The Entrepreneur MBA podcast's purpose is to help existing business owners grow their companies past the $10 million in revenue mark. Hosted by Serial Entrepreneur Stephen Halasnik - Mark sits down with seasoned entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs, and business owners who have successfully exited their companies. They break down systems, processes, and how to's so you can also find 8+ Figure Success in your business!
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Building the Life of Your Dreams from Ease
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Building the life of your dreams from ease involves a deliberate and mindful approach to personal and professional development. By combining clarity of vision, realistic goal-setting, mindful planning, efficient work habits, a positive mindset, self-care, and a supportive network, you can create a life that aligns with your deepest aspirations. Emb…
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How To Live Life On Fire - Successful Life Full Of Peace, Joy And Fulfillment
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Living life on fire requires a dynamic and intentional pursuit of personal growth. To achieve this, it is important to embrace your passions, set clear goals, maintain a positive mindset, prioritize your well-being, build meaningful connections, embrace learning, live in the present moment, contribute to others, celebrate successes, and reflect on …
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Building Your Business Through B2B Cold Calls
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Nowadays, digital marketing, social media, and other forms of advanced communication systems are prevailing in lead generation. However, when done strategically, B2B cold calling remains a powerful tool in building and growing your business. By understanding your audience, crafting compelling scripts, and continuously refining your approach, you ca…
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How Post-Covid Has Changed Us as Business Leaders
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There's no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way businesses operate and has brought about a change in the role of leaders. It has shown the importance of being flexible, adaptable, and putting people first. As we move forward, we can learn from this challenging period and use those lessons to guide us in navigating the uncertainties o…
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Selling Your Business: Why This Starts the Day You Launch
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Selling your business should not be left to chance or addressed only when you are ready to retire. It is a process that starts the day you launch your business. When you approach entrepreneurship with the possibility of a future sale in mind, you create a more valuable and attractive asset for potential buyers. Whether you ultimately decide to sell…
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Sell Custom, Creative or Complex vs. "click here, buy now”
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While the "click here, buy now" approach may work effectively for certain products and services, it's important to acknowledge that not all offerings are suited for this type of sales strategy. For customized, creative, or complex products, a more personalized and consultative approach can lead to better outcomes. Such strategies create deeper conn…
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The Listening Leader: How to Build a Culture of Trust and Empowerment
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Becoming a listening leader and fostering a culture of trust and empowerment involves active listening skills, empathetic communication, and deliberate actions demonstrating your commitment to your team's well-being and growth. By consistently practicing these principles, you can create an organizational culture where trust and empowerment flourish…
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The Importance of Knowing Your Why In Life And Your Business
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Knowing your "why" is a transformative force in both life and business. It provides clarity, motivation, authenticity, and long-term fulfillment. It is the driving factor behind personal success and the key to building a thriving, purpose-driven business. So, take the time to reflect on your "why" and let it guide you towards a more meaningful and …
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Turning cybersecurity from cost to profit center
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In an era of constant cyber threats, organizations can no longer view cybersecurity solely as a cost center. Businesses can turn it into a profit center by adopting a proactive approach and leveraging cybersecurity as a strategic asset. Whether through customer trust, offering cybersecurity services, monetizing threat intelligence, engaging in cybe…
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Why Communication Is So Important in Small Business Brand Strategy
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In the world of small business, effective communication is not just a tool but a strategic imperative. It is the bridge that connects your brand to your audience, helping you build awareness, trust, and loyalty. A well-executed brand strategy, driven by thoughtful and consistent communication, can give small businesses the competitive advantage the…
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Why EVERY Business Owner NEEDS Passive Income
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Relying solely on your active income is no longer prudent or sustainable in today’s business terrain. The significance of proactively building passive income streams cannot be overstated. Passive income offers financial security and the flexibility and freedom to savor life on your own terms. And it provides peace of mind, diversification, and a re…
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Why and How a Company Culture is So Important.
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A strong company culture remains a constant pillar of success in a world where business strategies and technologies rapidly evolve. It influences not only employee satisfaction and performance but also a company's reputation and long-term viability. A positive company culture does not happen by chance; it requires intentional efforts, dedication, a…
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Is QuickBooks the Right Solution for Your Business?
