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11 Tips to be a Better Public Speaker
Public speaking is one of the most common phobias, often accompanied by dread and worry. You know the feeling: your heart pounds, your hands shake, your mouth dries up and you feel…
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The Buy/Sell Agreement: Your Business Will
Most people who have personal assets such as a house, bank account(s), 401(k), CD’s, Stocks, Bonds, cash savings etc. typically have drafted, and keep updated, an Estate Plan with its related components.…
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Rut Resolution: 8 Great Ways to Foil Small Business Stagnation to Accelerate Growth
A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed nearly half of all small businesses fail within the first four years of their existence. While there are many proven causes, including owner incompetence,…
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5 Reasons Leaders Should Sleep More
In January 1986, just seconds after launch, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing everyone on board instantly. According to research in 1988, select managers directly involved in the launch arrived at 1…
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Why It’s Good Business To Embrace Video In Digital-Marketing Campaigns
Businesses that want potential customers to linger longer on their websites have an easy tool for making that happen – video. It turns out, giving website visitors text to read or photos…
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How to Develop a Good IT Strategy
How to develop an IT strategy that supports business: milestones, steps and pitfalls.
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The Business Myth
According to Entrepreneur.com, the rate at which small businesses fail has declined by 30 percent over the last 4 decades. Unfortunately, many small businesses continue to crash and burn, with an average…
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The 5 Biggest Teamwork Ills
Twisting your features into a mask of pain, you dig your heels into the soft grass. A rope tears into your palms. A clear, tiny voice speaks to you amid the many…
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Is Ignorance Ruining Your Retirement?
Americans are part of an amazing yet curious phenomenon: most are extremely well-educated in their professions and careers, yet are quite uneducated when it comes to the purpose behind their jobs –…
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Make Your Passion Part of Your Personal Branding Effort
Recently, I was chatting with a new public relations client, and hearing his remarkable story reminded me of how we often separate our professional branding efforts from our true passions. And that…
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An Evening with Cap Juluca Chef Juan Bochenski
On Wednesday nights on the island of Anguilla, Cap Juluca Resort guests turn their backs on the Caribbean Sea. That’s because all eyes are transfixed behind the bar at Cap Juluca’s Spice…
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Top 5 Social Media Strategies
Generating brand exposure and engaging current and potential customers are essential for any business. Social media can be a great way to extend your company’s key messages and presence online. Don’t know…
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The Great Shift of Consumer Behavior Has Derived from Digital Marketing
Moore’s Law, which states that computer processing speed doubles every two years, has evolved into a technological arms race where technology as a whole is doubling every two years. The untethered existence…
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Why Health Care Costs Could Be Your Retirement’s Achilles’ Heel
Taking Potential Medical Expenses Into Account Is Important When Preparing For Retirement, Says Financial Planner A majority of affluent older Americans who are nearing retirement share the same concern – that health…
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4 Overlooked Ways to Cultivate Company Growth
Entrepreneur and Small Business Expert Sean Rudner Offers Unique and Honest Advice on How to Successfully Grow Your Business Once the dust settles after a successful company launch, one common question comes…
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5 Reasons Predictive Analytics Make or Break a Modern Marketing Engine
For a sales-driven organization, it isn’t the size of your data that matters, it’s what you do with it. No longer a discretionary luxury, predictive analytics are now the name of the…
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Myth Busting the Financial Planning ‘Rules of Thumb’
We hear a lot about financial planning “rules of thumb,” such as the 4-percent withdrawal rule, the 80 percent of pre-retirement income rule, the rule of 100 and many others. It’s important…
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What’s Missing In The Millennial Skillset
One thing is clear: millennials – those born after 1980 – are the world’s future, and they’ve already made significant contributions. Social media alone wouldn’t be what it is today without millennial…
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The Work-life Balancing Act
As a small-business owner, trying to maintain a work-life balance can be like walking on a tightrope. At any given moment you have to lean one way or the other to maintain…
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Maintain the Limited Liability Shield
Entrepreneurs should form a business entity as soon as they embark on a new startup venture. A key feature of business entities (e.g., corporations or limited liability companies) is limited liability, meaning…
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4 Key Ingredients to Family Business Success
The Right Planning Can Limit Discord When Personal and Professional Roles Mix At the office, Alex Sutherland calls his boss by his first name, Ken. After business hours, he calls him “Dad.”…
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Is Your Business Card a Bonus or a Bust?
I love business cards. Each one that I’ve designed or collaborated with a business partner to create has been my very favorite. There’s excitement at the initial stage of development when you…
