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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

However, the challenges you face are the same ones that every successful small business owner has faced and then surmounted in some way or another. It can be instructive and inspirational to hear about businesses that triumphed over adversity. How these six businesses worked with the SBA to grow. Inspiration for growth.

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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s how your company operates internally, but it has no allegiance to the core of your business: making money and growing at a steady pace. Instead, focus on these three traits to help your small business blossom: 1. What’s more, culture can’t be “tracked” — that’s what KPIs are for. The Bottom Line.

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Referral Programs: A Guide for Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Referral Programs: A Guide for Small Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Running a business is hard But with a good referral program it doesn't have to be As a small business owner you are probably thinking about helping your current customer or trying to figure out how to increase sales.

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Small business Congress-watch: Two Reasons to Call Your Representative!

crowdSPRING Blog

Right now you are probably asking yourself, “What has Congress done lately that is helping small business?” Small business people rarely hire lobbyists, and rarley have the time or resources to visit Washington DC themselves to meet their elected representatives. Hard to believe, but it is true.

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Small Business and Startups: Net Neutrality, Part Deux

crowdSPRING Blog

Just about 4 years ago, I wrote on these pages about the struggle to protect the internets and some proposed legislation that was threatening the many small businesses and startups who depend on cyberspace to do business, feed their families, and assure that their employees will continue to be paid.

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11 apps to promote healthy lifestyles among employees

The Next Web

These days, there’s an app for everything small-business related, from easing the pains of payroll to holding virtual meetings with contractors on the other side of the world. DC Fawcett , Paramount Digital Publishing. This is especially great while traveling, since you may not be familiar with the local restaurants. -

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Attend The Small Business Technology Tour

Up and Running

Before I forget, or the time gets too close, Ramon Ray’s Small Business Technology Tour is going to be in Mt. View (CA), Salt Lake City, Boston, Washington DC, and Atlanta this fall. I recommend this to anybody in the small business or entrepreneurship arena who can attend. and organize events.