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QuickBooks undoubtedly remains one of the leading accounting software options on the market. Its user-friendly interface, comprehensive feature set, and adaptability make it a strong contender for businesses aiming to streamline their financial operations. Remember, the "right" solution ultimately depends on how well it aligns with your business re…
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The business scaling challenges of 7 figure businesses
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Scaling a 7-figure business is an exciting journey filled with growth opportunities and potential. However, it also presents unique challenges that demand careful planning, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous improvement. By addressing operational efficiency, talent acquisition, financial management, market competition, marketing and sales…
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How to Optimize Your Processes and Get the Most Out of Technology
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Optimizing processes and leveraging technology go hand in hand in today's business landscape. By understanding existing workflows, setting clear objectives, involving your team, adopting user-friendly technology, embracing automation, and using data-driven insights, you can transform your operations and achieve remarkable efficiency and productivit…
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Business Owner Leadership Powered by Common Sense: Key Principles for Effective Leadership in Business
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Leadership in business is not just about complex strategies and theories; it's about applying common sense in a way that empowers individuals, strengthens the team, and drives the business toward long-term success while maintaining a harmonious work environment. With these key principles in mind, business owners can embark on a transformative journ…
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Building Businesses That Support Your lifestyle and Dreams
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Building a business that supports your lifestyle and dreams is an extraordinary accomplishment that every business owner desires. However, even successful entrepreneurs may encounter boredom or a lack of excitement along the way. By reflecting on your journey, setting new goals, delegating responsibilities, embracing continuous learning, innovating…
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Making Your Business More Valuable to Sell in the Future can Help Today with Ryan Urban.
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Enhancing the market value of your business for a potential future sale requires strategic planning and execution. To achieve this, you should leverage your competitive advantage, maintain accurate financial records, develop a strong management team, diversify and strength customer base and seek professional guidance. In today’s podcast, Ryan Urban…
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Courageous Leadership in Volatile Times: Key Leadership Traits to Drive
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Courageous leadership is essential in steering your business toward success in volatile times. Business leaders who are unshakable, resolved and resilient, confident, and more are better equipped to navigate uncertainty and inspire their teams to overcome challenges. In today's podcast, Tim Lupinacci from Baker Donelson and Stephen Halasnik from Fi…
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From Startup to a Billion Dollars in Sales: My Audacious and Unheard of Ways with Roy Osing
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Building a billion-dollar business requires strategic planning to chart a clear path, differentiation to stand out in the market, hiring passionate employees, creating a unique customer experience, and embracing uniqueness to disrupt and become a leader in your niche. In today's podcast, Roy Osing from Roy Osing Company and Stephen Halasnik from Fi…
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Leveraging PR for Small Business Results- Tools and Tactics with Brandi Sims
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Small companies can effectively harness the power of PR by developing a comprehensive PR strategy, building relationships with media professionals, crafting compelling stories, utilizing press release distribution platforms, engaging in content marketing, and monitoring media coverage. Consistency, persistence, and authenticity are vital to achievi…
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Small Business Branding - Finding Clarity, Being Strategic, Crafting Identity with Amanda Guerassio
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Small business branding fosters loyalty, differentiates your business from competitors, and attracts new customers. When well executed, it can contribute to the rapid growth of your company, ensuring long-term success and sustainability. In today’s podcast, Amanda Guerassio from Studio Guerassio and Stephen Halasnik discuss small business branding-…
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What Happens When You See Your Company Can't Scale? With Reza Farahani
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Scaling a business is an ambitious but rewarding journey. However, some factors can impede your scaling efforts and business growth. It’s paramount that you find out the constraining variable early and confront them head-on before taking the plunge to position your company for future growth and success. In today’s podcast, Reza Farahani from WFHomi…
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How CEOs Plan Their Day With The Daily RAP (Review & Action Plan), Featuring Amber De La Garza
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The Daily RAP is a structured framework that helps business owners streamline their workflow and maximize productivity. CEOs that plan their day with Review and Action Plan maintain focus, prioritize tasks effectively, and proactively attend to essential issues, ultimately driving their businesses' success. In today's podcast, Amber Garza from Prod…
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How to Scale Facebook Ads, Google, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat & others
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Social media advertising provides numerous benefits to small businesses, including precise targeting, cost-effectiveness, real-time performance tracking, and engaging with audiences through likes, comments, and shares. It has become critical to marketing campaigns, helping business owners increase brand awareness, drive website traffic, generate le…
