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Most Overlooked Details When Starting A Small Business

Starting a small business is exceptionally exciting and even overwhelming for most aspiring entrepreneurs. As a direct result, it is not too uncommon for most entrepreneurs to overlook a few details in the initial phase of getting started.

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So, to ensure you can get started on the right note, without later realizing you have missed a few essential details, we have rounded up this list of aspects you are most likely to overlook.

Marketing Your Business From The Start

It is a common misconception that marketing only later becomes a critical area of business. However, marketing is essential right from the start.…

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7 Ways to Earn Money While Earning Your Degree

There are countless ways for people to earn money – even when you’re in college. Here’s a look at a few of them. Remember, the only person stopping you from earning money is you.

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1. Be a Pooper Scooper

This can be done nearly anywhere. For example, say you live in California. If you’re going for an MBA, San Diego is an excellent place to do this. People abhor picking up after their dogs. Because of this, there are services all over that will do it for them. It would be simple to start one in your neighborhood.

2. Blog About It

If you decide to make a bit of money online, starting a blog is a great way.…

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Should You Start Your Own Company? 

Perhaps you have reached a point in your professional career where you no longer feel interested in working for your large corporation for the next few years. In fact, you’re ready to resign despite being a senior manager. But, there’s a slight problem — you are still not yet ready to retire.

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You have a dilemma. On one hand, since you have grown your personal wealth through careful financial stewardship, saving and investing wisely through the years, you don’t need to work another day to sustain your standard of living. On the other hand, you want to do something new, different, and refreshing with all the business knowledge and experience you’ve acquired over the decades.…

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5 Things to Consider Before Selling Your Business

Selling your business requires serious preparation—because, ultimately, it can change your life. You need to ask yourself several questions to ensure that you are 100% satisfied with a deal offered to you by potential buyers.

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To make the selling process more manageable, you need to prioritize the questions in order of importance in order to ensure that nothing is missed before the deal is done.

The biggest concerns when selling a business are the current state of the business, values, and the seller’s readiness to go ahead with the deal.

Here are five key things to consider before selling your business:

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Opening a Clinic as a Nurse Practitioner

You’re thinking of opening up a clinic, but you aren’t sure if you can do this. You don’t know how you’ll get this all done or how you’ll become a nurse practitioner. The good thing is all you need to start is the desire to do this and the desire to be a nurse practitioner.

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Check Your State

The first thing you want to do is make sure your state allows you to open up a clinic as a nurse practitioner. Only 24 states allow this, so you have to make sure you’re living in a place that is okay with this.…

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Top Small Business Trends For The 2020s

What’s happening in the small business, startup, and entrepreneurial space in the first half of the 2020s? The short answer is, plenty, and it’s happening at a quick pace, even by modern standards. Some of the trends are related to environmental concerns, but others are centered on old-fashioned dilemmas like expense minimization.

Management team discussing trends

After decades of blustery talk from corporate leaders, the concept of employee ownership is finally taking off, as are two related elements of the everyday work world, namely teamwork and decentralized management. One of the truly astounding features of this fresh wave of managerial progress is that it’s even affecting the smallest of entities, micro businesses.…

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5 Tips: How To Make Sure Your Startup Doesn’t Fail

Many startups are dealing with a massive amount of chaos, change, and turbulence. In the wake of COVID-19, many start-ups are filing for bankruptcy.

Cofounders working on their startup project

Since you want your startup to go up, it helps to be alert to the true reasons why start-ups fail. Avoid these pitfalls, and you’re on your way to success.

Failure To Adapt To Change

Have you been working remotely? Is it time to return to work – full or part time? If you’re like many small businesses, you’re exploring hybrid work arrangements.

According to the Harvard Business Review, more organizations are migrating to hybrid working.…

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3 Smart Steps To Achieve Your Business Goals for 2021

You’ve got a new or existing business and a boatload of goals. The only thing standing between you and your vision is making them real in this new landscape.

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If you’re dreaming of making millions from your business, there are a few things to keep in mind.

Step One: Investigate Your Structural Readiness

Is your business truly ready to go? If you’re not sure, you may need to do some sleuth work and get an outside consultant.

You may believe that since you’ve got a hot idea, a business plan, and start-up capital, that you’re ready for action. However, there could be some things you still need to do to get ready for maximum results.…

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Tips on Becoming a Successful Social Entrepreneur

Social entrepreneurs are big-hearted personalities who look beyond the pursuit of profit by establishing novel initiatives with the potential to solve community problems. The socially responsible approach focuses more on establishing a business for social good.

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Some of the ethical practices brought to the limelight, as a result, include impact investing, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and conscious consumerism.

Successful social entrepreneurs are often celebrated for coming up with bright ideas, products, and services that transform people’s lives. Due to the numerous positive attributes, social entrepreneurship has attracted a lot of public scrutiny, big money, and the very best talents.

Below are four inspiring tips on becoming a successful social entrepreneur:

Operate the non-profit venture as you would a for-profit venture

Some social entrepreneurs are keen on running profit-making businesses while others are not.…

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4 Essential Steps to Kickstarting Your Online Business

The number of online buyers is expected to reach 2.14 billion in 2021. And that’s great news for entrepreneurs that are thinking of launching their own business. Even though the competition can be fierce, the opportunities to make sales and leverage digital business tools allow almost anyone to create a store and find their audience.

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But getting started can be scary as well. You have to navigate countless regulations, figure out your place in the market, and be ready to meet customer expectations from day one.

To help you get started with all of that (and more), let’s go over a few of the key steps you’ll need to take to kickstart your online business in 2021.…

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