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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

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Set up a business email account. Find good business partners and people who will refer you. You may not have a physical storefront, but you have a killer website, an active Instagram profile, and a business email that you actively chat with customers through. Start doing guerilla marketing. Create a website.

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The Ultimate Work From Home Checklist

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Of the 543,000 new small businesses started each month, approximately 52 percent of them are home-based. It’s no surprise really when you consider the primary reason for starting a business from home has to do with money (or lack thereof). Set up a business email account. Start doing guerilla marketing.

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Grow Your Business With This Excellent Advice from 7 Exceptional Small Business Coaches

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Accountability and self-discipline are vital to your business’s success. Business coaches provide that extra accountability you may need. Entrepreneur’s Jeff Boss writes : A coach serves as an accountability partner who challenges you to strategize and develop your goals while aligning your efforts toward achieving them.

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Birthing the Start Up Baby

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation – Chapter 11. Until now the focus of this online-blogged-book on small business innovation has been a guerilla innovation mindset. This includes thinking, idea generation, creating, amping, and planning for getting a new business going. I hope by now you’ve got a specific business idea in mind.

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Grow Your Business With This Excellent Advice from 7 Exceptional Small Business Coaches

crowdSPRING Blog

Accountability and self-discipline are vital to your business’s success. Business coaches provide that extra accountability you may need. Entrepreneur’s Jeff Boss writes : A coach serves as an accountability partner who challenges you to strategize and develop your goals while aligning your efforts toward achieving them.

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Stimuli, Scaffolding, Seeing — for Innovative Ideas

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Eight. In my last post I introduced you to the concept of “Scaffolding” For those who are starting here, it’s essentially a thinking tool to take your mind to a new place — and aid in the objective of coming up with an innovative idea for your small business.

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Nine Keys to Entrepreneurial Survival

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation — Chapter Thirteen. Isn’t it weird that this post on small business innovation survival is Chapter Thirteen? One of the most telling statistics about starting a business is that the longer you can hold out the more likely it is you’ll survive and do well. I’ve been there.