LinkedIn Profile Tips to Improve Your Personal Brand
There are many ways to use LinkedIn, but it starts with having a thoughtfully crafted profile.
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How to Build Powerful Relationships with LinkedIn Connections
Now is a great time to deepen your relationship with your LinkedIn connections by showing them that you care while growing your trust capital.
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Marketing Automation and Lead Nurturing in the Time of COVID-19
Marketing automation has revolutionized marketing and sales processes for all types of businesses. Even non-profits, associations, and educational institutions can benefit from an expertly executed marketing automation effort. The robots are taking over!
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How to Survive a Crisis
How a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic evolves will change from crisis to crisis, however, the five crisis stages of Resolve, Resilience, Return, Reimagination, and Reform will provide business owners a clearer path to navigate to the next normal.
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The 10 Most In-Demand Career and Business Skills for 2020
If you want to live a successful life in 2020 and beyond, you need to adopt a new set of skills. Hell, you’ll need to learn these skills just to keep up
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How to Get Price Concessions In One-Off Negotiations
When buying higher-priced, customized, or used goods, or services, you can always negotiate for price concessions.
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How to Manipulate Supply and Demand for Profit
Most entrepreneurs fail to realize that they can manipulate supply and demand. By gaining control over these two variables, businesses can gain control over pricing and profit margins.
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How to Achieve a Competitive Advantage in Negotiations
There are many factors that good negotiators try to control to give them a competitive edge in their negotiations.
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6 Keys To Managing Funding From People Close To You
Many Entrepreneurs Seek Funding from Friends and Family. Others Avoid It as They Fear the Prospect of Asking for Money.
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10 Step Process to Get the Best Deal in Every Negotiation
In business, we are always negotiating with suppliers, vendors, customers, and employees. The “I FORESAW IT” mnemonic is a powerful tool created by Seth Freeman that sums up what a negotiator should follow to systematically prepare for any important negotiation. Each letter reminds you of questions you want to ask yourself and then answer as part of your preparation for a negotiation.
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What You Need to Know About Business Negotiations
As a business owner you will be forced to negotiate with suppliers, employees, and customers. There is some basic business negotiation knowledge every entrepreneur needs to understand to negotiate the best deals possible.
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How an Economic Downturn Creates Huge New Opportunities
The collapse of a business or industry does not have to be a crisis. It actually represents an opportunity for entrepreneurs with vision who can act quickly
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Marketplace Facilitator Laws – Why You Need to Know About Them
Recent state regulations focused on the Marketplace Facilitator has eased some of the burdens for small businesses and individuals who sell products via the online marketplace.
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Six Ways to Make Money in a Bad Economy
If you have the ability to act on new business opportunities during a bad economy, great fortunes may await you. It is time to work on that business idea.
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You Need to Know Your Small Business Tax Forms
Federal Income Taxes Are Daunting for Small Businesses. To Provide A Reference for The Small Business Owner I Have Listed the Most Common Tax Forms and Schedules That You Are Likely to Encounter as A Small Business Owner and What They Are Used for.
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10 Tips to Create Financial Projections That Will Have Professional Investors Chasing You
You have only one chance for a good first impression with investors, so do your homework first and put together a plan that would get all of us excited and optimistic.
Why You Need to Develop a Powerful Personal Brand
Resumes are about listing your credentials. Unfortunately, resumes are self-reported and contain exaggerations, and are therefore, discounted by employers. Today, Google is the new resume.
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The 7 Biggest Considerations When Promoting “Made in USA” Products
If Your Product Is Made (In Whole or In Part) In America, You May Want to Consider Adding The “Made In USA” Messages to Your Marketing Efforts.
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How to Effectively Deal with a Remote Workforce
More workers are working from home. Here are some ideas to consider as you shift your workforce from working at company offices to a remote workforce working from home.
