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Key Considerations for Small Businesses: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

Personalized and targeted marketing attracts potential customers and nurtures lasting relationships. Develop a comprehensive budget covering startup costs and ongoing expenses. Embrace innovation to remain competitive and ensure adaptability in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

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4 Ways to Grow Your Business Organically

Strategy Driven

Making sure you pursue the recruitment of competent HR staff will improve your recruitment process, diversify your team to increase innovativeness, and reduce, if not eliminate, employee turnover. The staff is also responsible for training and developing talent as well as cultivating leaders. Does word-of-mouth marketing really work?

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Learn to Adjust Your Focus

Harvard Business Review

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). Abstract thinking is useful for early stages of innovation. But if you're stuck thinking about something in the wrong way, how can you switch gears? Consider personal distance.

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Why the Greek Yogurt Craze Should be a Wake-Up Call to Big Food

Harvard Business Review

Food fads develop quickly in today’s marketplace. Consumers are more tightly connected now and are more likely to follow word-of-mouth (or word-of-keystroke) advice than in the past. Branded food companies should invest more in innovation and less on brand marketing. Shorten your development cycle.