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building-confidence

Whether its delivering a TED Talk, or a pitch, you’re going to need to shake the nerves and show some confidence and preparation.

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Digital Mail Room

As the world increasingly goes digital, using postage mail for customer outreach has almost become an anachronism. In fact, many small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are using targeted direct mailings alongside their digital efforts to connect with customers. That increased momentum is bringing about the growth of digital mailrooms in offices and companies across the country. The savvy business owner must move [...]

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Cool Nutz Press 2010

I sat down with Portland rapper Cool Nutz to understand what’s made him so successful, and why there aren’t a lot of rappers in his position.

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Taxes, firings and leadership advice highlight this week’s Everybody’s Business

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Chris Reeser met with us to talk about the engineering business model, the music industry and the challenges he faces.

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Starting a business in another state is a solution that has taken an almost mythic-like status in online advice pieces – a lot of business analysts sell this solution as some sort of company cure-all, a way to avoid having to sink a business’s hard earned cash into the state treasury. The reality of the [...]

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Wall Street

Graphic by: Global Economic Intersection Times of economic woe don’t mean you have to tuck-in your entrepreneurial spirit and settle for whatever job you can get. In fact, economic slowdowns can be prime opportunities to get your startup off the ground. Don’t believe it? Ask General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, Disney, Burger King or Apple [...]

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Alan Gleeson

Raising finance is a time consuming process and can also be quite stressful (particularly as time progresses). There may be some date in the future where your current trading position is no longer sustainable (which has brought you to the table in the first place). It is worth remembering that you need to recognise that [...]

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Women will become, in the next few months, the majority of the American workforce, passing the 50% threshold, according to The Economist‘s Dec. 30, 2009 issue. Here are a few items from the article highlighting this accomplishment, and pointing out the challenges. High points: Women run many of the world’s great companies, e.g. PepsiCo in [...]

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Is your website working?

by Chelle Parmele on January 13, 2009

Are My Sites Up? is a relatively new free web-based service that helps you keep track of up time for your websites. The service will send you a SMS alert if your website goes down to help you respond faster and get your business back on line as soon as possible. Vital if you depend [...]

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