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Is there a strategy to communication?

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You have to know your long term goals. Small businesses are notorious for not thinking past our short term goals, the problem with this thinking is that we miss opportunities to grow and increase our revenue because we don’t know where we are headed.

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Worried About Keeping the Doors Open? Not for long!

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But what I have learned is that the short-term month to month thinking doesn’t help your company grow and it almost certainly will mean the death of it. Strategic planning is a long-term relationship. There are some who say strategy is only a necessity if you don’t know your end goal and to that I would say, run don’t walk away.

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Companies for Social Good

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Putting parks in communities means children can exercise, reducing childhood obesity and long term health issues of an adult working population. They were doing this as a best practice long before terms like “social good” and “sustainability” became catch phrases. According to the study the company saved $12.1

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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

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My plan was to make a career transition and I had accepted the fact that I’d probably have to take a short term pay cut from my pharmaceutical sales job to transition into marketing with a higher long term salary potential. Either way, make the timeframe sound like it has been on your terms. About the Author.

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Raising Capital Through Angel Investors

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All three are involved in angel groups and if your goal is raising capital you do not want to spend three months speaking to a CPA that never invests in companies but is there to pick up new clients. Understand that you may need to be flexible on some of the terms. Once you have determined which route to take go forward quickly.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

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For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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The Deficit Dilemma

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In order to meet the deficit reduction goal in the next decade, the President intends to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire after 2012 for families who make $250,000 or more, and to bring the estate exemption and estate tax to 2009 levels (back to a $3.5 trillion by 2021, the President got no love from Congress.

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