When you’re starting a business, it’s best to start with a written business plan. This way you can logically think through your vision for the business, set out your goals, along with a timeframe, and tell the reader how you’ll achieve those goals. In the book What They Don’t Teach You in the Harvard Business [...]

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Some small business owners plan to the smallest detail, sometimes planning themselves into a nervous breakdown from long hours and stress. Others are completely impulsive, shouting orders madly and cursing the dolts who didn’t order enough whatchamacallits. Neither extreme results in smooth production in all areas of the business. The first trick to planning is [...]

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The principles of starting a successful online business are really no different than those that apply to launching any type of business. Before you start an ecommerce company, you must do your research to verify that the idea you have is a sound one that there is a market for, and you must also develop [...]

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As a business owner, you can expect that your business will go through 3 distinct phases of development. Each phase brings its own success and challenges. If you are aware of these stages and what financial tools apply to each, your business will be better prepared to THRIVE. I call the first stage “Survival Mode”. [...]

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So you want to become an internet marketer. That is wonderful, but there are some very important steps you’re going to have to take first if you truly want to become successful. The first of these steps is to realize that as an internet marketer you are no longer a consumer which means you have [...]

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