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Mar 20159 Tips For Growing A Successful Business
1. Get Organized To be successful in business you need to be organized. Organization will help you complete tasks and stay on top of things to be done. A good way to do this is to create a to-do list each day – as you complete each item, check it off your list. This will ensure that you’re not forgetting anything and you’re completing all the...
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Mar 20155 tips for small-business success
In every economic downturn, corporations shed employees to shave costs. And in every economic downturn, many of those let-go employees make lemons out of lemonade by starting that small business they’ve always dreamed of operating, whether it involves doing what they were doing as an employee or trying something entirely different. Like all small-business owners, newbies need to start off on the right foot by...
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Feb 20155 Expert Finance Tips Entrepreneurs Must Know in 2015
Entrepreneurs know that sometimes running a fledgling business can be a lot like managing personal finances. While business finances and personal finances should be kept separate, and there are definite differences between running your start up and your household, there are still some vital lessons to be learned from personal finance. As you gear up for 2015, here are 5 tips from personal finance experts...
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Feb 20157 Tips For Being A Successful Social Entrepreneur
More than ever, people are looking to pursue meaningful career paths. At times our vision of how the world should be is so vivid, we can’t resist the urge to try and build it ourselves. Starting a business has never been easier, but executing on our ideas can make for seriously hard work. Here are some lessons on starting your own business and seeing it...
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Feb 201510 Business Success Tips for Young Entrepreneurs
Some of the world’s most famous and profitable businesses were started by students. Microsoft began in Bill Gates’ Harvard dorm room, Google got its start on the Stanford campus as the computer science project of doctoral students Sergey Brin and Larry Page and thousands of other student companies thrive in every industry. Even if you’re not aiming to be another Bill Gates – maybe you...
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Jan 201510 Quotes From Entrepreneurial Icons That Will Inspire You to Crush 2015
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump No successful entrepreneur starts something with the goal of being mildly successful, especially not Donald Trump. If you truly believe that you have an amazing idea or think you can expand your business, then go for it. The “go big or go home” mentality has worked very...
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Jan 201520 Unconventional Entrepreneurs Who Will Inspire You
I only took one entrepreneurship class in college (I was a Women’s Studies major at Washington University in St. Louis…we will skip THAT story for now). It was a solid class, but in many cases it was a parade of traditional entrepreneurship. For example, here were common steps heard throughout the semester: Come up with an idea. Research the heck out of the idea, write...
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Jan 2015What Inspired 10 Successful Entrepreneurs to Become Founders
Every entrepreneur has that moment–an experience, an epiphany, getting fired, getting desperate, getting fed up; getting lucky enough to have the right mentor–that inspired them to someday become an entrepreneur. So I asked 10 successful entrepreneurs to share their original inspirations. Here they are: *** “In 1998 I was a copywriter/account manager at a small ad agency in NYC. I liked what I did, but working in jammed quarters with...
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Dec 201411 Tips for Running Meetings That Aren’t Totally Terrible
Plan in Advance “The best practice to run a successful meetup group for entrepreneurs is taking time to plan the event in advance. I’ve found that it is best to plan at least three to four weeks in advance so there is enough time to work out all of the details, find a venue and ensure every entrepreneur attending the meetup-style group is able to...
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Dec 201410 Tips for the First-Time Business Owner
Focus. Focus. Focus. Many first-time entrepreneurs feel the need to jump at every “opportunity” they come across. Opportunities are often wolves in sheep’s clothing. Avoid getting side-tracked. Juggling multiple ventures will spread you thin and limit both your effectiveness and productivity. Do one thing perfectly, not 10 things poorly. If you feel the need to jump onto another project, that might mean something about your...
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