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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As the year winds down, you may be thinking of things other than selling. Holiday parties come to mind. Some of you might be dreading them, while some of you are anticipating the fun of enjoying free food and liquor. Whether you are excited or not, you had better pay attention to what happens at a
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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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By Ashish Arora Whether you’re standing on a stage in front of hundreds of people, in a boardroom pitching your business idea to investors, or on the phone trying to sell your product to warm leads, how you present yourself can be the difference whether you close a sale or bring in investment money. Powerful
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