Successful entrepreneurs know that it is not revenue or sales that count, but the gross margin you can produce from your sales. Without a healthy gross margin, your sales will not produce enough gross profit to cover your operating expenses and return a profit to the owners.
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- 11 Fears Every Entrepreneur Must Overcome
- 10 Ways to Make Working From Home More Productive (and Free Up More Time For Yourself) |
- A Beginner's Guide to Digital Marketing
- Do You Need to Start Outsourcing? Here’s How to Tell!
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The convention wisdom about hiring a new employee is to ask for a resume to screen candidates followed by a face to face interview of a few candidates that made the cut and to ask then a series of frequently asked questions. This old-school process is no longer effective.
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- Should You Outsource Your Social Media Presence?
- 3 Things That Blow Your Social Media Credibility (And How to Avoid Them)
- Here's Why so Many Successful Entrepreneurs Got Their Start in Sales
- Becoming an Entrepreneur Is Easy but Succeeding as an Entrepreneur Is Not
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Businesses have to make money and turn a profit to survive. While personal consumption can be influenced by personal ideals and values, in business, it is all about making a profit.
Many nascent entrepreneurs simply roll up their sleeves and try to do everything themselves in the hopes that it will save them money. Unfortunately, the most valuable asset entrepreneurs have is their time. Doing tasks that can be done by less expensive experts prevents entrepreneurs from focusing on the most important aspects of their business. Freelancing platforms exist to help the business owner outsource non-key tasks to experts in their fields for a fraction of what most experts cost locally.
This week’s top stories include small business advice covering the following four topics:
- How to Create a Marketing Funnel That Will Increase Sales and Profits
- How to Hire a Social Media Partner: 15 Questions to Ask
- 7 Steps to Quickly Becoming an Influential Expert in Any Field
- 14 Proven Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills
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Recently, I was teaching a course, “Going Pro – Moving from Hobby to Business” and one of the students was a jewelry designer looking to take her hobby of making jewelry, mostly as gifts for friends and family, and turn it into a paying business. I suggested she focus her jewelry design on a profitable […]
In-House or Outsourced? How Do You Decide? Entrepreneur By: Thomas Smale Because the internet has connected people worldwide, the outsourcing industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades. Another reason for this growth: Outsourcing gives entrepreneurs access to a greater pool of talent and low-cost labor. Their ability to delegate responsibilities […]
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