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Raising Capital

It only takes one to see it! What you will face raising money for your startup. Raising money for a startup is a difficult and time consuming task that takes your focus away from scaling your business. But, it is a necessary function.

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How Businesses Can Help the Environment by Recycling, Reducing, and Reusing

Recycling, reducing, and reusing company resources should be given importance when running start up or established businesses. By doing these things, business owners can help the environment in a very significant way.

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Why the Time is Right to Start A Home Based Business

When it comes to a home based business, you must consider the right timing before moving forward. With today’s precarious economy and more households than ever needing two incomes to make ends meet, now is the perfect time to start a home business.

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Venture Capitalist And How To Raise Capital For Your Company

I entered into business later in the career path after a successful run in education…many ask and are surprised to find out there isn’t that much difference between helping a teenager to succeed …

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Venture Capital Raises in the Start-up and Angel investment market

In my role as a venture catalyst in the private investment market, I often get asked how to go about a raise and what value propositions angel investors are looking for in new companies?

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Don’t follow this same mistake why thousands of small businesses flop

Every entrepreneur who has ever dreamed of setting up or forming their own business start up is fully conversant as to how tricky it can be

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10 Ways to Increase Productivity With Zero Capital

There are many ways for business to increase productivity without investing in new systems or tools. All you need is objectivity and a flexible mindset.

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The Success Formula

For us to succeed, we need, only 4 things. Implementing these 4 things is where the challenge comes in.

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How to Get Your Business to Grow Up and Run Itself

Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, understood that to have his business grow up and run itself, he would need to pay attention to all of the Seven Elements of a Business – so he did.

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Is Your Website Built for Success?

Last year I attended an international internet marketing seminar in Australia. It was a three day event with online marketing being the sole focus. On the first day of the seminar one of the featured speakers was talking about the importance of communication.

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Three Things You Need to Succeed

For every pursuit or goal we have in life there are three things we need to succeed.

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5 Magnets to Attract Clients

Chances are you know things that others would like to learn. If you get that information out of your head and onto your website, it will give you a great magnet to attract leads to your website and help give you power by positioning you as an expert in your niche.

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Are You Qualified To Run Your Business?

Over the last few years I have helped many businesses over come challenges that have threatened it’s continued existence, almost always these challenges arise, not because the business is not viable but because the business owner(s) lack the skills and/or the experience necessary to over come these challenges.

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Perfecting the art of bootstrapping

Pick up a paper, flick on the TV, tune in your DAB…what you’re likely to be greeted with a myriad of bad news, especially with regards to the economy. The tumultuous economic times we’re in have shown no mercy, taking huge brands, investment banks and even entire countries to the brink of financial ruin.

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Stop using Gmail to send business emails

We receive hundreds of emails requesting guest posting each week and I would say 99% of them have Gmail email addresses. Every email that comes from a Gmail account is instantly deleted for three reasons.

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The Most Important Business Tips From Donald Trump

Today I found an email I had sent to my husband a couple of years ago – it contained tips from a Donald Trump book called ‘The Way to the Top’. All the tips are from Business Leaders – they are true classics in my opinion and worth considering often in good times and when we are being challenged.

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How do I leave my day job? Three things you should do before you resign

Just about everyone reaches a point in their work life where they consider acting out that tantalising fantasy. You know – the one where you fire your uber-frustrating Hitler-type boss and set off blazing your own trail to instant riches…

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How do I leave my day job? Set up a social media strategy

If you think social media is merely a forum for sharing what you’re having for lunch or where bored housewives fritter away hours building virtual farms – and that social media has no role in business… you’re wrong.

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