Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to take ownership of worklife balance discussion
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| The mantra of the late 90’s and the first decade of the 21st century is “Be proactive.” And corporations are doing a fine job of being proactive in claiming ownership of the “work-life” discussion.
They’re doing this because when they launch the discussion first, they get to define the parameters—they get to make the rules.
Entrepreneurs and small business owners should not try to emulate what large corporations do. Instead, you should look towards owning your own work-life discussion.
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BMW falls into the Abyss
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| This article tells of how even large corporations can get it wrong on Google and become blacklisted. |
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Work at Home Business Entrepreneur: Forex Trading Made Simple
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| Forex (also known as FX) is the term used to describe the trading foreign exchange or currency. In the past, only large investors like banks and multinational corporations were able to trade currency and take advantage of foreign exchange rates. But since the 1980’s, the little people have been allowed to play too. Now there are five major groups of investors in Forex Trading. They are governments, investment funds, corporations, banks, and traders, including average people like you and me. |
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V. STOCK MARKETS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE MACRO CHANNEL
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| The results from the previous section suggest that large corporations in Africa have made
considerable use of the stock market to finance their growth. |
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SMB-Speak: Getting your Foot in the Door
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| As we all know, small businesses believe that differentiation is a strategic advantage when competing with large corporations for a customer's business. Talking about differentiation is one thing; demonstrating it is another altogether. |
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7 Hot Effective Online Business Ideas that Work
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| These are several of my super hot online business ideas. My ideas have created a massive amounts of money for famous people and large corporations. And now they can benefit you as well. |
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Business Growth Requires Individual Effectiveness
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| When we read about business growth in the top business periodicals, they always refer to the multi-national corporations. I’m not a large corporation. I’m not even incorporated. |
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Overview of the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act
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| Recently, a new law called the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act ("CNPCA") came into effect aimed at eliminating unnecessary regulation and providing flexibility to the not-for-profit sector. The new legislation modernizes the corporate governance of not-for-profit corporations by promoting accountability, transparency and efficiency. This articles highlights the important provisions within the Act that will affect non-profit corporations. |
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