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Ten steps to workplace success

Your employees are not mind readers or fortune tellers, and your business is not a free-form venue for experimentation, or a place where individual preference based on mood, time of the day, or random circumstance...
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Overcoming Failure to Launch

So you’ve got some ideas, a decent prototype, and a couple customers to boot…now what?  Sadly, many would-be entrepreneurs fail at running a business before they even start.  The complexity of a business plan, lack...
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Shhh…Three Secrets for Amazing DIY Publicity

Do-it-yourself publicity isn’t for the faint of heart, but it isn’t impossible either.  Over the past couple of years I’ve been able to secure several high profile publicity “hits” on my own and I’ve learned...
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Beyond the Launch…feedback from Heather

I've received some great feedback and questions from readers after my initial post.  Several of them gave specific information about their business successes and dilemmas.  In the true sense of community, I wanted to share...
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Hello StartupNation!

My name is Heather Nolte, and I have enjoyed being a small business owner for the past four years.   My company, Glamajama.com , is a lifestyle clothing company that creates glam-studded clothes for women, toddlers, and...
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Don’t Expose Your Assets!

There you are. You just finished reading Rich and Jeff Sloan’s book and you are fired up! You have an idea that you are certain will make make the invention of those small yellow sticky...
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To move forward, work backward

Have you ever heard someone say, "let's do a work back"? I met with a techie recently who was talking about how he approaches creating a great website. He said, "My preferred strategy is to...
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Planning to Write Your Business Plan

My new company's business plan went from beta to final release today. I'm very proud of the final product, and am excited to circle back to to prospective investors. In my opinion, Jeff and Rich...
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Does your business plan include blue jeans?

It's often quite fascinating to see how the mind of an entrepreneur jumps from one thought to another. Readers of this blog are familiar with how typical everyday events are the supporting content for what...