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Top 10 Free Online Classes for Small Business Marketing

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A lot of small business owners know their fields and industries like the back of their hand; it’s why they are so good at what they do. But when it comes to marketing your business, there might be a few (or more than a few) gaps in your formal education or training. Managing a Business Sales and Marketing'

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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My personal analysis is that to make a financial institution successful by catering to the said segment will require a tight control of the types of businesses that are financed. This is why I have focused on micro-franchise oriented businesses where a tightly controlled structure is replicated across a large number of small businesses.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Small Business » Subscriber Content Read Preview. Loading… Careers.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

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Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. She has founded three companies, writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy , and runs the 1M/1M initiative.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging

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Initially I thought he was targeting young Indian consumers, but then he started discussing small business owners. The customized phone number can be representative of the business and a small business owner has a commercial interest in paying for such a service as a way of marketing and branding their business.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

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The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase. We discussed ways to acquire small business customers and how to recruit college students through internships. Social Pulse. Discuss.

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