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The Best Tools for Starting a Small Business

Strategy Driven

It’s about transforming your vision into reality, introducing your unique offering to the market, and turning an idea into a lucrative operation. Framing Your Idea and Market Research An idea is the critical first step toward starting a small business.

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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy).

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Slow Decline of Eastman Kodak due to an Inability to Reinvent

Coaching Tip

Kodak leadership missed a number of innovative opportunities in the past. In the late 1950s, Kodak owned the paper copy business using a photo sensitive paper and monobath solution to create an extra copy of a document. Develop Leadership Skills: A Reference Guide. 01 for each copy made on the machine.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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Five Great Ways to Earn Extra Money in 2010 :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Offer your services for website design , IT Consulting , or Internet Marketing. Market your service to small businesses, and people with home offices. Everybody uses a computer, but few know much about it.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.