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business owner vision

Your Business, Your Vision: Thinking About the Future (and Writing It Down!)

Overview: Inventor George Washington Carver said “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” That definitely applies to business owners. If you have no vision for the future of your business, you’re going nowhere fast! Today we’re talking about the importance of vision and written vision statements! In last week’s blog post, we talked about how business owners can look ahead and make advance plans to ensure the financial success of their businesses. Today, we’d like to talk about another way business owners can look ahead. Today we’re talking about vision. And we don’t mean the type of vision

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The New Year Is Near: Is Your Business Ready?

Overview: Are you ready for 2024? It’s only a few months away! But before you start making a list of new year’s resolutions, we’d like to suggest making a different kind of list: A list of all the things you can to do make sure your business is prepared for the new year! As this blog post is being published, it’s still only October. It might seem like January and the associated new year are far off in the distance. But they’re closer than you think! In fact, we’ll be taking down our 2023 calendars and replacing them with 2024

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Don’t Let the Holidays Sneak Up on You! Is Your Business Ready for Seasonal E-Commerce?

Overview: The calendar doesn’t say “December” yet. But that doesn’t mean it’s too early to prepare your business for the holiday season! Read on for some tips on how to get ready BEFORE the rush… plus some thoughts on the holidays that come first! Maybe you did a double-take when you saw the title of this blog post. And yes, we know it’s still only September, and we haven’t even celebrated Halloween yet. But there’s no escaping the reality: The holiday season will be here before we know it — and when Christmas rolls around, it’s going to happen whether

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customer relationships

Build and Maintain Customer Relationships and Watch Your Business Grow

Overview: Without customers, a business just isn’t a business. Read on to learn why good customer relationships are so important, how to establish them… and just as importantly, how to keep them! Last week, here on our blog, we talked about the importance of business owners making connections with other business owners to keep their companies growing and moving forward. This week, we’d like to focus on another type of relationship that’s equally crucial to helping businesses survive and thrive: the relationship between business and customer. How should you approach the goal of creating these relationships? How do you keep

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Alignable

Alignable: How This Online Networking Platform Can Help Your Small Business

Overview: Maybe you’ve never heard of Alignable. Or maybe you’ve heard of it, but you’ve never checked it out. If you’re a business owner, Alignable can open up new opportunities for business connections and customer referrals. Read on to learn more! It can be quite overwhelming for business owners to find their way in the digital realm. It’s a crowded virtual world, and it can be frustrating trying to get your name out there and to feel like you’re being heard. In this blog post, we’d like to tell you about an online business networking platform we discovered a while

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Back to School, Back to Work: A Fresh Start for Business Owners

Back to School, Back to Work: A Fresh Start for Business Owners

Overview: Students are going back to school, continuing their education while simultaneously starting fresh. We think business owners should do the same thing, observing a “back-to-work season!” What do we mean by this? Read on to find out! Swimming pools are closed and stores are having big sales on number 2 pencils, which can only mean one thing: It’s back to school season! But while kids everywhere are eagerly anticipating — or lamenting — the start of a new school year, there are plenty of reasons for grown-up business owners to be optimistic about the new phase of the year

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