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Plan Your Business
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5 Tips for Starting a Business
Starting a business can be very difficult, especially since more than 50 percent of UK startups fail within their first year. In our guide to starting a business, we provide a proven method to become...
The Importance of a Fractional CFO for Startups and SMBs
Businesses of all sizes continue to live through one of the most turbulent times in recent memory. Those who can quickly make good decisions based on accurate information and sound projections are more likely to...
Why It’s Important For Businesses to Go Green
Global warming is a reality and sustainability is a necessity. Beyond what one can achieve on an individual level, consumers strive to be environmentally friendly and are searching for companies willing to commit and do...
Top 10 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Decades of research have shown that the super-rich have a lot in common. They share the same mentality, for example, as well as a number of the habits they follow in their personal lives. To...
WJR Business Beat: Start Planning Your 2022 Health Care Coverage Now (Episode 300)
On today's Business Beat, Jeff reminds small businesses that now is the time to plan your 2022 health care coverage. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for more on the importance of your health...
Monetizing Your True Purpose: How to Make Money at Anything
By now, you've mastered the importance of cracking your life’s purpose code and finding your purpose. Now, it’s time to discuss monetizing your true purpose. There are five primary reasons people do not achieve their...
12 Keys to Family Business Success
Family members start a major portion of new businesses launched in the U.S. every year. Brothers come to mind, of course, when it comes to family business. Whatever the family ties, however, starting a business...
Small Business Drive and Passion: What Keeps an Entrepreneur Going?
If you are an entrepreneur just starting out, you’ve probably already gotten a glimpse into the hard work that goes into launching and running a business. While it’s rewarding, there can be sleepless nights and...
4 Steps to Researching Your Startup Idea Before Writing a Business Plan
When you come up with a new startup idea, it’s natural to get excited. You want to get things moving quickly, and you start envisioning what life would be like if you were in charge of...
What it Takes to Be a Winner in Business
I was prepared to do well in the Beijing Games of 2008 in my javelin throw discipline. I trained daily for 15 years, and I was persistent and motivated. Even though I easily threw the...
Business Model Canvas: Escape the DIY Trap
With a piece of paper, a pen, sticky notes and 15 minutes, you can transform your business — and your life. This is all you need to make a Business Model Canvas, which reduces a traditional...
Your Business Needs a (Nontraditional) Plan
The traditional business plan has created the wrong expectations of a CEO at a small business, and there’s a revolution afoot in the way elite MBA programs and Silicon Valley think about small business strategy...
The Art of Business: Meet Your New Canvas
Here's all you need to fundamentally change the way you think about your business, and yourself in relation to it: a piece of paper, a pen, sticky notes and 15 minutes. You might be saying,...
7 Savvy Planning Strategies For Business Owners
"Must Have" Planning Strategies According to the United States Small Business Association and the Internal Revenue Service’s 2011 survey, only about 10 percent of business owners are making more than $100,000 in their business. What...
Big Data Benefits Businesses of All Sizes
"Big data" generates "big information" Big data is being generated by everything around us at all times. Every digital process and social media exchange produces it. Systems, sensors and mobile devices transmit it. A 2012...
Finding success as an older entrepreneur
3 mistakes that can derail an older entrepreneur Launching a business—whether it's a side hustle or second career—is on the minds of many people these days, especially baby boomers. As they get ready to retire,...
Business Owners: If I Had Known Then What I Know Now
I've made many mistakes in business as a business owner the last 20 years. There was a time in the beginning when I thought that I had all of the time in the world. But...
Six Businesses You Can Run From a Tropical Island
There’s been a prominent shift in the way that Gen Y perceives work and the idea of a “career.” No longer are most students graduating and trying to lock down a 30-year job at a...
How to Become a Marketing Superstar
What is the biggest marketing challenge that you have in your business? According to a survey by Marketing Sherpa, 78% of businesses say that their biggest marketing challenge is generating high quality leads. In my work as...
CEOs grow more optimistic, third quarter in a row
Ever heard of "The Conference Board"? It's a global, independent business membership and research association. Their mission is to provide organizations with the practical knowledge they need to improve their performance, among other things. They do...