Three Barriers to Change

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetThree Barriers to Change: Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter Within every organization there is an existing culture that can make it difficult to introduce change.  Because the culture is intangible, it essentially lives within the attitudes, beliefs and values of the individuals […]

You are Your Brand

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!Tweet /> I had a wonderful coffee meeting with a fellow associate yesterday and we discussed some interesting aspects of building a small business.  One of those topics centered on the idea of your reputation.  We’ve all heard the line “your reputation precedes you.”  And when we hear that line […]

The Numbers are the Numbers

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetLet me start by saying that I hate sales people.  I hate the thought that you only see me as a means to an end…as in, your paycheck.  You can usually tell with a lot of sale people that they are not really concerned with finding the right solution for […]

Building your Business Development Skills

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetBusiness development is a key part of building your business. It can also be the toughest. Especially if you’re not a sales person, such as myself. I hate the feeling that I’m being “sold” on something and therefore, I hate the thought of “selling” you on my service. But to […]

What’s in a plan?

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!Tweet Although most can agree that planning is important, they really don’t understand why. I often see things done one of two ways: The people who spend countless hours planning and never doing The people who don’t want to be like the first group, so they do without a plan […]

Success Starts with You

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetSuccess really does start with you. But don’t be fooled by the cliché message here. Realizing there are many levels and aspects to success will help you reach the level you desire. Most of time, success will depend on your personal investment of both time and energy and often times […]

The A Team

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!Tweet When you open your business, you should always focus 80% of your efforts on the activities that make you money – usually, that would be whatever your business specializes in.  Some people when they are just starting out wear so many hats that they lose focus on what makes […]

Cost Effective Marketing

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetMarketing is an essential task regardless of what stage your business is in.  Once your organization has reached a certain level in terms of sustainable revenue, you may consider getting a marketing department or enlisting the help of a firm that can help focus on your marketing needs full time. […]

Cut the Crap

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!Tweet If you’ve been interested in the field of business, entrepreneurship or just money in general, you’ve been exposed to your fair share of motivational and textbook talk.  We’ve heard of the law of attraction, how to organize, how to do more with less, how to push through failure, and […]

Work your Plan

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetSo many times I hear of people making plans that never come to fruition. I too am guilty of having notebooks filled with plans that sound absolutely wonderful…and then I don’t follow through. Then you have the other side of the tracks where people don’t even set goals or make […]

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