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How Do You Decide To Close Your Business?

One of the greatest ways to build long lasting relationships in business is to manage expectations.-Jim Palmer

Jim Palmer, author of Decide, had a couple of successful businesses already running when he decided to partner with a friend for another. This idea, while great at the time, turned out to be an expensive learning experience for them.

Filed Under: Start Up, Marketing, Sales, Small Business

Employee Relationships And The Challenges They Cause

It’s important as a business owner, that the people working alongside you and on your team, that you feel like they’re in your corner.-Jessica Rhodes

Jessica Rhodes runs Interview Connections, a company that helps match podcasts with guest experts. Her business is booming. And she’s running it with a team of virtual employees.

Everything was running smooth. And then Jessica had to take time off for the birth of her second child.

Filed Under: Small Business, Leadership, Start Up

Cheap Pricing Disaster Shows You How To Raise Your Prices, And Keep Clients

People frequently make the mistake of thinking, "If I make it cheap enough people will buy."-Joe Kashurba

Joe Kashurba, from Agency Accelerator, manages 6 figure marketing budgets for some of the largest companies in their industry. Yet, it wasn’t always easy for him.

He started off as a web designer.

Filed Under: Marketing, Small Business, Start Up

Misunderstanding Willpower

Without the willpower to follow through, your goals and intentions are futile. - Matt Fox

Willpower is misunderstood.

It’s not something outside you. It’s not something you need to summon. It’s not something that fails you.

Filed Under: Leadership, Small Business, Start Up

Why Most Business Ideas Fail, And What You Can Do About It

If we realize that failure is normal, we come to view all business as an experiment, where success at the first attempt is not to be expected.

I’m doing things a little different in this episode. Instead of the typical interview, I’m taking control.

I’m not sharing my failures (I don’t know where to start). Instead I’m addressing the reasons why most business ideas die and never find life. And what you need to do to give your ideas a fighting chance.

Filed Under: Small Business, Marketing, Sales, Start Up

Want To Grow Your Service Business? Document Your Procedures Now

If we can't learn from our mistakes and grow, then we're kind of hopeless. - Carey Green

Starting a service business wasn’t the first thing on Carey Green’s mind. He had been a pastor for the last 20 years but he felt a calling towards a different path.

Carey left his church and wondered what he was going to do. He pursued ideas that went nowhere fast. He was editing a friend’s podcast and his friend said, “Why don’t you turn this into a business?”

And he did.

Filed Under: Start Up, Small Business, Solopreneur

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