Small Business Success Secret

Steps to Starting a Small Business: #1 – The Idea

October 27, 2008

The topic of starting a small business is ALWAYS a popular one.  If you are a small business owner and you meet someone who is toying with the idea of starting a small business, you’ll probably hear the question asked, “How did you get started?” When I would ask that question years ago, it would [...]

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Strategic Marketing: Using Deadlines and Discounts

October 11, 2008

Strategic marketing means promoting your products and services with a clear cut plan. Like most small business marketing consultants, I do a MUCH better job of doing this with my clients than I do in applying strategic marketing practices to my own stuff. If you didn’t know it before, you should learn this now; it’s [...]

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Best Kept Internet Marketing Strategies Secrets

September 24, 2008

One of the best kept internet marketing strategies is cross promotion and one of the best ways to illustrate this best kept internet marketing strategy secret is to illustrate it  in a case study. The basics of cross promotion are really quite simple. First, you determine your target audience. In this case study, the company [...]

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New Business Development Process

September 22, 2008

I have been having new business development process issues coming up in consultations with clients lately so that’s usually a sign that I should write about it here.  This morning I saw that other blogs were talking about the new business development process, so this issue is obviously “bubbling up”for other people as well and [...]

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Carbonite Online Storage Review

June 21, 2008

Back in April, I got an email from my FTP software people offering a free 30 day trial of Carbonite Online Storage. I signed up and when 30 days was up, my backup still wasn’t complete but I signed up anyway. I had worked during the backup and hadn’t noticed any drag at all of [...]

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Small Business Success Secret: Defeating Doubt

June 12, 2008

One of the biggest “success killers” you’ll encounter when launching a new business (or a new product line) is self doubt. Yet overcoming this seemingly small hurdle is essential if you’re to achieve small business success! Small Business Success Secret: Defeating Self Doubt Monika Mundell writes brilliantly about the role of self doubt in her [...]

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