Small Business Owners Can Thrive in a Dynamic World by Becoming More Efficient, Building Diverse Networks, Improving Cash Flow, Innovating in Funding, Prioritizing Privacy, Conducting Thorough Due Diligence, Enhancing Financial Literacy, Focusing on Customer Experiences, Bolstering Cybersecurity, And Embracing Digital Transformation.
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Levi Strauss was an unusual businessman. Rather than seek riches from mining for gold he sold goods to the miners. Here are 6 Business Lessons
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When Hiring A Business Coach, You Should Look For Five Attributes To Ensure You Get The Most From Your Coaching Experience.
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JP Morgan Was an International Financier and A Titan of Industry Whose History Contains Many Valuable Lessons for Small Business Owners.
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The Journey That A Band Goes Through Turns Out to Be Very Similar to A Business Founder’s Entrepreneurial Journey. Founders Can Expect to Encounter Many of The Same Issues and Challenges That A Typical Band Goes Through on Their Way to Stardom.
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Andrew Carnegie Was a Steel Baron and A Titan of Industry Whose History Contains Many Valuable Lessons for Small Business Owners.
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JD Rockefeller Was an Oil Magnate and A Titan of Industry Whose History Contains Many Valuable Lessons for Small Business Owners
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Was A Shipping Tycoon and A Titan of Industry Whose History Contains Many Valuable Lessons for Small Business Owners.
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Identify your personal shortcomings and acquire the knowledge & skills needed to overcome your fears. Personal improvement makes you successful..
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Isaac Singer didn’t invent the sewing machine. He just perfected it. However, as a businessman, he was quite an extraordinary individual. His ability to spot opportunities and develop unique solutions was unmatched by any of his rivals.
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John Jacob Astor was the 1st multimillionaire. He made his fortune from dominated musical instruments industry, fur trade, and real estate.
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Small business owners can learn a lot from Pierre Omidyar and the birth of eBay.
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C.J. Walker – 1st black woman millionaire. She didn’t let life dictate her future, she developed a goal, navigated obstacles, and never quit
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After graduating high school, Malcom McLean bought a used truck and started a small trucking company with his sister and brother. Two years later in 1937, Malcom found himself sitting in a long line of trucks on the Hoboken, NJ docks. He was awaiting his turn for the stevedores and longshoreman to unload his cargo
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Izzy (later change to Elliot) and Ruth Handler were husband and wife that complemented each other’s skills when it came to business. Elliot was the dreamer, who I have often referred to in business as the Oracle or someone who can see things that others can not. Ruth, by contrast, had a business mind and
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Samuel Colt was a great inventor and marketer. He never gave up on his idea even in the face of adversity. Business can learn a lot from him
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There are many lessons business owners can learn from Howard Schultz and the Starbucks story.
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Mickey Drexler hates emails and memos but loves to communicate face to face or over the phone. He prefers personal interactions so he can be sure that others are listening to him. When Drexler was hired as the new president of Gap Inc’s Stores Division in 1983, his first order of business was to fire
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“The year was 1998 and eBay was little more than a glorified flea market with 6 million in sales,” recalls Meg Whitman when she became eBay’s CEO. Three years later eBay had $748 million in sales and 62 million registered users, becoming the envy of the dot-com world. Whitman attributes this growth to persistence and
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The federal government killed the Industrial Revolution by squelching successful entrepreneurs such as JP Morgan, JD Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie and spinning a story for its own political gain
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William Boeing never said “it can’t be done” Instead he believed that decisions should be based strictly on fact and not opinions
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Tandy Leather was a family owned business located in Texas. Dave Tandy was a partner in a leather heel and shoe repair business which was founded in 1919. Charles Tandy, the son of Dave, took over the business after World War II and changed the business’s focus to leather craft after seeing how leather crafts
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Arthur Blank, one of the founders of Home Depot, wakes up every morning saying “Who will destroy me today if I don’t keep my eyes open.” Knowing that retailers can’t sit still or they’ll be eclipsed by the competition, Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus started Home Depot after being laid off unexpectedly from Handy Dan
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Robert Woodruff turned a pharmacy elixir into one of America’s best-known consumer brands. Discover several business lessons from Coca-Cola.
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Daisy Braxton was a single mom with five children when she lost her job. To make ends meet she worked several minimum wage jobs that didn’t offer healthcare. Soon, medical bills for her kids overwhelmed her, and she was forced to apply for welfare. Rather than begin a lifelong dependency on the government, she took
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Earl Tupper invented Tupperware but he had a hard time selling it. People didn’t trust plastic, and they didn’t know how to use the product he developed to store items in air-tight containers. His sales for his first six years was essentially flat. Moreover, he was an introvert and could not manage a sales force
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John Johnson grew up in a small shack with a tin roof in rural Arkansas. In an effort to give John more opportunities, his family moved to Chicago when he was 15 years old.However, coming from a poor area in Arkansas, his new classmates made fun of his accent and handmade clothes. To deal with
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What if you could give your customer his order before he was done giving it to you? Well, that idea is what built the drug store Walgreens. When a nearby customer would call in a non-prescription order using the newly developed telephone, Charles Walgreen would repeat the caller’s name, address and order so his assistant
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A few weeks ago we spoke about the negative effects that can result from not appreciating your employees when we discussed the story of Benedict Arnold. On the opposite side of that same coin, I would place Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics. At the core of her business model was employee appreciation. She
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Hearing your name has a profound impact on the brain. Research published in Cerebral Cortex shows that hearing your name activates your cortico-subcortical auditory attention network, a complex way of saying it grabs your focus whether you’re paying attention or not. Similarly, studies in Brain Research demonstrate that hearing your name sparks brain regions tied
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Walt Disney took every challenge to his ideas as an opportunity to prove he was right. Before Disney, cartoons were short animation films between 5-10 minutes in length that were shown before feature films. Walt Disney wanted to produce a full-length cartoon but everyone told him that no one would sit through a full-length cartoon.
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Ray Kroc bought the rights to a small hamburger joint run by Dick and Mac McDonald. He was 52 years old at the time and selling milkshake machines. Ray always believed in the power of a positive attitude in sales. He said, “With a smile and enthusiasm I can influence someone to buy a sundae
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Bill Bowerman was a very successful track and field coach at the University of Oregon. Runners at the University often suffered from shin splints, leg cramps, knee, and back issues as they trained. Bill was obsessed with designing solutions to solve these problems. One morning he was in his kitchen watching his wife Barbara make
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My middle son lives in Bentonville, Arkansas: the headquarters of Walmart. This fact made me want to learn more about Sam Walton, Walmart’s founder. As with many biographical stories, Sam Walton’s life provides several lessons for the entrepreneur. Sam Walton began his career in retail when he bought into a 5&10 franchise known as Ben
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Fred Bear is known as one of the pioneers of the modern archery industry but did you know that he was also a remarkable businessman. Fred is best known for being an avid bow hunter and popular writer for various outdoor and hunting magazines, as well as a film producer. As a kid growing up
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