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How to Grow Your Ecommerce Startup in Year One

Strategy Driven

Mailing lists are incredibly important for your data collection, and to offer deals and discounts seasonally, so they’re also best set up in your first year in business. The only physical part of your ecommerce business is delivering parcels to customers. Deliveries.

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# He doesn’t ask, he just does. A burned out leader is useless.

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Made a Mistake? Here’s How to Apologize in an Email Professionally

HR Digest

If there are ways to make amends for the problem, such as offering a customer a discount or adding that the next round of edits on a project will be made for free, make that clear to the receiver as well. In addition to rectifying the billing issue, we will be providing a [discount/compensation] on your next invoice as a gesture of goodwill.

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Book Review of “Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era”

The Practical Leader

The two companies in the “highest” category were United Parcel Service and Walt Disney. About 25 companies were rated “high.” ” Some of these included IBM, FedEx, Dell, Procter and Gamble, Best Buy, and 3M.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

If insurers offer a discount for climate-proofing homes, homeowners will likewise have an incentive to make that investment. But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment. When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists.