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5 Ways to Keep Your Small Business Growing

Up and Running

Running a small business is a daunting challenge. Statistically, less than 50 percent of small businesses are still operational after five years. Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. Here are five ways to keep your small business growing.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. A key to building a company that sells to the small business user or individual is usability.

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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

Once upon a time marketers would print up 100 or more flyers and post them on grocery store bulletin boards, power poles, deliver them door-to-door, or distribute them from the cash register. When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. And guess what? Yellow Page Ads.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

They share strategies and techniques of how they implement Profit First, which has become a great tool to keep minority partners actively involved/supportive of the business. Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! Our Guests.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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CuddleCovers Turns Pillows Into Toys

YoungUpstarts

Parents are always willing to spend on their children, so perhaps its not a surprise that one of 2012′s largest growing small businesses is a quirky little product line – Cuddle Covers ( www.cuddlecovers.com ), a series of playful pillow covers that turns a simple child’s sleep aid into a cutesy little soft toy.