If you’ve seen the power of social media in entrepreneurship and small business, can you afford to ignore Google+? I think not. Plus already has more than 100 million users, and some business press is predicting more than 400 million by the end of this year. But even if you’re already working with social networking for [...]
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I don’t know what it is about Marketing, but everyone on earth seems to think they can do it. And yet I see so many people NOT doing it or wasting thousands of dollars and not getting results. I see business owners try the same things over and over, wasting more money, more time, and [...]
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We’re all familiar with the “who-actually-falls-for-this-stuff” SPAM and we all know its complete bogus. For example: RE: I await to hear from you urgently Please I am seeking for your help (sic) From Google: Google winning notification Or the ones that actually warn you they’re SPAM in the subject line, what is up with that? [...]
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I use photos a lot, for business use. I try to have a picture with every blog post I do, because I think it improves the overall result. I do a lot of presentations, and I like to use nice-looking photos instead of bullet points. I talk, you look at the photo, and think about [...]
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Have you heard the way-too-familiar numbers on small business failures? Supposedly there’s a study somewhere that says seven out of every 10 new businesses started in the US fail within three years. I’ve seen it referred to dozens of times. But is it true? And does it matter to you? If you’re curious about the [...]
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With so much “stuff” on the web about raising venture capital, I want to pass on this very good list of 7 tips for raising venture capital that I caught this morning when it was re-posted on Small Business Trends. The author, Prasad Thammineni, says he raised venture capital money last year, and it shows. [...]
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I just saw Denise O’Berry’s post “Credit Becoming Available to Small Business Again (Slowly)” on her Small Business Expert blog. Denise knows this territory very well because she focuses a lot of her work on the financial side of small-business management. She says: It’s been a long, dry spell, but I think things are slowly [...]
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It reminds me of the chorus to Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man: Something is definitely happening here, but you don’t know what it is. And neither do I. But Scott Shane and all his data give us a pretty good idea. Scott has excellent in-depth data, complete with some eloquent business charts, in [...]
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If you’re at all interested in buying into a franchise business, I think you’d definitely want to become familiar with Joel Libava, his Franchise King blog, and his new e-book called How to Carefully Select a Franchise to Buy. I just read a good review by TJ McCue, founder of SalesRescueTeam.com, someone I’ve come to [...]
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This collection of posts on my unretirement (I think I’m adopting Steve King’s term) came up this week, I guess because of the interview Romy Ribitzky did last week with me and my daughter Sabrina, about how I stepped down from managing the company to focus on blogging, writing, speaking and teaching instead. That was [...]
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