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Are You Stuck In A Mental Rut With Your Small Business? Learn How We Got Out

Every entrepreneur has gone through it at least once. It’s not pleasant. It’s not fun. But things will go wrong and you will feel like quitting. read more »
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How to make marketing easier

Get to know your potential customer and clients before you try and sell them something. It will make a huge difference in your confidence in approaching them and will result in higher success rates in acquiring the work. read more »
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There is a market for homemade goods - marketing fundi

n interview with the founder of Etsy at this year’s Davos made interesting viewing. In particular it’s encouraging to see that homemade products are doing well, in this instance sold online. For people who need to generate income, and who doesn’t re read more »
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7 Wildly Successful People Who Survived Bankruptcy

Get inspired on how this popular-historical-figures survived bankruptcy. read more »
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What to do during an economic winter

What are we to do when we face economic hardship. Do we sit back and wait for things to get better, or do we go out into the world fighting? read more »
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Marketing ideas for seconds

Make sure you and your product are easy to find. Throw out the welcome mat, put lights up the drive, have a butler open the door for your customers, pour the welcome champagne and above all allow the world in to your business. read more »
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What can we learn from Nollywood

Are you honest when creating your products or are you like Hollywood, all showtime and smoke and mirrors. read more »
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How to Make Money with Giving Something Away For Free

It is a well-known, but actually just a little used fact: People love free thing. If you go to a street corner and start to give away pens, people line up to take them from you. This is true even if you are giving away something they don't need. read more »
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Choose your marketing message with caution

The difference in wording might be quite small, but the message is either inclusive or exclusive depending on the words used. How are you sending out your business message? Are you welcoming them or only allowing them access to your product. read more »
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Interview: So You Want to Own a Franchise

A lot of Americans wish to work for themselves. One way to do that is through franchising. Franchising allows a person to set up a turn-key business in many instances with established systems in place. read more »
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How to Decide If You Should Become an Entrepreneur

If you’re seriously thinking of starting your own business, then you have what it takes to start your own business. We’ve seen that “personality” and other personal attributes are poor predictors of entrepreneurial inclination, let alone success. read more »
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Success: Who Dares Wins?

Following the crowds won't get you there read more »
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Recession should inspire new entrepreneurs

Economic recession frequently is a fertile ground for new entrepreneurs to start small businesses. If past recession history is any guide, this time [...] read more »
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Get the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Free with This Review

This is really a great book. Best of all, enter for your chance to win one free!
Deadline for entry is Jan 24! read more »
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Take the Obama message of honesty and integrity and apply to your business

One of the important issues Obama spoke about was of restoring honesty and integrity into government and in this way in the lives of his people. This[...] read more »
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