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Obamacare: What it means for your business
What do the new healthcare reform laws mean to you and your small business? Will they mean spending thousands of extra dollars per year that you hadn't budgeted? Or maybe you'll be lucky enough...
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Playing to win: Steps to help your business succeed
It takes an idea to start a business but it takes patience, discipline, and focus to turn a business into substantial profit. According to the Small Business Association, over 50% of all small...
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Starting a small business: Key ingredients for success
Are you someone who feels more secure working for someone rather than starting your own business? What if I told you that working for someone else is a false sense of security? It’s no secret that...
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Slow motion train wreck: The impending economic collapse
Corporate earnings have been strong over Q4 2011 & Q1, 2012 but that trend may be changing. Earning announcements for Q2 are coming in and showing a definite weakening in corporate earnings. What...
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Build it right: Lessons for building a strong business model
Many entrepreneurs are eager to turn their ideas into a business. Unfortunately, most businesses fail due to a lack of proper funding. Many small businesses are started through bootstrapping – using...
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Paying it forward: How small businesses team up in hard economic times
Over the Labor Day weekend, my wife and I had the opportunity to travel to Gold Beach, Oregon to enjoy a 104-mile trip on the Rogue River with Jerry's Jet Boats. This may not sound like...
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Delusional thinking: How it's killing America
A friend of mine, Steve Siebold, recently released a book called 'Sex, Politics, and Religion… How Delusional Thinking is Destroying America.' I have to agree! We’re literally killing ourselves...
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Silver and gold: Why invest in them and which is the better acquisition?
Over the past year, we’ve seen gold prices skyrocket past $1,500 per ounce. But what about silver? In just two short years, silver prices have more than doubled from around $15 per ounce to around...
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Taxmageddon: The coming tax changes
If you’re not aware of the coming tax changes, then listen up. There are people and business owners talking about taxmaggedon. Taxmaggedon is a one-year, $494 billion tax increase that will begin as...
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Emotional IQ: Post election reaction
Now that the presidential election is over, everything is back to normal right? Not exactly. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but there have been a flood of post election opinions flying around on...
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Planning for success: Small businesses prepare for the year ahead
The end of the year is near and it’s time to begin thinking about your 2013 business goals. Whether you had a great or not so good 2012, it’s time for a new year and...
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Lack of mental toughness: A primariy component in Connecticut school...
Words cannot begin to describe the events that took place in Newton, Connecticut today. As kindergartners through fourth graders gathered to start their day at Sandy Hook Elementary School, twenty...
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President Obama's inauguration: A picture of an emotional America (Video)
Now that the presidential election is over and President Obama has been re-elected to office, it's time for his inaugural speech. Before I go further, I must confess that I'm not a strong supporter...
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Sales 101: Leaving voicemail for prospects
A solid voice mail message is one way that you can begin building a connection with a prospective client. Here are some ingredients you'll want to include in your voice mail messages so that you can...
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Effective goal setting: A time tested process
Many people and small businesses set goals at the beginning of the year but few actually accomplish them. Has this happened to you? If you answered 'yes', then know that you're not alone.  ...
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Breaking through using the success triangle
Many people wish they were more successful than they are and some even spend a lot of money on programs that promise wealth and richness. Some people succeed while others are stuck and cannot get he...
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Is it better to give or receive?
Every small business has one goal: to make money by selling its products and services. Consumers in the local, regional, and national marketplace happily pay for these products. Most business owners...
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Is your small business ready for the next market crisis?
The last recession started in 2007 and reached its bottom around March 2009. During the recession, many smaller companies went out of business or were acquired by larger, more stable companies in...
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Are you running away from something or toward something?
Building a successful small business from the ground up requires significant discipline, effort, time, and financial resources. Entrepreneurship is about more than just becoming your own boss. Sure,...
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Do you have an unfair competitive advantage?
If you are in business, you know how important it is to have a competitive advantage over your competitors. Each and every day, they are nipping at your heels for market share and will stop at nothing...
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