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Startups Are Looking Overseas From The Outset

The motivations for starting a business are understandably diverse and complex. In a recent report by the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, over 1,000 global entrepreneurs were interviewed and listed their primary motivations for creating a company. These included: Autonomy & better work: Freedom, flexibility, and better work opportunities. Challenge & opportunity: Personal challenge, […]

Getting the Most Value from Selling Your Business in 2016

This is Part 3 of 3 in this blog post series about Selling Your Business in 2016. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here! In the previous two posts in this three-part series, we discussed the importance of early and thorough preparation, and the need to start with a realistic understanding of […]

How to Prepare to Sell Your Business Simply in 2016

This is Part 2 of 3 in this blog post series about Selling Your Business in 2016. You can find Part 1 here! While selling a business can be one of the biggest steps you ever take, it doesn’t need to be stressful or overly complicated. In fact, by following the steps outlined below, it […]

Is 2016 the Year You Will Sell Your Business?

This is Part 1 of 3 in this blog post series about Selling Your Business in 2016. Stay tuned for part 2 and 3! All indicators point to 2016 being a banner year for selling your business. 2014 and 2015 have seen accelerated M&A activity across the board in comparison to earlier recession years, while interest […]

What Can You Do Online to Support Your Local Offline Businesses?

Those of us who work primarily online can sometimes develop a kind of tunnel vision. When we think “retail,” we’re actually thinking about e-commerce. When we think “publicity,” we’re automatically thinking about guest blogging, link building, and SEO. And when we think “advertising”… well, we don’t like to think about that do we? But, as […]

What the Rich Say about Getting Rich – 10 Books to Inspire You

Admit it. You do envy people who are rich, if only just a little. Life just seems to be easier for them; they don’t worry about the bills; they take nice vacations; they can pursue lots of interests and hobbies; they don’t worry about retirement. We also wonder how they became rich, if they did […]

How To Protect Your Business With Intellectual Property Rights

Entrepreneurs often invest time, money and a significant amount of energy to develop a business idea. There’s nothing more soul destroying than after years of hard work, seeing your idea, products and services being copied and sold by competitors. Protecting your Intellectual Property is an essential component of running a business and in the early […]

Dishonest Job Candidates: 3 Steps for Weeding them Out

Everybody writes their resumes in ways that enhance their best qualities and obscures their weaknesses. In the same vein, people answer interview questions in the most self-flattering way possible. This behavior is perfectly acceptable and should be expected from recruiters and business managers. The problem comes when interviewees tell out and out falsehoods about their […]

The 5 Conversion Rate Optimization Techniques That Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know

As an entrepreneur if you think the secret to getting more clients or more sales is more traffic to your website–think again. These businesses listen to “pros” who tell them that they need to attract more visitors to their site or spend thousands in paid search ads to draw in more potential customers. Its not […]

Turning A Hobby Into A Business – A Happier Life

In 1937 George Valliant, a psychologist and Professor at Harvard University, began one of the longest running studies of physical and mental wellbeing ever recorded. For over 70 years Professor Valliant and his colleagues studied the lives of 268 individuals through wars, divorces, sickness and even a successful presidential election. The purpose of which was […]

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