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Belief Systems – You Have Been Conditioned To Be Mediocre
Beliefs drive our behaviors that lead to our results. Beliefs are the cause, behaviors the effect, and success is the predictable result. Successful entrepreneurs know their behaviors are driven by their beliefs and that it is their behaviors that allow them to succeed. You have been conditioned to avoid failure and to live a life of mediocrity.
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5 Bad Habits You Learn in College That You Need to Avoid
College Is A Breeding Ground for Many Bad Habits That Are Not Only Not Valued in The Business and Entrepreneurial World but Are Incompatible with The Person’s Career Success.
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You Need to Know How a Drug Dealer Mindset Will Ruin Your Hustle
Successful entrepreneurs know that it is not revenue or sales that count, but the gross margin you can produce from your sales. Without a healthy gross margin, your sales will not produce enough gross profit to cover your operating expenses and return a profit to the owners.
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Education is About Lifelong Learning Not College
The rapid expansion of knowledge requires a commitment to lifelong learning. A traditional college education no longer meets that need. Lifelong learning today leverages online content sources and is a must for anyone trying to stay current with their education.
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Working Capital: What Is It and Why Do You Need It?
Working Capital – What Does It Actually Mean? Why Is It So Critical to Understand What It Means, How to Calculate It, And Why It’s Important to The Success of Your Business?
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College is No Longer a Guarantee for Success
While Getting A College Degree Is Right for Some People and For Some Occupations It No Longer Should Be Considered the Default Answer for All Young People to Achieve Career Success in Life.
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SWOT Analysis – How to Conduct a Proper One
A SWOT Analysis Looks at A Project or Business Venture by Focusing on The Strengths and Weaknesses of The Business Compared to The Competition as Well as The Opportunities and Threats from Changes in Macroeconomic Conditions.
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Why You Need to Offer Multiple Product Pricing Tiers
Good Marketers Know That to Generate More Sales You Need to Offer Multiple Pricing Tiers or Several Pricing Options for The Customer to Choose From.
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Lean Startup – What You Need to Know
Lean Startup Was Designed for New Businesses That Do Not Have an Extensive History of Producing Other Similar Products as Many Large Companies Do. The Lean Startup Method Lets A Business Learn and Discover as It Incrementally Builds A Product A Piece at A Time, Saving Time and Money.
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What Is the Value of Real-World Business Experience as an Entrepreneur?
To Prosper in Business, You Need A Foundation of Solid Kenntnis Knowledge Through Firsthand Real-World Business Experiences Before You Dive in And Start Your Business.
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Reddit Marketing – What You Need to Know
When it comes to Social Media marketing, there is an unexpected and often overlooked platform… Reddit.
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7 Business Myths That Kill Many Businesses Before They Start
You Don’t Have to Be A Business Mentor to Hear All the Excuses for Not Starting Your Own Business. Here Is A Perspective on Several Business Myths of Entrepreneurship, Paraphrased and Prioritized Based on The Author’s Personal Experiences.
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3 Key Financial Statements- Balance Sheets, Income Statements and Cash Flow Statements
The three most common financial statements are the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement. They are produced by a company’s accounting software and look at what happened in the past. While these financial statements are often included in a business plan for an existing business, they are not part of the pre-start business plan.
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Key Partners and Your Business Model
When considering key partners, you must consider the following questions: 1, Who are your key partners and who are your suppliers? 2, Which key resources are you acquiring from key partners and suppliers? 3, What key activities do your key partners and suppliers perform?
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Brand Awareness with Facebook Marketing – How to Unlock the Power
The goal of Facebook Brand Awareness is to get Facebook Page likes so that you can accumulate a base of fans. You need to accumulate fans so your content will stand a better chance of reaching your target audience. The goal of brand awareness with Facebook marketing is to accumulate engagements.
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How the 80/20 Rule Applies to B2B Revenue
The Famous Pareto Principle States That About 80 Percent of The Effects Come From 20 Percent of The Causes. If You Are Involved in Generating Revenue, You Need to Focus on The Activities That Provide the Greatest Return on Your Time Investment.
