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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

Business coach Jennifer Martin suggests comparing vendors and getting quotes at least once a year to make sure everything you’re paying for is a fair market rate, including your merchant card services. DIY Marketing and PR. South Africa. Check out the South African Savings Institute. ” Be creative.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I started R Public Relations on a wing and a prayer, but my reputation in the public relations world has followed me to success. The market is over bloated with solutions of all sorts claiming that they’ll improve your business routine, but very few of them succeed at that. Image Credit: Saleem Jaffer.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

The growing impact investment market provides capital to address the world’s most pressing challenges in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, clean technology, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education.” –the Global Impact Investing Network.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses. #19 In the digital marketing space, it seemed like every good name was taken. The rest is history!

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How To Leverage Your Time & Revenue During A Business Transition

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Now Or Never When I started my public relations business, McDuling PR, back in 2007 it was a pretty big step for me. I am not originally Australian – I was born and raised in South Africa and then Ireland, before moving here as a teenager. It is all consultancy based work and requires a lot of input, time and effort.

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How Kerry McDuling Went From Employee To Running Her Own Publicity Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Next year when I release a new training program I’m doing something a little different to market it – I’m hiring a publicist to get coverage in Australia for myself and the product. I don’t have any specific qualifications in Public Relations, and its not really necessary, with the journalism degree being sufficient.