In-depth profiles of your real customers are valuable promotional materials. Learn how to identify customers to interview and how to best share their stories.
Do you really need those potted plants the first day you open? Learn how creating a realistic budget can help your small business thrive instead of fail.
Honesty is a virtue. So are inventiveness, integrated thinking, and occasional imprudence. Learn how to identify and motivate these key employee virtues.
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The Power of Real People: Using Customer Profiles to Sell Your Story
In-depth profiles of your real customers are valuable promotional materials. Learn how to identify customers to interview and how to best share their stories.
5 Budgeting Ideas for Any Small Business
Do you really need those potted plants the first day you open? Learn how creating a realistic budget can help your small business thrive instead of fail.
Turn Your Annual Operating Plan into a Budget
A budget is a powerful tool for your business, and you can make it even stronger by basing it off of your annual operating plan. Here's how.
How To Grow Your Business Without Going Broke
Too much growth too soon often results in too little cash to keep the doors open.
5 Estimated Tax Strategies for Business Owners
For small business owners, paying income taxes can be tough. Don't make it tougher by adding penalties you can avoid by planning and estimating well.
The 4 Myths of Buying in Bulk Dispelled
Here are the 4 misconceptions we typically attribute to bulk buying, and the truth for each.
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Finance Your New Business: It's Not as Complicated as You Think
Finding money to start a new business can seem hard — but fundamentally, the process really isn't that complicated. Learn how to get financing.
The Language of Accounting
The numbers in your financial statements tell the story of your business. Learn how to read them like a book.
27 Money-Saving Tips from Successful Small Businesses
In economic conditions rich or lean, these tried and true cost cutting tips can fatten your bottom line.
5 Pitfalls of Price Promotions
You can't "make it up with volume" if your your pricing strategy is not aligned with your business strategy.
5 Daily Habits Of Successful Entrepreneurs
Substitute good habits for bad and the momentum you build will push you and your business steadily ahead.
10 Signs You're a Micromanager (And How to Reform Yourself)
If you see yourself in more than a few of these ten signs of micromanagement, seek help immediately.
Recognize And Manage The 5 Stages Of Small Business Growth
From start-up through maturity, leading a small business as it passes through its growth stages requires a variety of skills and temperaments.
3 Undervalued Employee Virtues
Honesty is a virtue. So are inventiveness, integrated thinking, and occasional imprudence. Learn how to identify and motivate these key employee virtues.
5 Ways to Contain Rising Healthcare Costs
Time will tell if Obamacare will boost or trim your health benefit costs. In the meanwhile, try these strategies to keep those costs in line.
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