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Small Businesses Still Not Hiring

May 5, 2012 by Jeff Cornwall
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It is getting to be a broken record — we need small businesses to lead us into a real recovery that is based on job growth, but small businesses are just not ready to increase their workforces.Two job indexes released this week show mixed results.SurePayroll Scorecard data shows that month-over-month, hiring is down -0.1% and average... [read more]

Are You a Coach or a Manager?

May 2, 2012 by Holly Green
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Have you ever wondered why the head of a baseball team is called the manager and the head of a basketball team is called the coach? The answer may not be what you think. [read more]

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Audio Archive: Hire More Staff or Contract Out?

May 1, 2012 by Kelsey Arnold
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Hire More Staff or Contract Out? A Question for Every Small BusinessSponsored by... For entrepreneurs with the right strategy, this is an exciting year to launch a new business with high growth potential. Our panel of experts will show you innovative ways of finding funding including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based... [read more]

We Don’t Need No Stinkin' Process

April 28, 2012 by John Jantsch
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I’ve spent the last decade or so preaching the gospel of systems thinking for marketing.I chose the word system as the cornerstone of the Duct Tape Marketing point of view because after working with small business owners for many years I found that they had no problem thinking about systems when it came to things like getting the... [read more]

Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

April 3, 2012 by Tony Karrer
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Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that? [read more]

Career Success Lessons From the Final Four

March 30, 2012 by Bud Bilanich
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The Final Four is this weekend. How is your bracket at this point? [read more]

Career Success Advice for New College Grads

March 27, 2012 by Bud Bilanich
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Yesterday was an anniversary for me. I graduated from Penn State on March 25 1972 – that’s 40 years ago! To paraphrase Bob Seger, “40 years, where’d they go? 40 years, I don’t know.” [read more]

The Cost of a Disengaged Employee

March 24, 2012 by Jacob Morgan
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I’ve had a lot of interesting discussions lately around employee collaboration and one of the topics I’ve been having conversations around is employee engagement. Now before I go into more detail I want to stress that engagement in this case doesn’t refer to activity on a platform such as submitting ideas, commenting, sharing status updates or anything else of that nature. [read more]

Do You Celebrate Wins, Even When You're Losing?

March 23, 2012 by Craig Padoa
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Feeling like a winner can make all the difference, even in tough times. [read more]

Five Proven Ways to Undermine Excellence in Your Organization

March 20, 2012 by Holly Green
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Want to eliminate excellence in your organization? Then make sure to not do these five things. [read more]

The Monastic Startup

March 20, 2012 by Brad Feld
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Last week at our Yesware board meeting, we talked about the idea of “the monastic startup.” This was a phrase that Matthew Bellows, Yesware’s CEO, came up with, and it characterizes the culture they are creating at Yesware. It embodies two concepts:The monastic startup is a place where engineers do the best work of their lives. This... [read more]

Limiting Risk Exposure for Dangerous Business Activities

March 13, 2012 by Nina Kaufman
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Small business liability insurance reduces risk exposure for even the smallest businesses. [read more]

The Hierarchy of Getting the Important Stuff Done

March 12, 2012 by John Jantsch
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There is always more that you want to do than you can humanly or otherwise actually do. That’s just the nature of owning a business and the minute you let up it comes right back at you. [read more]

Small Business Insurance for Virtual Offices

March 6, 2012 by Nina Kaufman
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What insurance will protect your virtual office against personal injuries or property damage? [read more]

7 Essential Building Blocks to More Effective B2B Marketing

March 6, 2012 by Bob Apollo
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According to a recent series of articles by Adam Needles, author of “Balancing the Demand Equation," the current state of B2B demand generation is deeply and seriously troubled - because many marketers are still failing to think of the task of creating demand as process with a series of optimisable steps through which prospect interest... [read more]

4 Steps to Maintaining Your Cool When Faced with Stinging Criticism

March 5, 2012 by Pamela Slim
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Yesterday morning, I came home from giving a presentation at Laid Off Camp Chandler. I was feeling so good after spending an hour with a room full of positive and eager participants who wanted to know about starting a business. The event was hosted at Gangplank, and watching all the presenters who had come in on a Saturday morning to... [read more]

TEDx Catch the Buzz: Employee Engagement and Engaging Honeybees, Really!

March 4, 2012 by David Zinger
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Here is my TEDxManitoba talk on the work I am doing with honeybees and the connections between honeybees and humans paired with engagement, organization, and community. This is very experimental and an example of thinking differently inside the hive. I trust this work will give us living lenses to examine employee engagement, our... [read more]

Can Small Companies Benefit from Collaboration?

March 2, 2012 by Jacob Morgan
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Many of the examples and case studies we are seeing today around emergent collaboration involve companies with thousands of employees around the world.  But, this doesn’t mean emergent collaboration tools and strategies are only for the enterprise.  In fact, nothing could be father from the truth.  Collaboration can... [read more]

You Owe the Companies Nothing

February 29, 2012 by Gavin Heaton
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Stan Johnson shares this great rant from Banksy on advertising and advertisers in our society. It’s a little Cluetrain-esq with a more activist angle. [read more]

Checklist: What to Look for in a Great Marketing Consultant

February 25, 2012 by Danielle MacInnis
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The most successful marketers measure what they do and they know how the marketing activities are impacting the revenue. They not only get leads into the funnel, they nurture them through the journey to become a customer and advocate. Great marketers are technologically savvy, creative, analytical and obsessed with tools to better... [read more]

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