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Protect Your Home-Based Business
Just because you manage your company from your family room doesn't mean you should approach it too casually. You still need to consider the health and well-being of any employees, subcontractors...
Milking the Business
If you have worked for a corporation for a few years before you start your own venture, you need to really prepare for the first time of not having a paycheck every two weeks. While you hear stories about all the personal things that your business can pay for...
The Heart of Customer Service is Respect
Excellence comes out of respect, which is at the heart of customer service. It starts with internal service; treating the employees with the same respect and attitude as you would want the customer treated.
Featured Articles
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For Online Sellers: What Sells in the Summer Time?
Written by Outright
A question I get every year about this time is, "What sells in the summer time?" While there is no definitive answer to that question, you can be assured people don't stop buying stuff online; they just buy different stuff than at other times of year. -
Make a Big Impact Habit for Long Term Success
Written by Deb Bixler
A small effort on a consistent basis will make a bigger impact on your life or your business than a big habit made intermittently. A big impact habit is a habit that is so small that you can do it forever. -
Understanding Alternatives to Typical Credit Card Merchants
Written by Valerie Wilson
Most of us have heard of eBay's PayPal, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Consider the trajectory of the corded phone attached to the wall to Bluetooth technology. The way we take credit cards online is traveling through the same kind of historical shift in a comparable… -
How to Protect Your Business Idea
Written by Buffie Edick
Your ideas can be as valuable to you as your physical property and protecting them should be something every business owner, inventor, or entrepreneur takes into consideration. Before you pitch your idea, there are some things to keep in mind about protecting your creativity. -
Low Cost ATM Franchise Business
Written by Amy Schumer
At the present time, many home based franchise business opportunities are available for you! The newest is the low cost ATM franchise business. -
The Customer Service Training Success Equation
Written by Teresa Allen
When you invest in customer service training, you naturally want results. The sad truth is that many times there are no lasting results from business training programs. Sometimes this can be the fault of a poor instructor or materials, but more often it is a result of how training fits… -
Happiness Is a Choice
Written by Mike Maddock
Many of us get the happiness equation wrong. We believe that we must work hard to become successful, make lots of money, get a big title and then, only then, will we be happy. It simply isn't true.
Featured Authors
Fran Tarkenton
NFL Hall of Famer, and the founder of Tarkenton Companies
Death by Growth - How to Manage and Avoid Cash Flow Problems
Every small business owner is looking for opportunities to grow. People are struggling with the question, “How do I grow?” And in a competitive culture, we often assume that growth is an intrinsically good thing—the more growth, the faster it happens, the better! Read more
Linda Dawson
Owner of My Virtual Account Office
Using Quickbooks for Property Management
Running a property management business is no easy task. The good news is that Quickbooks makes accounting for property management businesses fast and painless. To learn more about how you can use Quickbooks to account for all of your property management transactions, keep reading.
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Jania Bailey
President/COO of FranNet
Top 8 Franchising Do's and Don'ts
People love lists. In keeping with this theme, FranNet is proud to bring you, the reader, the "Top-8 Franchising Do's & Don'ts."
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Mike Maddock
Serial Entrepreneur, Author and Keynote Speaker
Happiness Is a Choice
Many of us get the happiness equation wrong. We believe that we must work hard to become successful, make lots of money, get a big title and then, only then, will we be happy. It simply isn't true.
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How to Re-Build a Successful Team the Second Time Around
Written by Nellie Akalp
For the serial entrepreneur, it's hard to know whether to bring back the same team or start fresh for your second or third company. If you're building a team the second or third time around, here are some questions to ask before you start calling the original team back to… -
Information is Even More Critical
Written by Jerry Osteryoung
To deal with a constantly evolving environment, communication—both incoming and outgoing—is more important than ever. You need to be sure you are communicating to your customers and are taking in new information about the economy and your industry, all at breakneck speeds. -
Savvy Entrepreneurs Look for More Than Funding
Written by Marty Zwilling
Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. Don't waste your resources on the wrong ones. -
Essential Elements When Framing Organizational Change
Written by Bill Hogg
A critical element of initiating a successful change initiative is communicating that change is a normal and positive function of doing business—it is a key factor in a company's ability to remain relevant and differentiate from competitors and grow year over year. -
National Small Business Week Begins
Written by SmallBizClub.com
Today marks the beginning of National Small Business Week, and in events across the country the US Small Business Administration will be spotlighting the work of America's great entrepreneurs and small business owners. -
Insights from a Successful Solopreneur
Written by Debarati Mukherjee
This post is going to talk about the journey of a solopreneur, Bjorn Forsberg, who successfully launched a Shopify product, OrderlyPrint, while continuing his day job. There are some interesting lessons from his journey that contradict a lot of what you read about entrepreneurship. -
The 3 Best Ways to Manage Change on LinkedIn
Written by JD Gershbein
LinkedIn is by no means a static social networking site. It changes, seemingly on the hour, presenting users with new challenges in navigation, negotiation and real world application. Social business moves a light-year per second.
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Domain Registry vs. Domain Hosting
A domain name is a website address on the Internet. You can own a domain name without having a website to be hosted. Domain Registration is the process of acquiring a domain name from a domain name registrar. Read more...
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Big Lessons for Small Businesses
There are a lot of differences between big and small businesses—but there are also a lot of times when the same thing is true for both. Brent Saunders is the CEO of Bausch & Lomb, a 159 year-old company, but in recent interviews he has shared some invaluable insights that are just as important for small business entrepreneurs as they are for Fortune 500s—if not more! Read more...
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Low Cost ATM Franchise Business
At the present time, many home based franchise business opportunities are available for you! The newest is the low cost ATM franchise business.
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Day to Day Management
Day to day management at Corporate Services Management is heavily dependent on the company’s site managers. Each contract and client... Read more
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On Our Bookshelf
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past.
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The Fran Tarkenton Show
We asked questions that nobody ever asked because we were outsiders. - Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan are the cofounders of Barefoot Winery and authors of the book “The Barefoot Spirit.” They took their brand of Barefoot Wines from starting in their laundry room in 1986 to an iconic award winner that transformed the entire industry. Read more...
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