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What Obstacles Hold Back Businesses from Growing as Fast as They Want?
"Ivan - Excellent points. While many business owners would love to have the "problem" of growing fast you have to be careful not to move too fast. If you don't have supporting employees and processes in place you might end up hurting your business while trying to grow."5 Bad Business Habits To Break Now
"The last one (thinking short-term) is very important. It can provide you higher sales and profit immediately, but will give you lot more headache down the road. Great businesses are built by focusing on long-term vision and strategy rather than focusing on short-term profit."Online Reputation: Top Mistakes Businesses Make
"#2 is very important. You have to be genuine and yourself in the online world. Delegating this responsibility to someone else can do damage to your online reputation. I would also add that many business owners make the mistake of not engaging enough in the online world. They just think that establishing a profile on Facebook or Twitter is sufficient to reap the benefit of online. This is a big misconception."4 Tips to Make Meetings More Efficient
"While I agree with all the points made about making the meeting efficient, you should not lose sight of keeping them effective as well. Many meetings people attend today are waste of time. You need to establish a clear purpose, objective and direction as well as follow up with action items and next steps to get the most out of meetings."Niche Marketing: How to Identify Niches and Find Untapped Profit
"Miranda - Excellent post. Niche marketing is one way small businesses can compete with their large competitors. This is how many of the start-ups got started. Finding a hole in the market and catering to that demographic is the best way to generate profit."Peer to Peer Lending: Alternative Funding for Small Business Loans
"P2P lending has been growing in popularity in the last few years and I expect it to continue to rise. I think it's an ideal solution for someone who doesn't have sufficient credit to apply for bank loan and cannot turn to angel investors or VCs. Another popular variant on this is Kickstarter where you can get funding for a project that you believe in, but are unable to find financing."The No. 1 Reason Business Ideas Fail and How You Can Avoid It
"Trial and error is the hallmark of all successful inventors and entrepreneurs. You just have to make sure you learn from the mistakes and use that knowledge to improve your idea in the next iteration. How many times did Thomas Edison fail before coming up with the working prototype of a light bulb?"5 Dummy-Simple Ways to Offer the Best Customer Service in the Biz
"I particularly like the first tip - listen to your customers. Just by listening to them either face to face, on phone or on internet you can find a lot of about what customers are saying about you and what they like or dislike about your business. I would also add that you should try to create customer centric culture that permeates throughout your company. When everyone is trained and onboard with this philosophy the good customer service will occur naturally."How To Grow Your Business With Elimination | M4B Marketing
"Do more with less is the mantra every business should adopt. Apple is a great example of the company that has been successful by following this principle. As someone said - I did not have time to write a 1 page letter, so I wrote 5 pages instead. It takes deliberate effort to reduce complexity, but at the end it's worth it."Subscribe
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5 Warning Signs You’re Interviewing the Wrong Candidate
"Great tips. I think #4 (Lack of Engagement) is a deal breaker for me. If the job applicant does not appear interested and engaged in the interview it will get worse from there after you hire him. "