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Try These Best Practice Tips to Reach Your Business Goals in 2012

Try these best practice tips to set up your small business for success in 2012 and beyond. Develop a plan to get started today!

If you don’t have a business plan, think about the direction you want your business to go and develop a business plan. If you already have one; see if it [...]

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Is There Conflict In the Business…

Between what you ask your employees to do and company policies?

I recently saw this Dilbert cartoon and it reminded me of a story from a friend who works at a financial firm. Here’s her story…see if you can relate:

Each employee was asked to take at least 25 hours of professional development [...]

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Managing Publicity for Your Business

A recent article in Business on Main entitled, Don’t Let To-Die-For Publicity Kill Your Business, reminded me of a local restaurant that served fantastic Arabic cuisine.

The restaurant, soon after opening, was visited by a restaurant critic who posted his review in The Boston Globe magazine and a few other magazines. The critic raved [...]

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Money is Available for Small Business Investment

I was recently invited to an event put on by Owen Clark of Byzhub. The speaker, Basil Peters is an experienced Angel Investor who discussed opportunity for entrepreneurs seeking investors. For more than 5 years news outlets are predicting D-Day, the lack of financial support for Small Business owners, which would cripple the [...]

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Five Easy (and Cheap!) Ways to Reward Your Employees This Year

Many small businesses can’t afford to spend a lot of money rewarding their employees for a job well done and, since they cannot, often skip doing anything. Not a good idea! Acknowledge your employees’ hard work this year in any of these 5 easy (and not expensive!) ways:

Give employees an extra day off [...]