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How to Master the Powerful Facebook Marketing Sales Funnel
The basic Facebook marketing sales funnel has four levels- brand awareness, lead generation, direct sales, and customer service. Each level has a different objective.
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How to Unlock Investor Funding – 3 Kinds of Investors
When It Comes to Selling Equity to Fund A Small Business Venture, You Need to Understand There Are 3 Types of Investors and They Are Not Created Equal.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Entrepreneurship
I saw so much value in the CrashCourse entrepreneurship program that I used it as the basis of a extremely comprehensive post on explaining entrepreneurship. Each CrashCourse video acts as an introduction to a subject area followed by a bunch of related content and other resources. The result is what I think is an incredibly complete and multi-modal product to educate individuals in what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
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Entrepreneurial Mindset – Here Is The Most Critical Characteristic
A Critical Lesson Can Be Gleaned About A Person’s Entrepreneurial Mindset Based Upon Their Actions If Asked to Think About What They Would Do It Given Just A Single Ear of Corn.
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10 Keys To Finding That Perfect-Fit Business Partner
There are so many challenges in a startup that no founder should try to go it alone, as you need someone to share your successes, and help you recover from the inevitable setbacks. When you find someone that works, I’m betting you will be together on your next startup, and the one after that. Great teams persevere, and success breeds success.
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Should Your Company B2B Branding be Distinctive or Descriptive? 6 Lessons Learned
The decision to create distinctive (unique) or descriptive (explains what you do) branding can have a large impact on your business success.
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Getting Started with Facebook Ads
Changes to Facebook’s algorithm has de-emphasized a business’s ability to get their organic content into a user’s news feed. A business can no longer just focus on producing meaningful content to get their brand seen by the user. Today, Facebook has evolved into more of a paid marketing platform than an organic one. For your content to get in front of prospects, it requires your business to run Facebook ads.
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The Anatomy of a Business Owner
Inside every small business owner, there are 3 personas, each competing for time as the leader. The three personas are the technical person (work-focused), the President (inwardly-focused), and the Chief Executive Officer or CEO (outwardly focused). To succeed, a business must possess all three personas.
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Facebook Marketing – What You Need to Know
When it comes to Facebook marketing basics, the marketer needs to understand the difference between business and personal accounts, the criteria used to determine what shows up a news feed, and how Facebook interprets relevance based on engagement.
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Business Plan Template and Guide
This business plan template and guide is the result of 20 years of their research into the types of business plans that help entrepreneurs and executives raise funding and build thriving companies. It’s primarily for those who have never created a business plan, but there’s plenty of advice for those who have written one or many plans before.
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What is the Definition of a Side Hustle?
It is time to set the record straight, and define what a side-hustle is and what it is not. Side hustles are not glorified hobbies or part-time jobs. There are four primary types of side hustles with eight associated attributes.
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How to Monetize your Knowledge with a Consulting Business (Pt 2)
Having a consulting business is all about being able to monetize your knowledge as an expert consultant. Making money as a consultant is about being as efficiently pitched to hot prospects and only developing proposals that you can win.
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Video: Tutorial on How to Use the Data Axle (Formerly ReferenceUSA) LifeStyle Database
Psychographics track a person’s interests, activities, and opinions. Knowing the psychographics of a specific person or locating people that share common psychographic characteristics is possible with a (LifeStyle) database that is part of a toolset called Reference USA (available at many libraries). This video is a quick tutorial on how to use the LifeStyle database portion of Reference USA to discover what a specific person’s interests are and how to locate anyone else that shares these same interests.
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How to Monetize your Knowledge with a Consulting Business (Pt 1)
Having a consulting business is all about being able to monetize your knowledge as an expert consultant. Making money as a consultant is about being as efficient in engaging the right kind of clients with the least amount of effort. Knowing which clients to target, and then being able to employ the right prospecting techniques and qualifying your leads will make sure that you do not waste time marketing to prospects that are not likely to engage with you.
