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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

Up and Running

Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Start doing guerilla marketing. Invest in printed marketing materials. Create a website. Set up a business email account. Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!). Share customer stories and experiences. Create a paid advertising campaign.

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The Ultimate Work From Home Checklist

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Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Start doing guerilla marketing. Invest in printed marketing materials. Create a website. Set up a business email account. Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!). Share customer stories and experiences. Create a paid advertising campaign.

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Q318 Staycation: Resting, Reading, and Little Running

Feld Thoughts

At the same time, a guerilla group begins terrorizing a world that mistreats women, and Plum becomes entangled in a sinister plot. ” Dave Jilk (my first business partner and, at this point, other than my brother, my longest standing friendship) and I are working on a book project currently titled Nietzsche for Entrepreneurs. .”

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Stimuli, Scaffolding, Seeing — for Innovative Ideas

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Eight. Now, the point of this chapter of Guerilla Innovation is to form a new daily practice, a behavior. Let’s imagine you are out with your partner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Everything is Stimuli for Scaffolding to Better Ideas. Mental patterns often prevent us from making new connections.

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Nine Keys to Entrepreneurial Survival

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation — Chapter Thirteen. This post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation is about money and the concept of survival. My very first business, Point Blank Media, I was forced to sell my share to my partner because I just couldn’t make it another month. The working title is Guerilla Innovation.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

They offered employees referral bonuses, posted on job boards and committed themselves to so-called "guerilla recruiting." The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. So were willing to pay for good talent."

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How to Have the Best Opening Day Ever

Up and Running

Partner with your local Chamber of Commerce and hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Katherine of CycleBar recalls how they partnered with their local chamber of commerce for their ribbon cutting ceremony, which was a huge success. If you plan on offering giveaways, consider partnering with other local businesses. Opening a brewery?