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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Is your small business website helping or hindering your business? If you’re like most small businesses, your website is outdated, and not helping you to increase revenues and sales. Even if you have a blog, it might be lost in your website navigation and might look like it was designed in 1997.

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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Today, almost 40 percent of the nation’s privately held companies are owned by women, and women launch an average of 1,000 businesses per day. Women’s Business Centers (WBC).

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10 Tips To Help You Build A Successful Small Business Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

Your brand lives in everyday interactions with your customers, the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, and in your posts on social networks. How can a small business develop a strong brand on a tiny budget? Recognition starts with the name of your business.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- 1- Establishing high goals. 11- Several ways.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale.

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Paying Lip Service to Developing Entrepreneurs

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Younger people are not starting businesses like they used to. in 1997 to 24.7 The percentage of new entrepreneurs who are women has also dropped significantly since 1997. Business schools, where the most likely entrepreneurs go, are rewarded with high rankings for turning out graduates who get great Salary Jobs.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. Small Business Administration. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.