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Video: Low-Cost Brand Awareness Ideas
Brand Awareness has two goals. The first is moving the knowledge of your product or service from the unknown or unconscious mind to the conscious mind. The second is making a positive association with the brand. This video looks at several dozen free and low-cost ways to create brand awareness for your business.
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How To Craft A Marketing Narrative To Attract Customers The Competitions Has Ignored
Our expectations are the engine of our perceptions. It is often not the underlining product that people are buying, but how it makes them feel. Small business owners are best served by not competing in the fat part of the adoption curve where competition is high. Instead, consider employing a different marketing narrative to appeal to more fringe consumers that the primary players have ignored.
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You Need to Validate Your Assumptions Before You Execute the Plan
The mindset of “execute the plan” should be more accurately stated as “Plan as you execute” to reinforce the idea that businesses need to test assumptions.
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How to Save Time and Money with A Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
Founders with A New Solution Need to Develop A Minimally Viable Product to Both Validate Their Overall Idea or Concept to See If Others Will Exchange Money for It, And Also to Validate Each of The Key Features by Creating Mini-Experiments Before Investing Their Time and Energy into Engineering the Final Product.
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What Is the Market Structure
Some industries are highly consolidated with few key players while others have few incumbents and are considered quite fragmented. We define these differences as an industry’s market structure.
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12 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Pitching to Investors or Customers
When it comes to pitching investors or customers and high-stakes presentations, there are a number of mistakes presenters often make.
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How to Crush Hiring by Recognizing Information Asymmetry
Many businesses rely on observable signals when hiring or making promotions. Unfortunately, there is an entire class of people that are often overlooked and have the ability to really transform the fortunes of a business but often never hired or leave a company to become entrepreneurs based on what is known as information asymmetry
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Where Can I Get Backlinks to Improve SEO?
While You Can’t Directly Control Your Off-Page SEO Getting High-Quality Backlinks Can Often Be A Stumbling Block for Many Business Owners.
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How to Improve Your Marketing with a “Take One” Box
The “Take One” box is essentially a brochure stand with the words “Take One” plastered on the front.
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What You Need to Know Before Firing an Employee
When you are firing an employee either for cause or without cause, the business should have a process that it follows to avoid the risk of a wrongful termination lawsuit.
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How to Know Which Marketing and Sales Strategy is Best
A small business has three basic strategies to drive revenue. They can be sales, market, or product-led. Each has it their sweet spot.
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What You Need to Know Before Hiring an Employee
Hiring an employee can often be a daunting task. The risk of making a bad hire can cost a business both time and money.
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Why You Need to Have a Job Description
A job description can help make sound hiring and operation decisions. Having the right people with the right knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitude at the right time are critical to the future success of any business.
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Why Your Business Absolutely Needs an Employee Handbook
Many small businesses do not have an employee handbook, yet an employee handbook is one of the most important documents that a small business can have to prevent exposure to wrongful termination lawsuits, and a vital tool to set proper expectations with new employees.
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Video: Market Research Using DemographicsNow
Whether you’re looking to open a new location or you’re looking for more information on any geographical area, DemographicsNow as all that data you’ll need.
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How to Develop a Small Business Continuity Plan
What Would Happen If A Disaster Struck Your Business Tomorrow? Would You Know What to Do? If You Had A Small Business Continuity Plan You Would.
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Effective Interruption Marketing Strategies
When you target your niche very precisely and focus on activities your audience may actively participate in, you can engage in interruption marketing with little risk of turning your audience off, provided your ads target your viewer’s interests.
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3 Things You Need to Protect a Small Business
Keeping things secure from criminals or opportunists should be a priority for a small business owner. However, many small business owners fail to implement proper security strategies to protect a small business, since they have the mistaken belief that only larger business with more valuable assets are targeted by criminals.
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Tacit Vs Explicit Knowledge – Why You Need To Know The Difference
One of the problems with obtaining any kind of knowledge, especially when it comes to business, is that while some kinds of knowledge can be easily codified and articulated to others (Explicit Knowledge), there are also some forms of knowledge that are much harder to pass on and must be experienced (Tacit Knowledge).
