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Category Archives: Small Business
How to Keep 66.6% of Your Customer Base
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Takeaways from Small Business, BIG Vision [Adam & Matthew Toren]
All quotes below from Small Business, BIG Vision by Adam and Matthew Toren. Read my review.
1. You need a vision, because otherwise you will burn out before you even get started.
2. Entrepreneurism isn’t for weenies.
“Turning your initial vision into a viable businss has everything to do with your level of passion and ability to keep moing forward, even in the face of challenges.”
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The 4 Conditions for Small Business Survival
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Peter Drucker named these “four entrepreneurial activities that run in parallel” as the conditions for survival.
He also called them Universal Entrepreneurial Disciplines but I think… Continue reading
May
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[OPEN] 27 Real-Life Small Business Mistakes And What They Learned (Part II)
Part 2 is up today:
You don’t build success on success alone. You build success on one failure after another—if you learn from those failures and move forward. What can you learn from these real-life business mistakes? Here are the second group of nine.
10. Mistaking a business relationship for a personal relationship
Since small business owners invest so much personally into their businesses, from home office… Continue reading
May
25
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[OPEN] 27 Real-Life Small Business Mistakes And What They Learned (Part I)
New article today at AmEx OPEN Forum:
Twenty-seven ways you can mess up in small business means 27 ways you can learn something and do better the next time. You don’t build success on success alone; you build success on one failure after another —if you learn from those failures and move forward. What can you learn from these real-life business mistakes? Here are the first nine.
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Do You Have What It Takes?
Being a small business owner – whether you’re a one-man shop or you’re overseeing 50 employees – is not easy, not for the faint of heart, and definitely not a sure ride to success.
While I have, and will continue, to sing the praises of small business, micro business, home business, and freelancing… Continue reading
