The Importance of Professional Development

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You finished your degree, you started your business, you have a few certificates…you’ve done well for yourself. Why do you need to continue to self-educate? The world at large is ever changing. Best practices and standards are changing constantly. New laws, new ways to communicate, new technologies and new guides are shifting all the time. Keeping up with these changes are should be a top concern in your business, especially as a small or local business. Appearing to be incompetent can be detrimental to your credibility with your local customer base.

To Splurge or not to Splurge

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetWhile growing your small business you will inevitably encounter times when you must make a decision on whether to spend money or go the DIY route.  These can be tough decisions because every business owner wants to be fiscally responsible, earn a profit and grow their business…all while looking just […]

Are you doomed to be small forever?

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…They never get their business past operating through themselves. This means you aren’t growing, hiring, training or developing any one to run or care for your business in your absence.

The Illusion of FREE Scheduling

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Who wouldn’t want to have complete control over the 24 hours of their day? Whether you’re a morning bird or a night owl, the idea of not having to report to someone to earn your living is a marvelous thought…and one that’s widely misconstrued.

It’s 2Q2014 – How are you measuring up so far?

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetI love starting each new quarter off with a reassessment of my goals. And I challenge others to do the same. First, I immediately recognize who is business and who is not. Business minded individuals generally think in quarters. Our financials are based in quarters and many of our goals […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Spring is coming: Get a JUMP on your planning

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B2BThrive – Helping Your Business Grow!TweetIt’s that time of year again!  You start looking forward to the sunny weather and thinking about how you are going to have more daylight to work on your business ventures. How fun!  Do you have a plan?  Working on your strategic planning is one of the best things you […]

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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