photo credit: Marcin Wichary Today there are many businesses big and small who are in need of some advice and help in several different sectors of their company. Most of these businesses go on to spend money they really don’t have in order to hire a consultant to come in and fix their business. Today […]
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photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography When going into business with a family member, there are some good points, but then on the other hand there are many bad points to doing business with family that often times result in the dissolving of the business. Below are the top reasons why it is recommended that you
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The Huffington Post: Leslie Newton utilized her experience as a frustrated actor writing and performing sketch comedy and improv at the renowned Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles to help her through the challenge of entering the extremely competitive world of fashion with absolutely no experience. One day in 1999 she cobbled together a handbag for
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GetEntrepreneurial.com: In the business world, it pays to listen and know how to ask the right questions. Miscommunication and misunderstanding can lead to problems… unhappy customers, lost sales, excess inventory, misunderstood instructions, shoddy work, and disgruntled employees … all influencing your company’s bottom line. A good listener can build trust, empathy, and understanding by practicing
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My guest post is up on Cisco Webex’s Ideas in Motion blog. It’s about starting a nationwide for-profit recycling business. Here’s a snippet: This is not just an eco-friendly possibility but would also be a profitable business, because unlike most municipal recycling programs, the business would charge consumers to pickup and remove their recyclables. As
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1767 – Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published. 1819 – The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens. 1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average. 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz
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Chicago Daily Herald: Need some conversation about your small business? Use your laptop, iPad, smartphone or whatever and connect with the Fox Valley Entrepreneurship Center. Still in the birthing process, the FVEC is a virtual small business support center that is part incubator, part accelerator but mostly its own energetic entity. The best way to
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Gismodiva: Movie directors have made quite a bit of money exploiting the hilarity of the inappropriate fart. How unfair, considering it is a universal action! There is no one in the world who can claim that they don’t suffer from flatulence ever. Everyone has had those moments in life when letting it rip would be
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Many people interested in personal finances, investments and maximisation of personal net worth will look at foreign exchange currency – or forex – trading at some point. It is a hugely exciting, fast-paced area, with a global market that never closes, and the possibility to win big (and lose correspondingly ‘large’ too!) Not for the
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