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Small Business – 4 Reasons You’re Too Small to Fail

Mike Michalowicz

?. Mural by Luke Buchanan, Raleigh, North Carolina. They hire employees who may not be hired by other larger businesses, and have the unique opportunity to create new roles that serve the company as well as prospective employees. You’re increasing the local job market and revenue. It’s a bit bumpy lately, right? .

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. Betsy and I are both still very involved in each market we’re running in and, any important decisions or initiatives (regardless of which city) are still a total team effort. We already have!

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Transcript of How National Companies Can Infiltrate Local Markets

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How National Companies Can Infiltrate Local Markets written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: For national companies trying to infiltrate the local market the community organizations may be the best and last frontier. We were doing local sponsorships as a marketing effort for a client.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. Thanks to Sean Matula, Small Business Consulting Strategic Marketing ! #2- Photo Credit: Adam Karp.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. No mainframe or minicomputer company saw any market for these small machines.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

I grew personally and professionally during those years and brought those experiences with me through my consumer products marketing career. My hands-down favourite business quote is “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur”, by Red Adair.

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