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How To Make Sure Your Customers Still Trust Your Small Business


The stock market is still on a wild roller coaster ride. Trust in business is at an all time low. Do your customers still trust you? Here are seven ways to help you make sure.

Is Your Small Business Name Important?


You bet a name is important. Many small business owners try to come up with a clever name for their business rather than one that explains what they do. And, nine times out of ten, that is a mistake. Your business name should give your prospects some idea of what your business is about.

Procrastinate Your Way To A Successful Small Business


What will your business look like a year from today?

7 Reasons To Take Control Of Your Small Business? Checking Needs


Business checks are available in many styles and varieties. They offer many benefits to your small business, some you may not have thought of.

10 Hiring Tips for Small Business Owners


As a successful small business owner,you're accustomed to long hours; non-existent holidays and weekends spent working.

Three Ways to Add Leverage to Your Small Business


Remember those drawings from science class of how a lever works?

Small Business Secrets: Self-Confidence Can Be Arranged


At first blush this idea might be difficult to wrap your brain around. That's because you've been taught that self-confidence is achieved through mastery of knowledge or skills.

Three Small Business Secrets to Getting More Billable Time


As small business owners we?re in business to make money doing what we love. And that means we need enough billable hours to cover our expenses, our payroll, upgrades in skills and technology, and profit. But if stay in business for any length of time, you eventually reach the point where you just don't have more hours in the day to give to your business. After all, you have a personal life too. (If you don't have a personal life, you really need to work on that.) So, if you've maxed out on the hours you have available to build your business, how can you get more billable hours?

Small Business Success Secret: Focus on Your Genius Work?


Do you know what your genius work is? It's the highest and best use of your time. It's the best leverage your business has in the marketplace.

Discover How You Can Start Making Your Small Business Dream Come True


As a teenager I worked for my father's small business. At 18 I worked for a small video rental business owned by two partners; there were 4 employees. At 23 I worked for an auto body shop, the owner was from Greece; there were 8 employees. At 25 I became CEO of my family's small business; we have 15 employees. Today, I own a 3-employee automotive repair shop; an online business; a promotional licensing business and I still consult for my family's business.

Why Small Businesses Fail (or Fail to Thrive)


Tammy, a skilled and gifted horticulturist, called me to discuss what she needed to know to start her own florist and landscaping business. She had been in the horticulture industry for 10 years and was incredibly skilled at working with flowers and plants ? one of the best. She also had great design skills, as well as good customer service skills. But she had little business management experience and less self-employment experience.

Is a Small Business Web Site a Wise Investment?


One of the greatest pitfalls in e-commerce is Field of Dreams thinking, the notion that all one has to do is ?build it (a web site) and they will come.?

7 Essentinal Resources for Small Business


So you want to start a business but you don't have a lot of money? Start your business online, and it won't be a problem.

Conquering Confidence Killers for Small Business Success


"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear". -- William Jennings Bryan

How Most Business Owners Sabotage Their Success


Owning a business is a challenging endeavor. If you're like many novice small business owners, you've taken numerous risks with your time and your money, only to see all of your efforts producing little or no result. This can leave you frustrated and ready to give up. That's no surprise. The more we focus on the negative parts of owning a small business the more negative results we will attract. Learning how to deal with obstacles is the key to avoiding failure. Those small business owners who never learn to deal with obstacles will often become overwhelmed and end their business. Negative thinking is the center of the small business failure scenario.

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