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How Business Owners Can Be Better in Problem-Solving, Decision-Making, and Innovative Breakthroughs with Christie Turley
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Being an effective problem-solver, decision-maker, and driver of innovation is essential for small business owners who desire to thrive in today's dynamic and competitive business landscape. As a business owner, you can fine-tune your problem-solving, decision-making, and innovative breakthrough by cultivating a growth mindset, analyzing problems f…
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The DNA of Money In Your Business and Life with Daniel Mangena
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Understanding the DNA of money is a transformative journey that can shape our businesses and lives. By cultivating a positive money mindset, implementing sound financial practices, and embracing the power of money to make a positive impact, we can build a solid foundation for financial prosperity. Remember, money is not an end but a means to create…
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A Brand Like the Best - How to Look as Good as You ARE with Johanna White
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Creating a great brand takes time and effort, but it's worth it. A strong brand can help you stand out in a crowded market and build customer trust. By defining your brand, developing a consistent visual identity, being authentic, creating a brand voice, being consistent, investing in design, and staying true to your brand, you can create a brand t…
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Keys for Building a Profitable Company in Good and Bad Times with Lance Cayko
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Building a profitable company in good and bad times requires a combination of factors, including strategic planning, financial management, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. To succeed, a company must have a clear vision and mission, a solid understanding of its target market, and a flexible business model that can adapt to changing ma…
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Contract Considerations for Consultants and from Hourly to Project-Based Pricing
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When transitioning from hourly to project-based pricing as a consultant, it's essential to consider the terms and conditions of the contract carefully. This includes defining the scope of work, deliverables, timeline, payment structure, and any provisions for changes or termination of the agreement. Establishing clear communication and expectations…
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Why Franchising is So Popular With Entrepreneurs With Jon Ostenson
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Franchising offers entrepreneurs a proven business model, established brand, training and support, economies of scale, proven marketing strategies, faster expansion opportunities, reduced risk of failure, access to a network, brand recognition, and more. These factors make franchising an attractive option for entrepreneurs looking for a higher chan…
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How to Revolutionize the Way We Reward Good Talent with David Valentine
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To revolutionize how we reward good talent, we must focus on providing employees with meaningful work, autonomy, and recognition. We also need to create a culture of transparency and accountability, where employees feel like they are part of a team and their contributions are valued. In todays’ podcast, David Valentine from Avadel Agency and Stephe…
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The Secret to Attracting Right-Fit Clients & Boosting Your Revenue with Patty Block
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The success of every business of all sizes hinges solely on its level of customer acquisition and retention. Successful companies have mastered the secret to attracting and retaining their customers. Attracting the right-fit clients and boosting your revenue requires defining your ideal client, crafting a compelling message, choosing the proper mar…
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Sales Strategies to Get More Clients & Boost Profits with Lynn Whitbeck
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Sales strategies are critical for the success of small businesses as they enable them to effectively reach and persuade potential customers to buy their products or services. By developing a clear sales strategy, small businesses can identify their target audience, tailor their messaging, and prioritize their sales efforts. Effective sales strategi…
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Real-Life Experiences of Acquiring Customers Through Social Media with Hemant Varshney
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Social media has become a veritable tool for small business owners to reach their target audiences. It can also be valuable for acquiring customers, as businesses can target specific audiences based on demographics, interests, and behaviors. Social media analytics can provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of social media campaigns, allow…
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How Self Afformations Can Help Business Owners and Their Teams with Noah St. John
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Self-affirmations are well known to be a powerful tool that can help business owners and their teams improve their performance, productivity, and overall well-being. However, Noah St. John has coined the phrase Afformations. Afformations are positive and empowering questions you ask yourself to change your beliefs and focus on what is right about y…
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Running a Business When The Owner Passes Away: A True Story with Mike Kaeding
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Running a business when the owner dies can be challenging and stressful for those left behind. The sudden absence of the owner can create uncertainty and confusion, and it is crucial to have a plan in place to ensure the company’s continuity. Adequate planning, prudent financial management, hiring the right team, branding, and marketing strategies …
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Taking Control of Your Relationship with the IRS with Joe Mastriano
