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The Best Tools for Starting a Small Business

Strategy Driven

Starting a small business is an exciting venture that comes with immense satisfaction and, of course, tons of challenges. It’s about transforming your vision into reality, introducing your unique offering to the market, and turning an idea into a lucrative operation.

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Managing With a Conscience

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Emphasizes that personal networking is an efficient and effective way to solicit ideas, access new sources of information, increase business development, and attract new hires. Asking the right questions helps to take you beyond mere compliance. Maintains a flexible structure by collaborating both internally and externally.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Development of core business supplier relationships. Running the business. Business development.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

Do global business but act local. Conducting global business requires businesses to act like a local. Customs, traditions, and legal compliance vary across geographies. Industry Principle (Product & Business Development). He was a member of the EMEA Manufacturing Industries Business Group.

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Are They Contractors or Staff?

Women on Business

One of the more complicated tasks for a business owner is being able to correctly classify the people working for you. As a larger operation, it gets a bit tougher. operates their own business. As a one man shop. it it’s fairly easy, when you pull someone in it is a temporary arrangement. Independent Contractors.

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“No idea” Means I Have One :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

I think showing love is something that will really come back to you in the end, even in the business world. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. Interesting thoughts. Thanks for posting.