17 (or More) Ways to Increase Small Business Sales

There are lots of ways to boost your sales and grow your small business today. We’ve created a roundup with some suggestions below. Want to add to our list, including Susan Oakes’ 17 ways to boost sales? Please add your comments below and help inform the community. Strategy   Ways to increase your sales....

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Click here to find out more! Best Motivational Books For Small Businesses

Most entrepreneurs want to stay positive and upbeat. If we don’t we might succumb to defeat, and let down those who are counting on us: our employees, our customers, and our business partners.   That’s where motivational books come in. A good inspirational book can be reassuring. It helps you see that other...

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How to Survive the Peaks and Valleys of a Seasonal Business

The parties often went late into the night, with up to 150 friends milling about their pool, gathered around the piano, singing, talking and laughing. Scott Jones and his partner, Kell Hicklin, loved entertaining. So when they decided to tank their respective careers in marketing and human resources, the couple determined it...

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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? If you aren’t sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail. The intuitive answer — that you are born...

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5 Key Skills to Develop to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

Becoming a successful entrepreneur is not just a combination of good fortune and being in the right place at the right time. A talented business person will be able to use a range of skills to identify what is the right business to move into (or out of) at key times in order to maximize their profitability and to build their...

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Forbes Business Tip: Sell More by Adding Variety

People buy more jelly beans when they’re offered an assortment of colors. This is true even if all the different-colored jelly beans taste exactly the same. After reviewing 50 experiments that involved more than 5,000 consumers, researchers at Switzerland’s University of Basel, Germany’s University of...

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