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Credit Cards for Businesses
A business credit card is helpful during tough financial times. These credit cards not only provide owners with the funds they need, they can also help owners establish business credit.
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Enhancing Your Credit with a Credit Card
While perfect credit is not a requirement to start a business, it does help if you need to secure a loan, purchase large amounts of inventory and supplies or need to rent office space. The guest article below shows how getting a credit card and using it wisely can boost your credit.
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Giveaway: A Fashion Designer’s Big Break. What’s Yours?
Sometimes, all a business needs to push it over the edge is one big break. For fashion designer, Camilla Olson, that break came when a dream client wore one of her designs on the red carpet. Share your big break or your dream client for a chance to win this month's giveaway.
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The Basics of Taking Your Business Mobile
Is your business mobile-ready and able to take advantage of these consumers? Small business writer, Joanna L. Krotz explains the basics of taking your business mobile.
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Tips on When Promotional Items Work and When they Don’t
Looking to invest in promotional products for your business? Learn 3 marketing tips to make sure your items wind up in the right hands.
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The Million Dollar Elevator Pitch
Stuck in an elevator with a venture capitalist? Don't panic! Adam Hoeksema shares a simple 6 step outline to help you structure your business pitch for potential investors.
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Why It’s Time to Go Google
It might appear as though everyone, and everything, is moving to the cloud these days. So why not join the pack? But if you’re seriously considering migrating to the cloud - and you should be - it’s also time to start seriously considering going Google.
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Back to the Basics of Marketing – Relationships
Adam Obrecht of AO Wealth Advisory shares the inexpensive ways he attracted new clients during his first year of business. As he shows, a big budget isn't needed to be successful.
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How Do I Start Being the Boss?
It's now time to transition from chummy employer to effective manager and boss. If you're stuck on how to do this without losing your employees, these 12 steps will help.
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Why You Should Have Control of Your Business Through Your Phone
Using your phone as a business tool to control all facets of your operations and communications plays an essential role in achieving the success needed to take your business to the next level.
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Internet: The New Marketing Ground
With the arrival of the Internet, the world has changed how it does business. From shopping to social networking, you name it, the “Net” has it. Right at your fingertips! So how can you also use this free of cost service to you advantage?
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3 Secrets to Staying Motivated with Your Small Business
Any small business owner has a significant amount of self motivation, but there are always times that a little extra encouragement is useful and even necessary. When that happens remember these tips to help you remain motivated in your work and living.
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A Guide to Self-Assessment Tax Returns for Small Businesses
The deadline date for submitting your tax return is creeping up – 31st January is just around the corner and many first time submitters may have been putting bringing together their company accounts and doing their return out of fear or ignorance of how it should be done. Fear not, filling out a self-assessment form couldn’t be simpler.
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What Does 2012 Have in Store for Small Businesses?
In his 2012 forecast, small business writer Steve Strauss, shares five trends you should keep in mind as you plan for your business this year.
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Giveaway: 7 Bad Business Habits to Break
To be successful in 2012, there are several bad habits small business owners must break. Tell us the habit you want to break for a chance to win.
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Customer Relationship Management for Small Businesses
Customer relationship management is very important for small businesses. There is some very good CRM software available that can help you to do this – but what exactly does CRM software help you to do?
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