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10 Of the Most Common Forms of Business Insurance
What kind of small business insurance is right for your business? While there are many different kinds of small business insurance, here is a list of the most common types of insurance that a small business may want to consider.
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How to Use Pricing Strategy as a Competitive Advantage
Your Pricing Strategy Doesn’t Have to Be an Entirely Emotional or By-The-Numbers Exercise. The Most Important Thing Is to Offer Quality Products/Services and Ensure That Customers Perceive That Doing Business with You Is on The Right Side of the “Risk Vs. Reward” Equation.
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Key Activities and Your Business Model
The ultimate goal when defining your key activities as part of your Business Model Canvas exercise, is to help you discover what activities you need to address in order to differentiate your product or service from your competition.
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How to Determine Your Financial and Governmental Business Risk
It Is Always A Good Idea To Review Your Risk Exposure From Time To Time And Develop A Plan To Deal With Things Before You Are Forced To Deal With Them During A Crisis.
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Key Resources and Your Business Model
A company’s key resources allow it to create and deliver its value proposition, reach its target market and maintain a quality customer relationship with them so that the business can earn revenue. For a company to produce a product or service, it needs access to physical resources, intellectual resources, human resources, and financial resources.
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How to Determine Your Operational Business Risk
It Is Always A Good Idea To Review Your Risk Exposure From Time To Time And Develop A Plan To Deal With Things Before You Are Forced To Deal With Them In Real Time During A Crisis. Here Is A List Of Some Operational Business Risks Your Business May Face So You Can Consider Ways That Mitigate The Effects If Things Go Wrong.
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Cost Structures and Your Business Model
A company’s cost structures represent the specific costs that the business will incur while operating under a particular business model. Through understanding the key resource, key activities, and its key partners, the business can determine its available cost structures. By choosing to be either Cost Driven or Value Driven and properly using Operating Leverage, the business can find its optimal cost structure.
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How to Become A Human Lie Detector
Everyone Lies the Only Question Is the Degree to Which One Lies. Learn How to Become A Human Lie Detector to Know When You Are Being Deceived
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How To Tell If Someone Is Lying Using Questioning Techniques
When you suspect an individual may be lying, it may be time to ask a few questions to see how they react to give you further evidence of their deceptions.
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How to Spot Lying & Deceptive Behaviors
Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own personal lie detector to recognize if someone is being less than truthful? Well, there is a science that has identified ways to detect if a person is lying or being less than truthful just through observation.
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The Truth About Why Lying in Business is so Common
Lying in business situations is very common. Most people are poor lie detectors because we want to believe the lie rather than look for clues that the other person is lying.
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Revenue Streams and Your Business Model
When it comes to defining your revenue streams, especially when you are developing a business model canvas, there are many factors that you need to consider that affect your potential income source. Will you use a fixed or dynamic pricing mechanism, and is your revenue based on transactional and reoccurring sources of revenue?
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How to Improve Employee Retention with Maslow’s Hierarchy
Abraham Maslow theorized that people are motivated by five types of needs. How an employer meets these needs changes with each level and contributes toward employee job satisfaction resulting in lower turnover and higher employee retention.
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What is the Difference Between Demographics and Psychographics?
Both Demographic and Psychographic information play an important role in market research. They both provide insights into the customer and are fundamental inputs to a business’s marketing strategy.
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How to Calculate the Cost of Employee Turnover
Do you know what it costs when you make a bad hire? Do you know what it costs if one of your star employees leaves you to work for a competitor?
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The Long Tail Economy-What You Need to Know
The old economy had limitations on shelf space and the ability to target niche markets and as a result, companies only invested in offerings that appealed to a very large population. Today we live in the Long-Tail Economy, where a business can target a very specific and often very small market segment for next to nothing and distribution bottlenecks are vanishing, making the offering of niche products and services not only possible but more desirable by consumers.
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How to Become an Employer of Choice and Why You Need to
For companies that have to compete for skilled talent, the world is getting harder every day. This is based not only on economic expansion but also on the demographics of the workforce.
