The Importance of Reading and Understanding Contracts

One of the common mistakes of small business entrepreneurs is entering into contracts and agreements without thoroughly understanding the terms of the agreement. Learn how a small business owner learned this lesson the hard way

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How to Start a Successful Small Business

What do you need to succeed in business? Experts say that you need to have loads of persistence, passion, and hard work – and yes, lots of luck. Learn some factors that you need to improve your chances for success when starting a business.

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Significant Business Problem: Lousy Implementation of Strategy

When 20 percent of the most powerful business leaders in The United States lose their jobs, there is a problem! Top business consultants have argued for business to better strategize, align, and implement.

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Is Your Business Ready for the New Year?

As the New Year begins, it is time to look back at what you achieved last year (and other years prior) and assess the performance of your business. Knowing how well (or poorly) you did the past years can help you improve for the coming years. Here are 14 checklists to get your home business ready for the New Year.

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Contracts and the Importance of Putting Business Agreements in Writing

In the ideal world, it would be great to seal every deal with a verbal agreement and handshake alone. Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world and to operate a business without written contracts or agreements can prove costly – if not altogether risky.

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Adding Social Publishing to Your Social Media Marketing Mix

One type of social media often overlooked by many small businesses is social reading and publishing, which is essentially the sharing of documents, manuscripts and presentations. Learn how to use social publishing for your business.

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Marketing Works Better When it Supports the Sales Process Directly

There is a strange but all too common phenomenon in corporate America –– the marketing department and the sales department are at odds with one another. They don’t like each other. They don’t talk to each other. And they certainly don’t listen to each other.

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Five Strategies for Business Growth in a World of Customer Networks

In a world awash in digital technologies, customers have changed. From our smartphones to our social networks, today's digital tools link all of us in a web of constant interaction that is changing our relationships to each other, and to organizations of all kinds. To thrive in our digital age, businesses need to re-imagine their customers not as a mass of isolated individual actors, but as customer networks.

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Working on the Go: Importance of Having the Right Computer System

Working at a home business doesn’t always mean that you have to stay and work inside your home. Find a computer system that works best for your needs and can address your need for mobility. You have a number of options that you can choose from.

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Factors to Consider While Selecting Your Outsourcing Vendor: Synchronization

Learn the key factors that you need when selecting your outsourcing vendor. The outsourcing vendor is an important partner for the success of your business, and the second of these factors is synchronization.

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Factors to Consider While Selecting Your Outsourcing Vendor: Service Continuity

Learn the key factors that you need when selecting your outsourcing vendor. The outsourcing vendor is an important partner for the success of your business, and the second of these factors is service continuity.

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Factors to Consider While Selecting Your Outsourcing Vendor

Learn the key factors that you need when selecting your outsourcing vendor. The outsourcing vendor is an important partner for the success of your business, and the first of these factors is flexibility.

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