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7 Actions to Take Now To Avoid Losing $200,000 (or more!)
Small businesses suffer larger losses from employee theft than any other category. Find out how your company can avoid being a victim.
...read moreFour Steps To Success
Here are four steps to success as stated by Jeffrey Keller.
A successful corporate executive in New York was interviewed and asked to identify his professional strengths. He came up with the following list, and I think we can all be more effective in our sales efforts if we apply them as well:
1. Be consistent: This [...]
Getting what you want, Part 2
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How do you get what you want? Remember from Part 1 that fear plays a part in getting what you want. It seems that fear of success is a greater block to progress than actually succeeding.
Another important factor is our fixation on fearing to succeed leads us to that very place. It is kind of [...]
Small Business Happens an American Tradition
Small business makes up 50% of our nations gross domestic product, but that is with a definition of small business being companies with fewer than 500 employees. The real back bone of America is the go getter spirit of the American worker. When faced with a 12.1% unemployment rate, many know the prospects of finding [...]
...read moreWeekly Topic: The Next ‘New Deal’?
In last Friday’s Portland Business Journal, Erik Siemers wrote an article talking about the public work projects being proposed. He referred the the Governor’s public works projects in the light of FDR’s New Deal program from the 30’s.
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