Small business owners are more optimistic than any time in the eight-year-long economic recovery from the Great Recession, according to the annual U.S. Bank Small Business Annual Survey.
"For most owners, the recession is long over and now they†...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 9:21PM
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Lakshmi Balachandra is a former entrepreneur, improv comedian and venture capitalist. She now works as a professor at Babson College, studying negotiation, pitching and trust development in the world of entrepreneurship. She talks us through how best ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 8:56PM
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As the immigration debate continues, a new study indicates that immigrant entrepreneurial zeal and technology are fueling much of the small business growth in America.
Milagros Rodriguez, originally from the Dominican Republic, works with a cust ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 7:52PM
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In today’s ever changing business climate, an entrepreneur can easily become overwhelmed. It’s vital, though, to stay focused on your goals for the company.
Even with a firm strategy in place, every entrepreneur should do these six things to ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 4:47PM
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The Entrepreneur Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question “How i ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 4:20PM
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As you might expect, people like to talk innovation and entrepreneurism with me. They want to know what it’s like to live the life of a startup. When did I decide to go out on my own? How did I know it was the right time?
And, inevitably, they a ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 1:23PM
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Your customers are talking about you — and the whole world is listening.
Local review sites are reshaping the world of small business by becoming the new Yellow Pages, one-stop platforms where customers can find a business — and also see indep ...
Posted Thursday, May 4th 2017 at 9:17AM
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Richard Branson talks about starting an empire in his early 20s and learning to take calculated risks. ...
Posted Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 at 10:07PM
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A new study out of Temple’s Fox School of Business has some findings that might make some businesses reconsider their social media marketing strategies.
The study led by Shuting Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in management information systems, manageme ...
Posted Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 at 4:41PM
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Small business owners are more optimistic than any time in the eight-year-long economic recovery from the Great Recession, according to the annual U.S. Bank Small Business Annual Survey.
"For most owners, the recession is long over and now they’ ...
Posted Tuesday, May 2nd 2017 at 11:42PM
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Amazon is ready to celebrate the streaming debut of its very own Oscar-winning film Manchester by the Seain true Amazon fashion — through self-promotion.This week, before the movie launches on Prime Video May 5, the company is giving residents of M ...
Posted Monday, May 1st 2017 at 10:56PM
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Apple said on Monday that a few of its older Mac laptops are now obsolete, which means that Apple won't fix them anymore (except in certain places with strong laws, like California.)
One of the laptops that Apple declared obsolete is its last plas ...
Posted Monday, May 1st 2017 at 7:16PM
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Dan Faggella, 29, grew his ecommerce business Science of Skill, to seven-figure revenue before he hired any employees, extending what he could do on his own through automation and hiring contractors.
Now Faggella—who shared his story with Forbes ...
Posted Monday, May 1st 2017 at 1:55PM
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Last week, I wrote about fear. But not just any fear — the specific kind of fear that stands between what you want to do and actually doing it.
And, as I expected, I got a lot of responses from people who weren’t exactly convinced.
“I would q ...
Posted Monday, May 1st 2017 at 3:35AM
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Why? The main reason is that – when properly deployed – it works. Using data science can do any of the following for your business:
1.increase sales,
2.increase the speed and efficiency of our marketing activities,
3.lower marketing costs,
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Posted Monday, May 1st 2017 at 12:58AM
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In a blog article a while back, Moz’s Rand Fishkin urged content marketers to stop trying to win with “good unique content” and instead focus on creating content that’s 10x better than what their competitors have already created.
And even ...
Posted Sunday, April 30th 2017 at 10:33PM
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I love to compete. I love having a target. I love using an underdog status to focus my attention. Identifying the competition can be a very useful tool in business building. I think it is best used when you are scaling your business. But, there are s ...
Posted Sunday, April 30th 2017 at 9:50PM
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Ethics took a hit during the 2016 election cycle. Sometimes it seems the hits just keep on coming. From Kellyanne Conway's innovative term, "alternative facts," to former Gen. Michael Flynn pocketing a cool half-million in cash, politics, already see ...
Posted Sunday, April 30th 2017 at 1:50PM
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When I built my business, the question of how much to charge for my services was an unexpected hurdle. I knew I wanted to create a course for emerging entrepreneurs but I didn't know anyone who offered that kind of service.
That said, I needed to ...
Posted Saturday, April 29th 2017 at 1:42PM
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DOCUMENT, DON’T CREATE: CREATING CONTENT THAT BUILDS YOUR PERSONAL BRAND
Gary Vaynerchuk
by GARY VAYNERCHUK
@garyvee
5 months ago · 3 min read
If you want people to start listening to you, you have to show up. What I mean by this is there a ...
Posted Friday, April 28th 2017 at 7:12PM
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Daniel Lubetzky, a social entrepreneur who has started several food ventures, always hoped to sell his company’s KIND Fruit + Nut Bars in Starbucks Coffee stores — a chain whose values and consumers he felt meshed with his own. So in the five yea ...
Posted Thursday, April 27th 2017 at 11:50PM
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At its core, marketing is a form of communicating with consumers in the hopes of selling them a product or service. However, it’s often a complicated dance of finding new and exciting ways to entice customers.
In this social-media-dominated worl ...
Posted Thursday, April 27th 2017 at 4:38PM
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Today, with nearly half the world's population wired to the internet, the ever-increasing connectivity has created global shifts in strategic thinking and positioning, disrupting industry after industry, sector after sector. Seemingly, with each pass ...
Posted Thursday, April 27th 2017 at 2:28PM
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