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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property.

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7 Ways Your People Skills Are The Key To Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together. Write a business plan for your desired new business. Make sure you can get consistent names on Twitter, Facebook, and other key social media sites.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. In a world where it’s easier to judge the immediate value of a business, I know that metrics like “time on site&# matter. Social Media helps change that.

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Growing A Services Business Requires Selling Yourself

Startup Professionals Musings

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”