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Nothing really big ever happened without a vision, says Gail Blanke, Founder and CEO of Lifedesigns LLC. That includes the world of business, she says, and adds that these visions are usually provided not by those who fit in but by those who stand out. Watch the video at Open Forum Innovation. It's really quite inspiring. Read More

EPC CIGAR COMPANY manufactures and distributes cigars that are hand-rolled in the Dominican Republic from Ecuadorean, Nicaraguan and Dominican tobacco. It has been in business since April, although the family that owns it previously ran a successful cigar company that was sold to Swedish Match in 1999. Read More

Here's a list of some terrific franchise blogs that I read regularly. (I'm subscribed to a few of them, too) Some of these top franchise blogs are run by folks that I know fairly well, while some of them are... Read More

From a podcast interview with entrepreneur John Warrillo at Startup Nation we look at five reasons NOT to give your first employees equity in your company. Let's get a discussion going here at bizSugar.com. What do you think. Sweat equity has been often discussed as a means for cash starved entrepreneurs to gain valuable work from potential employees that they otherwise would not have the money t Read More

If you run an ecommerce business, chances are your customers – regardless of their age, gender or economic status – are active on social networks and social media sharing sites. Leverage these five social media marketing tips for ecommerce to either get started with more social digital marketing or take your current social strategy to the next level. Read More

Here’s yet another example of how today’s technology can drastically improve your email marketing for small business. Are you leveraging your Web site to offer a virtual tour to showcase your products and services? Virtual tours can be a great way to bring your showroom to your customers, rather than worrying about bringing customers to your showroom. This strategy has been working for home build Read More

Travis Campbell wrote this blog post while at InfusionCon (@infusionsoft) the email marketing 2.0 experts and their user conference. Followup marketing isn't nearly as hard when it's profitable. Follow these strategies and see for yourself. Read. Learn. Connect. Read More

Salespeople don’t sell product or services; they sell outcomes. Successful salespeople manage these outcomes for their clients and their companies, ensuring that they achieve the results and the outcome that they sold. Follow these steps to better manage your client’s outcomes. Read More

Entrepreneurs, in fact everyone, loves their own business ideas. But before starting a business on those ideas it makes sense to test them - here's how. Read More

I got off the phone with the assistant "director," of this local tutoring franchise business, and felt really embarrassed. I couldn't believe that we were both in the same industry. The franchise industry. Here's how one five minute phone conversation... Read More