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Avoiding the Small Business Cash Flow Roller Coaster


A solopreneur I know disappears from my radar screen for weeks on end when she's actively engaged on a project for a client. During this time she is heads down, totally focused, and immersed in delivering her service to her current client.

Operating Your Small Business - Everything Really Is a Project


Do you operate your business as a series of projects, using project management tools and skills to advance your projects from conception to completion? Or perhaps you're new to project management tools and skills and haven't considered applying them to your own business? Most of us fall somewhere in between.Running a productive and efficient business, whether for one person or for 500, is a series of projects of various sizes and complexity.

5 Small Business Management Questions to Help Choose Marketing Programs


As small business managers, we juggle limited resources in a quest for success. To an extent, when we focus on success in one area we forego attention elsewhere.

7 Cash Flow Secrets Your Accountant Never Told You


Looking for ways to boost your cash flow? As a small business consultant, I make these recommendations to my cash strapped small business clients:1. Shoeboxes are for shoes, not business records.

Build Your Small Business by Building Relationships


-- The One Pager Shortcut Series --People do business with people that they know and trust. As a solo entrepreneur, your goals will be to make yourself known to your target market and then elevate the relationship to the trust level.

Blowing Your Own Horn - A Key Marketing Strategy for Small Business


-- Building Credibility Through Success Stories --Successful solo entrepreneurs spend quite a bit of time building and expanding their networks. These networks can cover a broad spectrum - professional associations, community service, school or alumni networks, virtual communities, athletic groups, neighborhood associations.

Marketing Your Small Business with Success Stories


-- The One Pager Shortcut Series --An effective and compelling way to market your business is through the use of success stories. What exactly is a success story? How does it market my business? How can I get started with my own success stories?Consider the following: What exactly is a success story? A success story briefly describes how your business served a client/customer and what results the client/customer achieved.

Growing Your Small Business Through Alliances and Joint Ventures


-- Beyond Cold Calling, "Warm" Calling and Sending E-mails --Many Solo Entrepreneurs work from a home office. Our only connections to the outside world are the internet / e-mail and the telephone.

Top 7 Small Business Tax Tips


Here are seven ways for owners of small businesses to save money on their taxes.1.

Small Business Newsletter Dilemma: Which Day Do I Send?


If you're just ramping up your small business email newsletter, you might be wondering what day you should send it to your opt-in list. After all, you want it to get opened and read and you know your prospects may be weeding through a ton of email clutter.

Small Business Planning -- Three Myths


Are you -- like 70 percent of small business owners -- working without a plan?Here are three myths that need to be dispelled about strategic planning for small business.1.

Business Checks are an Added Cost to Your Small Business - Try Making Them Yourself!


Starting and managing a small business is no fun chore, especially when it comes to the accounting. There are a few common sense ways that you can help that bottom line.

Small Business Mistakes: Are You Making Enough of Them?


That's right ­ are you making enough mistakes in your business? Some of you are probably annoyed at my question; others are thinking "Geez, Rose! If I made any more mistakes I'd have to run screaming back to a day job!"If you went to school in the public school system in America, you were culturally trained to avoid and hide mistakes, after all; your teachers and professors didn't give you a great grade for your efforts unless those efforts produced great results. So, too, if you were an employee in corporate America you were rewarded for chasing perfection and penalized for making mistakes.

Small Business Spoiler - Procrastination


One of the most common issues that comes up for business owners is procrastination -wasting time, putting obstacles in the way of taking action towards goals, making excuses for delays, creating confusion/busyness etc. Procrastination is a self-defeating behavior.

Small Business Savvy: Reaching Key Big Business Decision Makers


As a solo entrepreneur or small business owner, one of our key challenges can be reaching key decision makers in larger companies. Getting to the right person who can seal the deal can be a frustrating experience, especially if you don't have a game plan.

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New Brunswick Conservatives promise to slash small business tax in half
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NAPAN, NB - New Brunswick Conservatives say they would cut the small business tax of five per cent in half over the next four years if they win the ...

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CBIZ Small Business Employment Index Reveals Consecutive Monthly Declines
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This was the second consecutive monthly decline in employee payrolls within the small business surveyed -- an indication that small businesses remain ...

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State retail association offers small business survival seminars
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The South Dakota Retailers Association is sponsoring Small Business Survival Seminars this month in Sioux Falls, Pierre and Rapid City. ...

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Small Business and Search: Where's the Return? (Part 2)
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