Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I had a background in marketing and brand management, and working with concepts and ideas was my passion. But I wasn’t as keen on the business side of things – finances, bookkeeping, and other nitty-gritty that keeps a business flowing smoothly. Later, we were catching up over the phone and I told him about my business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2021

Indeed, some companies will continue to make a loss all the way through the first year on the market. If you make the right moves with your company, then you can guarantee that your business hits profitability far more rapidly compared to other companies on the market. SEO is the bread and butter of any business marketing campaign.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2021

While naming your business and creating a logo is important, ever wondered how determining your business structure or crafting a detailed marketing strategy might affect your business? If you’re thinking of starting your own small business, you’re likely to have an idea of what you wish to sell or at least what your target market is.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

It’s not even enough just to know everything about cars and their features; you also need to have a sound understanding of business finances, licensing and legal requirements in terms of permits and taxes. Franchises often require a larger investment upfront to purchase the franchise rights and will be a bigger operation in general.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2021

Things it could work for include IT, accounting, social media management and website development. There are many different funding and fleet management options that you could consider, and fleet finance can often be a great choice to consider. Place a focus on your marketing.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Apart from conducting detailed market research, finding out fair clientele, performing surveys, retaining target groups, exploring SEO, and researching public data, which are obviously important factors, one must also remain very adaptable to changing situations. What will be the market where you want to get into?

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. Nabob Coffee’s market share accelerated to 25% and national leadership as arch rival Maxwell House worked to catch up.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. Networking and marketing are vital parts of building a business, so make sure you have a plan to tackle both. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

But despite this outpouring of expertise, many organizations still find marketing in the social era ridiculously hard to do well, if at all. Perhaps marketing in the social era is that kind of problem. The funnel is a favorite of marketers because it is linear, uni-directional, and transaction-centric.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you were offered the opportunity to finance a high risk , low return investment, how eager would you be to write a check? It's time to bring a proven business model to the social enterprise space: the franchise. Franchising has a special place in our economic system. It's not sexy, but it's effective.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

From here, then you will need to contemplate whether or not you would prefer to start a business from scratch or own a franchise. This is particularly important if you are planning on running a franchise, as your responsibilities will be mainly management and administration-based instead of dealing with the public.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

A number of years ago, my family company won the Greek franchise of a leading US confectionary manufacturer. A key takeaway from the video was that the company’s products were not only good to eat, but that from composition to packing materials they were also the most environmentally sensitive sweets in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

By thinking of a company’s culture as a form of investment subject to market failures, we can better understand why companies sometimes tolerate misconduct, and why they can’t always fix it on their own. Market Failures and Misconduct Risk. The justification for this attention comes from relatively simple economics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly. Yet those resources don't exist in the social enterprise market—even though the need is essentially the same.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

But for every Habitat for Humanity , Mothers Against Drunk Driving , and Teach for America that has managed to scale, there are thousands that have stagnated or failed. It has figured out how to keep growing a staff of great "coaches" to supervise and manage recess in schools all over the USA. Stimulating Market Forces.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

She'd mentioned her business, Calidad de Vida, a group of day care centers for the elderly, and he'd peppered her with questions, explaining that he was interested not only as a doctor (he was the leading cardiothoracic surgeon at Madrid's best hospital) but also as a potential investor (he'd unloaded his stocks just before the market collapsed).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out? And have you heard that we have more mobile phones than any other continent besides Asia?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Nor did we realize the amount of management time it would require for us to raise this capital as a non-profit organization; precious time that would be taken away from building the product and the infrastructure needed to deliver the product, and to make impact at the scale we had envisioned.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Add to that the problem of intra-European financial markets with "national" regulatory institutions and the lack of a Europe-wide deposit insurance scheme or common debt instrument, and one can start to understand why the euro zone is going through an existential crisis with still no real end in sight.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

These facts raise some profound questions about personnel management of a great power. Now we're over 300 million. No one could credibly argue that our political leadership is anywhere near the same class as the Founders' era. link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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