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What Does Work-Life Balance Mean for Small Business Owners?

For many small business owners, their business is a 24/7 passion. Yet in a recent GetResponse survey, more than half (51.5%) of small and midsized business (SMB) owners say they left their 9-to-5 jobs and started a business in order to enjoy better work-life balance. How’s that going for them? Here’s what the survey found. […]

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Want to Grow Your Business? Invest in Growing Your Employees First

By Gregory Eisen The following quotes are my favorites to articulate the importance of learning and personal growth: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”—Nelson Mandela “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”— John F. Kennedy “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if

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How to Make Positive Changes to Your Sales Process This Year

Yum! Are you eating cookies again after you swore them off on New Year’s Eve? Probably. New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, so why not focus instead on what you can actually do this year instead of making resolutions that are likely to be broken? No more excuses Excuses. I’ve heard them all.

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Work-Life Balance Is Impossible—Here’s What to Strive for Instead

As a businesswoman, entrepreneur, and mom, I’m here to tell you something that may come as a shock: I can’t find a work-life balance—because it doesn’t exist. If you’re like other busy moms, in moments of desperation you may have googled “work-family balance,” “how to prioritize,” or “advice for working women wanting it all.” There

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14 Overused Business Phrases We Must Retire (And Better Ways to Communicate)

By Rachel Fausnaught There are over 470,000 entries in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, with scores added every year. Yet in business, we tend to overuse the comfortable phrases we’ve become accustomed to, thinking we sound smart. News flash: We don’t actually sound smart. I’m guilty of it. You’re guilty of it. Your clients are guilty of

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6 Easy Ways to Maximize Your Time at a Trade Show

Trade shows offer the perfect venue for meeting new customers, networking with industry peers, and making new contacts who can help your company grow. But there’s usually a lot of hustle and bustle going on at a show, so it’s important that you have a strategy in place to ensure you make the most of

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Debunking 5 Time-Management Myths Hurting Your Productivity

We’re living in a distracted, over-connected world, and it’s killing our productivity, but not for the reasons you might think. To get a handle on the overload of information coming our way, many of us have turned to time-management techniques. However, while this advice may be well intentioned, it actually can be more of a

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6 Ways for Small Business Owners to Relax Over the Holidays

Ask almost any small business owner about their plans for the holiday season, and there’s about a fifty percent chance they will laugh in your face. December is a notoriously stressful time for business owners, as the combination of wrapping up the end of year finances and projects, creating projections for the year ahead, and

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