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Your Business Professor was advising a CEO after a train wreck caused by his team.
It was a case study on how to derail a project on each of the four parts of management. Usually crashing one part of management is enough. I marveled at the thoroughness of the wreckage. Read More

Business conversation is becoming more informal these days with the use of email and texting. The need to respond quickly has given birth to an entirely new vocabulary and acronyms. Many small business owners need to look them up to understand what people are talking about. Read More

For those looking to give your sales team a bit more incentive to try their best, one company has created an app that makes their sales statistics as simple and competitive as fantasy sports.
The app, created by FantasySalesTeam, provides a creative alternative to boring sales contests by using yo Read More

If you want to gain funding for your startup, you need to be able to grab the attention of investors. There are several ways to do this. But one of the more unique methods is the one recently used by Eliam Medina. Read More

Retailers, get ready for yet another opportunity to market and SELL your wares to customers, through social media.
The big thrust of social media, to date, has been content marketing to drive leads through a sales funnel.
However, with the implementation of buy buttons within your social feed, yo Read More

Just when you think you know everything about your favorite social media site, there are always new and exciting changes. And then there are some secret social media hacks you’ll wish you knew before reading this.
There are so many of them in fact, that I’m going to highlight a couple here for Ins Read More

It happens to every retailer from time to time. No matter how well you try to forecast sales trends and manage your inventory purchasing, you end up with slow selling products that just don’t sell, or an overstock of certain items that you just bought too much of.
This can happen for a variety of Read More

The challenges that you will face over the course of running a business will be plentiful and unpredictable. But learning to adapt and taking tips from experienced entrepreneurs can help you make it through those challenges unscathed.
Here, members of our small business community have shared some Read More

Showing you care about your industry and other small business owners goes a long way toward getting your name out there. Increased visibility can mean staying on customers’ and potential clients’ minds. There are so many opportunities to step outside your office and get some face time at one of the Read More

I have been living in our dorp — term for a South African small village or town — on the coast for over 14 years now. At its heart is the business center which contains approximately thirty small and medium sized businesses.
Of these businesses, only half have been in existence the entire time tha Read More