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Step 30 to Build a Better Business – Plan Your Next Steps

Step 30 to Build a Better Business – Plan Your Next Steps

Congratulations! You’ve made it all the way to step 30 of 30 Steps to Build a Better Business. The last thing that you need to do at the end of any action you’ve taken to improve your business, is to plan what you’re going to do next. Maybe you’ve gotten the basics in order and [...]

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Step 29 to Build a Better Business – Get Some Free Press

Step 29 to Build a Better Business – Get Some Free Press

Advertising and marketing are the most common methods for getting your business noticed by the public. But they require your own effort and money, and the person receiving them is aware that you are the one telling them how great your business is. In this step to Building a Better Business, we’ll briefly discuss some [...]

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Step 28 to Build a Better Business – The Secret is… Coordinate

Today’s step to Building a Better Business is a lesson straight from the 90′s comedy-movie classic, Boomerang. Take a look at the good advice John Witherspoon has to offer Eddie Murphy in this scene from the flick:   Coordinating is the key to more than impressing others with your, um… fashion sense, it’s also the secret to [...]

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Step 27 to Build a Better Business – Build and Monitor Your Business Credit

I’m not a big proponent of incurring a lot of debt to fund or build your business. But even if you’re a small business owner that is completely committed to bootstrap-financing your venture, there will come a time when you’ll need more cash than you currently have to continue growing your business, or you won’t want to [...]

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Step 26 to Build a Better Business – Take Your Spouse to Work

Whenever I got out of town on a long trip, and especially if I’m going out of the country, I make sure  that before I leave, I’ve given some vital information to people I can depend on in case of any emergency. As a small business owner, you should have a similar contingency plan in place [...]

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