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6 Ways To Learn The Realities For Starting A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline. Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear.

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7 Essential Steps From A Lone Entrepreneur To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email.

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6 Tips On How To Really Prepare For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Reserve some time each day for your favorite blogs and influencers, follow up with social networking and expand your personal contacts offline. Find a business mentor, as well as a friend. A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while a friend might tell you what you want to hear.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO.

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Meritful Wants To Help Students Showcase Their Wit Online

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Students and teachers could rarely be friends on Facebook and no student would want their Physics or Math teacher telling them to study thoroughly for their term paper, but things change and so do we. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors.

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7 Action Items For Introverts Starting New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email.

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How Introverts Like Mark Zuckerberg Build A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What these people need is more relationships, not more experts, more blogs, or more books. Studies show that as much as 50-90% of communication is body language. Nominate someone as your mentor. Face time is critical, even with the current rage on social networks, phone texting, and email.

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