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Analyzing Business Strengths and Weaknesses
In my previous article, I explored the SWOT analysis grid, a widely used business tool that helps entrepreneurs make big decisions in...
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Professional Groups Provide Powerful Ideas for Growth and Improvement
As the co-owner of Lutz Plumbing in Shawnee, Kansas, Amber Lutz-Sewell has one official business partner: her father, Jim Lutz. But she...
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Best of the Decade: Are You Paying the Right Wages?
Your business is growing and it’s clear you’ll need to hire another employee or two by next spring.
Have the wages you’re offering...
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5 Powerful Phrases for Difficult Discussions with Your Employees
Do you ever come up with your best responses an hour after a conversation has ended? Do you ever say to yourself...
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An App That Improves Equipment Asset Management
Embracing new technology that improves operating efficiencies and profitability has played a large role in the growth of Thompson Family Plumbing &...
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3 Steps Business Owners Should Take Prior to Succession Planning
Many business owners today simply do not adequately plan their succession. Reasons for procrastination vary and include not wanting to leave or...
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Great Signage Keeps Phones Ringing and Workers Safe
Ben could hardly wait to set up his own business after years of working for a large company. Knowing the demographics of...
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How to Protect Your Online Search Rankings From Spam
In most markets, the competition is hot. Even if you’re investing in SEO, PPC, and Local Service Ads (LSAs), it can be...
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Spreading the Good News About Your Business
There is an old proverb that goes, “Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person...
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How to Halt the Turnover of Your Top Talent
Exit interviews are often used to find out why departing employees flew the coop. Business professor John Sullivan proposes a better strategy:...
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Rental-Purchase Options Ease Financial Burdens of Equipment Ownership
Two years into business, Nor-Cal Pipeline Services of West Sacramento, California, got hired as a subcontractor on massive multimillion-dollar project that required...
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5 Smart Money Moves to Prosper During a Financial Crisis
There’s no denying that a societal crisis, especially a global one, is a game changer in many ways, particularly in the business...
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The Downside to Being an 'Expert'
There’s a fascinating concept called knowledge blindness. Once you are an expert at something, you can’t imagine what it is like to...
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What is SWOT Analysis?
As a business owner, when you start making plans for the coming year, it’s important to step back and take a long,...
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How You Can Deliver VIP Customer Service Without Raising Prices
As business owners, we often associate an improvement in customer experience with an increase in cost.
We think of airline tickets and the...
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App Eases the Process of Obtaining Online Customer Reviews
It used to be that the biggest marketing decision Rick Clemmons had to make was what size ads to take out in...