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As a small business owner, taking control of your relationship with the IRS is essential to avoid potential issues and maintain a healthy financial status. And you can achieve this by keeping accurate records, filing and paying taxes on time, understanding tax laws and regulations, seeking professional help when needed, and addressing any issues pr…
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Speed Reading Skills for Busy Entrepreneurs with Abby Marks Beale
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For entrepreneurs, speed is of the essence whether you're reading a financial report, software manual, business magazine, legal document, and more. Hence, you must enhance your speed reading skills to get through tons of important information that comes your way now and then quickly, even as you juggle other responsibilities in your life and busine…
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Small Business Marketing: How to Stand Out Online and Off With Rich Brooks
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Digital and offline marketing are essential for businesses of all sizes to connect with their target customers and stand out in a crowded market. While both approaches have unique benefits and drawbacks, they can also be used together to create a more powerful and effective marketing campaign. However, to be successful in both marketing efforts, yo…
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How To Make Your Business Stand Out with Rick Elmore
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In today's highly competitive small business world, making your company stand out from the pack has become more important than ever if you want to reach your business goals. However, to differentiate your company from other businesses operating in your niche, you must go the extra mile to provide superior value to your customers. In today's podcast…
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The Landmines Once You Passed the Business Startup Phase with Chris Joyce
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Building your business to reach the 10 million dollar benchmark can be very tricky, especially when you don’t have the needed experience. To succeed in your business, you should be aware of the landmines that could trip you up and avoid making critical mistakes that might make your company fail. In today’s podcast, Chris Joyce from Gusher and Steph…
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Building and Growing a Successful Business with Your Life Partner with Elma & Dov Levy
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Forming a thriving partnership can be challenging when one is running a business with a spouse or life partner. There are many ups and downs in both a business and a romantic relationship. And if you’re unable to manage them effectively, it might affect your company and marriage. In today’s podcast, Elma & Dov Levy from The Eldov Group LLC and Step…
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Measurable Marketing: The Key To Business Growth with Howard Wolpoff
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Irrespective of the size of your company, marketing and promotion are ultimately important in driving its growth. However, not every marketing effort will affect your small business's bottom line. Therefore, to have a successful marketing campaign, you must factor in measurable marketing by following the SMART methodology. In today’s podcast, Howar…
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Opening Doors and Profit For Your Business by Being an Author with Vince Warnock
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Publishing a book in your industry is a great way of building credibility and expanding your business reach. Although there might not be money in the book sales, however, the true value of the book is that it will position you as an authority in your business niche, leading to increased sales of services or products. As a small business marketing t…
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The Value of Small Businesses Building a Trusting Brand With Scott Baradell.
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The advent of digital technology has intensified competition in the business world today. And as a small business owner that wants to stand out from the crowd, you must go the extra mile to project your business to the public domain and gain the trust of your customers. However, to do this successfully, you should invest in creating a strong and tr…
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How and When to Pivot Your Business With Dennis Kelly
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Pivoting is a key strategy in business, but unfortunately, many small business owners tend to wait too long to implement it. Pivoting your business allows you to explore new markets, products, or services that will enable you to expand your revenue or to even help your business survive. In today's podcast, Dennis Kelly from Postalytics and Stephen …
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Top 5 Business Marketing Strategies For Small Businesses under $5 million in Revenue with Ken C
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Today's business world is incredibly competitive, and small business owners who desire to grow and sustainably remain competitive must invest time and resources in their marketing efforts to reach the $ 5 million revenue benchmark. Effective small business marketing demands that you put in place systems, processes, and procedures to achieve your ma…
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Lessons Learned As a "Reluctant Entrepreneur" With Mike Konrad
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Starting and running a successful business can be challenging, especially when one lacks the requisite skills. However, smart entrepreneurs always strive to learn what it takes to build a thriving and sustainable company. Building a robust business entails dedication, hard work, planning, and more. As a business owner, you must consistently put eff…
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The Keys To Effectively Building Business Processes, Policies & Procedures
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Building a successful business is not all about rolling your sleeve, putting your nose to the grindstone, and getting things done by any means. Although this scrappy means can help get your business off the ground, it cannot lead to sustainable growth and development. Hence, you must have a system in place on which to run your small business. Compa…
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