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Top Five Affordable Public Relations Resources You Can’t Live Without
It’s an ongoing struggle when working on a PR campaign for your business to identify the right tools to use that are low-cost or free. Nowadays, public relations is the go-to growth…
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6 Real Reasons Why Your Business Isn’t Reaching Its Full Potential
Own a business long enough and you’ll develop an acute form of blindness — a myopic mindset that doesn’t stop you from envisioning your goals, but does render you incapable of recognizing…
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Making Crowdsourcing & Online Reviews Integral to Small Business Success
The most common issues facing owners of small to medium size businesses can be distilled to these three concerns: how to increase brand awareness, how to secure legitimacy and how to generate…
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Q & A Will Shields
Will, you were enshrined into the football Hall of Fame with the Class of 2015. And, you never missed a game in your entire 14-year career as a guard for the Kansas…
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7 Things Business Owners Need to Get Right With an Exit Strategy
For business owners, acknowledging that they will have to leave their companies at some point is usually one of the hardest issues they’ll wrestle with. All owners will exit their businesses at…
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How Software Audits Are Significantly Impacting the Bottom Line
Many software publishers have discovered that auditing their customers can result in increased revenue. Publishers initiated hundreds of audits in 2013, and many unsuspecting audit targets learned that audit resolutions can be…
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Five Ogres and an Angel
Guarding the Gates of Organizational Improvement With so many change agents, change initiatives, and transformational changes, swarming the marketplace, clearly a lot is changing in business—or is it? In actuality, what makes…
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Stirring a Business That Cooks
Julia Child’s The French Chef was one of the most popular television shows of the 60s and early 70s. Newly married and an aspiring cook, Carole Kotkin found herself mesmerized by Child’s…
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Commercial Real Estate
Looks At Space in New Ways The new economy tenants understand this and look at space in an entirely different fashion. They want space that reflects their culture, their ethos, and their…
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How to Promote Company Culture Through Your Workspace
A company’s rich culture can often be hidden in a sad workspace. Sure, you might have a casual dress code and a spirited softball team, but no one will think much of…
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A Third Generation Approach to Sustainable Farming
Growing up on the same New Hampshire farm that my great-grandfather worked a hundred years ago gave me an appreciation for family farming that has stayed with me. I learned to raise…
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Dominos CEO J. Patrick Doyle
A Passion for Pizza and People Tell us about your career with Domino’s, when it began and when you took over as CEO. I’ve been here seventeen years. I joined in 1997…
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5 Ways to Realize Server Room Profitability
Responsible for storing and distributing data among employees and customers alike, servers are the backbone of just about every modern business. Of course, this type of mission critical power comes at a…
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Proactive and Collaborative Planning for Event Safety
With so many headlines noting dangerous or even deadly events, safety is on the minds of many no matter where they go—and that includes both public and private events. That means meeting…
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Mastering The Art of Healthy Business Relationships
10 Don’ts that Destroy Life-Changing Connections at Work Let’s face it, business relationships can be tough and some even adversely impact careers and the bottom line. Although relationships are a fundamental aspect…
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Sales Lessons From the Big Screen
The movie The Jone$es (with Lauren Hutton, Demi Moore, and David Duchovny), features a three-minute scene that should be required viewing for anyone aspiring to or currently managing salespeople. Sales executive KC…
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Skillman Construction – Business of the Year
Growing up in Kansas in a community of farmers, Mike Skillman would have described himself as an average guy. The one thing that he had going for himself was a well-developed worth…
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Preventing Burnout for New Entrepreneurs
Burnout is all too common for entrepreneurs. As a business coach, I see it happen most often with new entrepreneurs. They are trying to put it all together and make it all…
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Dave Says…
Dear Dave, I have an opportunity to buy a small business. What should I look for and what things should I check on before I make my decision? Al Dear Al, The…
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Adopting Social Good as a Core Business Practice
Contributing to the social good is increasingly important for many corporations as management and staff express desires to be good community citizens. Some of these companies are setting up giving that is…
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Telltale Signs of Adult ADHD
With high profile celebrities like NBC’s ‘The Voice’ judge Adam Levine, TV news broadcasters like Phoenix-based Kaley O’Kelley, and others like “The ADHD CEO” Greg Selkoe now publicly owning their ADHD diagnosis,…
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Bankable Leadership:
Delivering Happy People and Bottom-Line Results Why won’t my employees just do what I tell them? Why am I struggling to motivate my team? Why aren’t they giving me the performance I…
