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How Taking a Sabbatical Can Help Your Business
It seems counter-intuitive for us to take (what some may see as) excessive time off from our businesses in order to prosper and grow. But it works.
The Truth About Government Contracting
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Lifestyle Employee Benefits with Payback
Wellness programs, employee assistance programs (EAPs), and more hold promise for boosting employee well-being and company profits.
Financial Statement Analysis: Recognizing Debt Overload
Business owners can avoid "delayed realization" by recognizing unwieldy debt structures, which could destroy their companies.
Customer Ideas to Ignore
Your customers' ideas can be your greatest inspiration...or the source of your failures. These ideas are better left at the bottom of the suggestion box.
Improving Sales Forecast Accuracy with a PERTy Formula
Borrow an estimating tool from the US Navy to help bring your sales forecasts in line with your sales reality.
Why Offline Marketing Still Matters
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The Art of the Reminder
Don't just remind vendors, clients, and employees of their obligations. Remind them why they agreed to those obligations in the first place.
Use Value-Added Sales to Boost Your Profit Margin
Your margins are under attack. Defend them!
Turn Your Business Into a Money Machine
When it comes right down to it, every business is a money machine. Some are just better designed than others.
Frugality, Small Business, and More with Thousandaire's Kevin McKee
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How can you package and sell services online in a way that leverages the precious resource of time but offers tremendous value to customers and doesn’t compromise service qualit
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How much pro bono work should you accept? How should you choose the customers? And how do you ensure these friendly freebies don't land you in the scope creep sinkhole?
5 Things to Know About the ADA
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