Tag: Small Business or Entrepreneur
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Online Resources For Business Owners
As an entrepreneur you’re inundated with information, how-tos and best practice tips and hints from colleagues and from websites. We are all bombarded daily with more information than we can possibly keep up with, but there are some resources you simply need to have at hand. Here are our top online resource favorites: Your local…
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Your Company Should Be A Reflection of ‘You’
When it comes to running your business or even finding a business partner with whom to work, do you operate under a system of core values? Do you know what your core values are, both personally and professionally? When you step back and look at it objectively, it is your inherent personal values that you…
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How Do You Measure Productivity?
As an entrepreneur, how do you measure productivity? Whether you manage a group of employees, a handful of independent contractors or are merely keeping track of your own productivity levels, you need to ask yourself: How productive am I? At what level are your time management skills? Was getting organized at the top of your…
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Member profile: Deidre Morhet
Deidre Morhet was a real-life “rocket scientist.” This New York native has a Masters in Engineering and worked with NASA in Houston. Deidre married Jeff and has four children. Growing up in a family of entrepreneurs, she helped small businesses with accounting issues after she moved to Phoenix fourteen years ago. In 2004, Morhet created…
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Member profile: Wright Consulting LLC
Orville Wright III, the founder of Wright Consulting LLC, has spent most of his life in the Valley. He seems to have been a born entrepreneur, having started making money at eight years old doing landscaping for his local Taco Bell. He moved up to making a profit reselling Bubble Yum, painting addresses on carports,…
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Five Sure-Fire Small Business Marketing Strategies
Entrepreneurs know they need to set their business apart from the competition and they’re always looking for a new marketing strategy that will propel them above all others. There really is no one true marketing strategy that will do it all; savvy business owners know they need to have a well-rounded battery of marketing tools…
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Member Profile: Scott’s Generations
Scott’s Generations is a staple of its central Phoenix neighborhood since 1989, when native New York father and son Gene and Scott Snyder moved to Arizona and opened the deli. Daily, from breakfast to dinner, Scott’s serves authentic New York cuisine, including lox, knishes, and cheesecake, along with traditional soups, salads and sandwiches. Scott’s, located…
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Don’t Make These Facebook Mistakes
There are critics of Facebook’s social commerce say that the concept will be “a footnote in the pages of tech history.” Whether this is true or not remains to be seen. As with any marketing effort if you operate with out a plan whether online or off-line – it could be doomed to failure. Just…
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How Effective Is Social Media For Your Industry?
If you’ve ever wondered how well social media works for your particular industry segment and how your competitors are using social media, we offer information on five broad industry segments that are reaping benefits from their involvement in social media and how you can implement their ideas into your social media marketing plan: The entertainment…
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How Editorial Calendars Will Help With Your Social Media
Entrepreneurs looking to build a strong social media and blogging presence can take a page out of their book and build an editorial calendar as well. The time spent putting together an editorial calendar will make your blogging and social media duties easier during the year because you won’t be stressing about the “what am…