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How To Develop A Story Brand Framework For Your Small Business
Stories are a great way to clarify and communicate your brand's message to employees and to prospective customers to get them to buy from you. The story brand framework is a 7-step process to help craft that story.
Small Business Advice – Pick of the Week Sept 18th, 2021
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- Startups Don’t Need More Money— They Need More Customer Insights
- Trying to Sell Your Business? Skipping This One Step Will Leave a Fortune on the Table
- What you need to know before you take on an investor for your business
- 5 steps to turn your side gig into a full-fledged business
Each week we scour all the top business-related magazines and newspapers for articles with the best advice for the small business owner, so you do not have to.
The Truth About Why Draws and Distributions Are Non-Taxable
Draws and distributions are simply a mechanism that allows owners to take out excess cash from the business. In pass-through entities, there are no tax consequences for doing either an owner draw, distribution, or a cash infusion in the normal course of business. This concept often creates a level of confusion for founders not versed in a few basic principles of accounting.
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How To Choose Between Wealth and Power, Understanding the Founder’s Dilemma
One of The Most Important Decisions A Founder Will Have to Face Early on In Their Journey Is to Retain Power and Control or Focus on Creating Wealth and Growing the Business Fast in What Is Known as The Founder’s Dilemma.
Small Business Advice – Pick of the Week Sept 11st, 2021
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- 3 Essential Rules for Selling Your Business, From Serial Entrepreneur
- 7 questions that every novice entrepreneur asks, resolved by the director of Mercado Libre
- How to Leverage Your Full-Time Job to Fund Your Entrepreneurial Dreams
- 5 Critical Lessons I've Learned From Interviewing Over 100 Entrepreneurs
Each week we scour all the top business-related magazines and newspapers for articles with the best advice for the small business owner, so you do not have to.
Your Old School Management Practices Are Dooming You To Failure?
There is a mismatch between what science knows about motivation and what the business does. Many businesses continue to use techniques designed for the industrial era workers that no longer work.
Why You Need to Employ Education-Based Marketing
Education-based marketing involves sharing information and educational resources with potential buyers while setting the purchasing criteria they should use that favor your offering.
Small Business Advice – Pick of the Week Sept 4th, 2021
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- 5 Ways to Cultivate an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- The Great Resignation Is Here, and It's Real
- 3 Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves Before Becoming an Entrepreneur
- Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph said the 'glorification of entrepreneurship' has set up a mistaken perception of what it takes to launch a business
Each week we scour all the top business-related magazines and newspapers for articles with the best advice for the small business owner, so you do not have to.
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Why You Need to Be Measuring the Right Things
Measuring the Right Things When It Comes to Business Is Critical. Too Many Businesses Measure Inputs and Not Outputs.
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Why You Should Adopt the Maverick Principles for Social Media
The Maverick principles consist of eight steps and outline how small businesses need to define their social media strategy.
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