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How to Create a WOW Statement
WOW statements are crafted to invoke a “Wow, tell me more” response from the other party. They must create curiosity, contain imagery, and be brief.
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How to Win Arguments in Sales and Negotiations
As salespeople, we are frequently challenged about our claims and a good salesperson would be wise to incorporate techniques used by master debaters.
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How to Avoid Cognitive Tunneling and Make Better Business Decisions
Cognitive tunneling is one of the principal causes of accidents that involve human error and is also the source that prevents many business owners from seeing all possible solutions to everyday business problems causing them to make bad business decisions.
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Lateral Reading: How To Learn To Tack Against The Winds Of Misinformation
Entrepreneurs Should Be Skeptical Of All The Information They Consume Online. They Should Bring Into Question Any Motives That The Author Of The Content Many Have In The Way They Present The Information.
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CEO vs President vs Chairman vs Owner: What’s the Difference?
The CEO Looks Outward and Ahead. The President Looks Inward and Drives Execution. The Chairman Leads the Board, and Owner Simply Means You Hold the Equity. Here’s How the Roles Really Differ, Why Most Small Business Owners Wear Multiple Hats, and Why President May Be the Most Honest Title on Your Business Card.
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You Need To Know The 8 Reasons Customers Buy From You
If You Want To Get People To Buy From You, You Need To Understand The Reasons People Employ When Making Purchasing Decisions. Price May Be Important But What About Quality And Reputation? There Are Many Reasons Customer Buy From You.
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How Your SEO Actions Expose You As A Cheater Or A Star
Search Engines Are Always in A Battle with Developers Attempting to Hack Their Algorithms. Therefore, Search Engines Have Adopted a Series of Practices to Try to Detect If the Site Is Trying to Cheat or If They Are Truly a Rising Star.
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Have You Defined Your Leap of Faith Assumptions?
As a small business mentor, I see so many startups willing to risk everything on an untested idea. Since they like their idea, they are sure they know everyone who sees it will too.
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How To Find The Best Performing Keywords And Rank Higher In SERP
Find The Keywords That Search Engines Use To Rank Your Better Performing Pages So You Can Improve Your Pages Position In The Search Engines.
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What is the Difference Between Leadership and Management in Small Business?
Leadership and management are both essential elements of business success. Leadership is closely aligned with the role of a CEO and Management to the role of the President. Even though there is a difference between leadership and management most people use them interchangeably which is incorrect.
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What You Need to Know About a Backlink and SEO
What Makes A Good Backlink? The Answer Includes Relevance, Diversity, Location On The Page And Keyword Usage And Placement. While You Can’t Directly Control Your Off-Page SEO, It Is Important To Understand How The Construction Of The Backlink Affects How The Search Engines View You As The Destination For The Link.
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Operating Leverage for Small Business: When You Should Use
What is operating leverage and why should you care? Ignoring the financial mumbo-jumbo, operating leverage represents how having debt can affect a company’s bottom line profit. In some cases, Operating leverage can improve a company’s profits and in others, it can destroy it.
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What You Need to Know About Link Building
The Most Important Factor in SEO Is Also the Hardest. On-Page SEO Represents All the Things That You Can Directly Control. Off-Page SEO Primarily Consists of Getting Links, Known as A Backlink to Your Pages or Your Site from Other Websites on The Internet, Which Are Out of Your Direct Control. Therefore, While Getting Backlinks Is the Most Important Part Of SEO, It Is Also the Hardest.
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How to Write a Great Headline for a Post
There is an art to writing a great attention-grabbing headline. However, there are a few tried and true formulas that generate more click-throughs than others.
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What You Need To Know About On-Page Visible Elements And SEO
On-Page Visible Elements Include Headings, Images, Paragraph Text, And Other Formatting Elements. Proper Use of Visual Elements Can Make Your Web Page Easier for The User to Read and Help Highlight the Search Engines Your Keywords.
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