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Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS

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That’s what turns planning into management, with a cycle I call P-R-R-R, for plan-run-review-revise. They include launch dates, review dates, prototype availabilities, advertising, social media, website development, and programs to generate leads and traffic. They are the building blocks of strategy and tactics.

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The 7 Website Mistakes Small Business Owners Make (and How to Avoid Them)

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Mistake #2: Believing that web development has to be rocket science. The Fake Fix: Some web development companies and industry specialists promised all-in-one solutions. If you’re an independent professional, you don’t need an elaborate project management set-up. You don’t need a lot of bells and whistles.

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Customer Relationships Key to Restaurant Success

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During one of my trips there, I decided to chat with Big Tony about how he built his business and how he manages to continue to succeed with so much competition. Zipper’s doesn’t have a website and Tony doesn’t spend a lot of money on advertising. Of course, that’s part of the reason folks like us come back time and time again.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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The company provided marketing services like strategy, advertisement, research to businesses. I decided to focus on providing complete digital marketing services like web strategy, website development and full suite of digital marketing. #25- 25- Came up with a tagline to demonstrate what we do. Not liking the “.co”

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

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I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. The job was building relationships with partners and advertisers and to sell advertising. Sure, we did get paying customers and so on, but didn’t manage to really get going.

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