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How to Use AI to Successfully Build and Scale Your Retail Business

Starting a business is no easy task. The commitment and time sacrifice are significant, and the expenditure of capital combined with the stress of managing numerous tasks can be overwhelming. Growing your business can be...

byMichael Hill

October 31, 2022

How to Set Expectations in a Business Partnership to Ensure Success

It’s an exciting moment in the life cycle of a startup when an entrepreneur decides to establish a partnership. Businesses that create partnerships together are able to align with like-minded brands that support and enhance...

byDeborah Sweeney

July 8, 2022

7 Mistakes New E-Commerce Startups Make and How to Avoid Them

As a serial entrepreneur, business adviser and mentor, I’ve seen many e-commerce success stories. But, I’ve also seen some horrible e-commerce startup mistakes that have cost their founders time and money. If there was anything...

byJohn Rampton

April 1, 2022

Why Grit is Essential to Your Success as an Entrepreneur

For entrepreneurs building a business, the initial startup stage is an exhilarating time: you’re energized by your idea and engrossed in building the business. It feels like it’ll always be fun. The hard truth is...

byMarjorie Radlo-Zandi

March 28, 2022

A Healthy Work Culture = Happy Employees, Happy Customers

Roughly 25 years ago, I teamed up with Dr. Larry Patterson to found Eye Centers of Tennessee (ECOTN). When we launched the business, you could count the number of people who believed in our venture...

byRay Mays

February 17, 2022

5 Golden Rules For More Productively Managing Your Time

Low priority tasks and distractions hinder our efficiency. According to productivity experts, we spend 80% of our time dealing with low priority tasks and only 20% with important, vital activities. The question is, how do...

byRon Lev

February 1, 2022

The Startup Coaching Playbook: Do You Need Business Coaching?

The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. You’ve got to pitch investors, target the right customer, hone your business model and raise critical funding just in time. Your team is...

byJonathan Littman and Susanna Camp

December 10, 2021

How to Scale a Business Successfully in 4 Simple Steps

As a new founder at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, you have many tasks at hand and little bandwidth to do them all. There are countless responsibilities, from everyday tasks like investor pitch decks...

byHelen Yu

December 3, 2021

Unnecessary Expenses That Startups Should Avoid

Starting a business can be an exciting time, and the idea of being your own boss and doing what you love is alluring to many. However, with startups being so young, they’ll have additional deficits...

byWilson Field

December 1, 2021

It’s Not Too Late to Make This the Year of the Customer

This is a story about the importance of amazing customer service. Sometimes, entrepreneurs can get too caught up in the day-to-day problems and trying to make money that they forget there are actual humans purchasing...

byShannon Threlfall

November 12, 2021

Goldfish Swim School CEO Shares 5 Must-Haves in Post-Pandemic Playbook

Over the course of the last year, it’s been remarkable to watch successful adjustments to remote work, new innovation projects and everything in between, as small businesses across the nation quickly adapted to changes brought...

byChris McCuiston

November 1, 2021

How to Get Out of Day-to-Day Operations and Into Leadership

When you start a business, you have a vision of what you want running your company to be like. While every founder is different, most entrepreneurs envision customers who love their product or service so...

byChris Sica

October 29, 2021

How to Use CRM and Marketing Automation to Improve Your Scalability

Automation has become a business essential. For entrepreneurs looking to grow their business, the question always is, “How can I work smarter, not harder?” That’s where the power of marketing automation and your customer relationship...

byMatt Buchanan

October 27, 2021

4 Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Ask Themselves

Time is the most important asset you have. Unlike money, once you’ve spent it, you can’t get it back, and how you spend it is important. They say time is money, but time is your...

byAnthony Quinones

October 23, 2021

8 Tips for the Work From Home Solopreneur

You’ve plunged into starting a solo business venture from home. Being a solopreneur is a fantastic experience for motivated individuals, but it can easily become stagnant if you aren’t careful. When everything starts piling up,...

byNathan Resnick

October 15, 2021

How Quality Reporting Helps Smart Entrepreneurs Build Investor Trust and Long-Term Returns

Think of investor reporting as the foundation of trust between a company’s founders and its investors. That trust is earned over time and is strengthened by timely reporting of company results. Strategic entrepreneurs will see...

byJonathon Angell

October 12, 2021

5 Reasons Why Startups Need to Create a Crisis Communications Plan Now

A crisis can happen to any business at any time. While planning for a crisis may seem quite ironic, given that the very definition of the word is something that happens unexpectedly, it is incredibly...

byAmanda Triest

October 11, 2021

6 Ways to Keep Your Startup’s Finances Balanced Year-Round

Now that we are halfway into 2021, it is time to think about how you can further improve your startup’s operations to guarantee greater success in the latter half of the year. During this process,...

byNathan Liao

October 4, 2021

3 Tips to Grow Your Business in the Post-Pandemic Era

Summer is in full swing, and in some areas of the country, mask mandates have lifted and event production companies now have packed schedules. It seems like we are starting to finally overcome and move...

byNathan Liao

September 29, 2021

3 Lessons for Balancing a Side Hustle When Launching a Business

Any founder will tell you that starting a new business while working another job (or two for that matter) is lousy. Figuring out what that side hustle, or main hustle, will be to support launching...

byEd Cornell

September 16, 2021