Investment & Finance

David vs. Goliath: How Small Businesses are Outmaneuvering Large Companies

Many small business owners often look wistfully at big companies who are in direct competition and they think that these conglomerates have an advantage in the marketplace. The sheer size of the sales force, support team and marketing budget can cause sleepless nights for the small business owner who is struggling to compete against these beasts.

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10 Powerful Lessons From Apple: How To Make Your Customers Love You

Unless you are completely isolated from the world of business, you know that Apple has discovered the magic formula for creating exceptional value. Most people attribute that magic to the Apple products. Unfortunately, most people have it wrong. The magic of Apple is the experience.

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25 Traits Every Successful Entrepreneur Must Have

Regardless of your definition of success, there are, oddly enough, a great number of common characteristics that are shared by successful businesspeople. You can place a check beside each characteristic that you feel you possess. This way, you can see how you stack up. Even if you don’t have all of these characteristics, don’t fret. Most can be learned with practice and by developing a winning attitude, especially if you set goals and apply yourself, through strategic planning, to reach those goals in incremental and measurable stages.

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Health Care Reform and Pre-Existing Conditions: FAQ

Answers to readers’ questions about health care reform and pre-existing conditions.

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How to get a free copy of ‘The Macintosh Way’

Guy Kawasaki’s “The Macintosh Way” empowers the very essence of understanding the principles of evangelism and doing the “right thing the right way” in business. This book and his other book “Selling the Dream” should be required reading for startup companies. Values and principles in business are the key to success. Guy’s keen sense of [...]

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Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

There are few non-fiction books that are considered so valuable, so thought provoking and so engaging that they become true classics. What we have here is one of those and I have been ‘lucky’ enough to have read the book and listened to the audio (two different experiences, which I highly [...]

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Future Planning…

There is an article in the Telegraph today about how more than 70 people an hour are being declared insolvent in the UK alone. The primary reason for this is that people are demanding things NOW, on credit, rather than saving, and they are restricting themselves to a single source of income.

The operating practices since [...]

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