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Dawn Stratton has been in optometry for just about 23 years now. And when you ask her what those 23 years were like, she’ll say:

“A journey.”

A journey that, like for all optometrists, started with long, grueling years of optometry school. Read More

For nearly as long as there’s been people, there’s been trade. In the long history of humanity, when we aren’t at war, we’ve been interested in buying and selling various goods from each other. Imports and exports are how the potato came to Ireland, and in a more modern sense it’s how we’re able to Read More

The words sound right, but putting them into meaningful action is often something different in Washington, D.C. Here’s what small businesses want to see happen.

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If you’re trying to bring your business’s marketing plan to 2017, you should be looping in some way to build a following on the many social media sites available. With 1.65 billion social media users worldwide, these sites are bustling with new potential customers for your business.

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Have your business’s social media posts become boring and predictable? If you’re feeling frustrated with them, your customers probably are, too.

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We’ve all got our own bad habits—things like hitting the snooze alarm instead of waking up for that early-morning workout, procrastinating on projects, or drinking way too much coffee. But while those habits only affect ourselves, many entrepreneurs have bad business habits that make their customer Read More

The assault on physical currency that began in the 1950s and 1960s with the introduction of credit cards is now a full-scale onslaught against banknotes, as smartphones and other forms of mobile technology increasingly muscle in on the global payment process.

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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs. What do these three entrepreneurs have in common? They all started their business before the age of 25! There’s never been a better time to be a young entrepreneur in America. Universities teach classes on entrepreneurship, incubators have popped up in citie Read More

When looking for ways to boost the bottom line, businesses usually look for shortcuts—apps that automatically do work for you, or techniques to upsell your way to the top. But as in life, there are no shortcuts to the ultimate work hack—happiness.

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The most important thing an aspiring entrepreneur should know before investing in a franchise is that doing so means not really being an entrepreneur. That’s the advice of Joel Libava, a franchise ownership consultant who is also known as The Franchise King. He says not everyone is suited for franc Read More