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Just How Flexible Should You Be?

I went on a guided tour at a popular amusement park during my trip. We paid a healthy sum for this special tour, and after reading what was included during the tour- it easily sealed the deal.
Great! I thought this was fabulous; it matched what our agenda was and would save us oodles of time.
What [...]

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Creative Display or Busy Clutter?

There’s a small boutique I go to sometimes, and one of the things I noticed is that they’ve been following the trend a lot of small places follow. There’s limited space, so they try to find ways to display as much as they can in tight spaces. When you go to pay for something, you [...]

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Are You Bored With Your Business?

Your business is making money…check.
Your business could almost run itself…check.
Your business works…check.
You feel passionate and excited about your business….NO!
Are you bored with your business? Maybe it’s time to shake things up. If you’ve found that your passion is gone, you may be overlooking ways to bring that fire back. Have you considered new markets? If [...]

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Parking Lot Troubles

Quick, take a look at your parking lot…I’ll wait.
What did you see? Did you see liability issues, did you see a mess, did it represent how sharp and clean your business is?
Our local grocery store had huge holes in the parking lot. I’m not talking cracks, I’m talking 2×3 foot potholes. I’m talking chunks of [...]

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Crumbling Blocks Will Fall

I’ve been on vacation, and while we were out and about, we visited a restaurant we’ve been going to in this local town. We were greeted with a less than enthusiastic waiter, and it set the mood for our short stay.
That first moment set a mood…that very simple and first greeting. Maybe it would improve, [...]

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Let’s Talk Growth

One of the things about owning your own business is the opportunity to expand, and create growth. If a business stays stagnant, or the same, in essence, you end up working a “job” for yourself. Did you create a job for yourself, or are you running a business?
Where will your business be in 3 years, [...]

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Gas Prices and Delivery

We’re feeling the crunch of rising fuel prices in retail outlets, as well as the grocery store. Delivering those items are getting even costlier with gas and diesel prices sky rocketing.
What about the small business that delivers local? Maybe you deliver flowers, pizza, linens or other goods. How are you coping with rising fuel costs? [...]

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Embed Documents Easily

Have you heard of DocStoc (www.docstoc.com)? It’s a great website that will allow you to not only find and share documents, but also embed them into your site.
Take for instance, this blog which is about small business. I was able to find a document called “10 Questions to Consider When Starting a New Business”. It’s [...]

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Hey! Is That Mickey Mouse?

Look, up in the sky, it’s…it’s….is that Mickey Mouse?
If you’re in Walt Disney World, you may happen to catch a glimpse of cloud shaped Mickey Mouse heads. In fact, pretty soon, you may start seeing other corporate logos in the sky, in cloud shaped forms.
In an interesting story, Francisco Guerra has created a way to [...]

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What Can You Offer ME?

That’s what people want to know. They don’t care about the fancy new equipment you have, they don’t care that you’ve been in business for 80 years, and they don’t care if it’s your birthday next week.
It’s a simple lesson. People want to know how your business will benefit THEM.
Listing your great features is all [...]

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