Articles from February 2017

Exit strategy: First steps to selling your business & planning your future

Every small business owner should have an exit strategy. Here’s advice on how to develop yours.

Efficiency: The most important word in your small business venture

Blogger Henry Brown suggest five ways to make your small business more efficient…and increase your odds of success.

“The media” and lessons small business can learn from the new administration

Mark Auerbach advises small business owners on how to deal effectively with the media to get your story told. Honesty matters, he writes.

Where should entrepreneurs invest, besides their company?

Blogger Henry Brown writes about how and why entrepreneurs and small business owners should invest outside their businesses.

If making great profits was easy, every small business would be doing it

Small business blogger Michelle van Schouwen suggests 5 ways to grow your top line and increase profits.

25 ways to build your business through offline marketing

This slide show shares 25 proven methods of offline business marketing that can help you build your small business.

Tips for combining digital with traditional marketing

Guest poster Emma Miller gives savvy advice on how to blend your traditional and digital marketing efforts to reach more customers more often.

Convert foot traffic into customers with an impressive store layout

Guest blogger Josh Astor recommends ways to make sure your retail layout works to draw in customers and increase sales.

Could you be a ‘silver start-up’ entrepreneur?

Guest poster Jess Walter gives tips to people who are interesting in becoming part of the growing trend of seniors starting new businesses.

Secrets of earning an employee’s trust

Blogger Henry Brown writes about the keys to building trust between small business owners and employees.

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