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We use to think that fame brought fortune and that fortune brought fame.  But when you’re growing an enterprise and making your company the best, it’s not fame and fortune you seek out.  It’s higher learning. Forget what you think when you hear the name Tyra Banks.  Forget the title she’s held as a Read More

Should it matter whether or not you like a client? Should you be friendly and “buddy-buddy” with your vendors and suppliers? Is it more important that your business partner is an expert in their field or someone you wouldn’t mind having a beer with? We all want to do business with people who are kn Read More

Have you ever struggled with saying “no” to a client but really wanted to?  When we first get our companies up and running and we’re always looking for people to do business with and “no” is the last word we ever want to use.  We’re afraid we’ll turn a profitable situation away or turn people off b Read More

If you could find the time in your busy schedule to volunteer, would you? If you had 5 hours in your week in which you didn’t need the down time, you weren’t finishing up payroll (it’s already done), every email was sent and responded to, every customer was satisfied and smiling, every order was ma Read More

You’ve listened and wised up. You started a blog for your business. And you found a schedule that works for you and post regularly. You added widgets and share buttons. You even liked a few other blogs in hopes a few blogs would like yours in return. You’ve followed a few blogs and few blogs… Read More

With fabulous bookkeeping software tools like QuickBooks, sometimes we think we need to pay a lot to get a lot.  But when it comes to keeping our financials straight, it can be as simple as having a pen, a paper and a calculator.  Yes, it would awesome if we all had the money to hire… Read More

With news apps, social media sites, online discounts and resources, email marketing and paid ads, it’s easy to get lost in what technology we should be using for our businesses.  Between what we do know, what we’ve heard of and what’s up and coming, it all sounds pretty good.  However, not all tech Read More

With the wave of social media seeping into our lives, it’s normal to think ‘out with the old and in with the new’.  That is, new ways to advertise our business, news ways to engage with prospect clients and new ways to demonstrate our products or services to our clients.  Yet, there are a number… Read More

facebook marketing tips Timing is everything, they say, and that premise may apply to social media platforms like Facebook as well. Can timing your posts help increase your return on investment? Read More

When smaller companies start blogging for their business, sometimes they find the lack of content to write about daunting.  They think they have nothing to write about, most topics have already been covered, they’re not very good writers or some other excuse.  And then their writing efforts start t Read More