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4 Ways to Identify Your Ideal Client and Prime Your Business for Growth

Success

These are bread-and-butter accounts that help you meet basic expenses and smooth out the times when business is slow. This article was published in February 2008 and has been updated. A steady client who is slightly below average might be more valuable than a one-shot client that is rated B, or even A in immediate profitability.

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This One Question Transformed My Sales Career—and My Life

Success

I began working and paying for my own clothes and expenses when I was 10 years old, doing odd jobs around the neighborhood. This article was published in June 2008 and has been updated. I started off in life with few advantages. My father was not always employed and my family never seemed to have any money.

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Economic Uncertainty Hits Millennials; Only 1/3rd Feel They are Middle Class

Small Business Labs

In 2014 we reported on a Pew study showing only 44% of Americans consider themselves middle class, down from 53% in 2008. This quote points out one other trend of note - weddings have become way too big a deal and way too expensive. This is part of a broader trend of fewer Americans in general seeing themselves as middle class.

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Will the New Artisan Economy Save the Middle Class?

Small Business Labs

.  Key quote: The multi-trillionfold decline in the cost of computing since the 1970s has created enormous incentives for employers to substitute increasingly cheap and capable computers for expensive labor. The good news is the article's authors see growing opportunities for a new class of middle class jobs.

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Top 5 Tips on Building a 6 Month Cash Reserve

The Small Business Blog

autoresponder-marketing.simplycast.com Jason Vickers Stefan, Thanks for the great article. www.bitsofbusinessblog.com Henrik Poulsen Hi Stefan Great article on cash flow, a very important part of any. Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month. After reading. After reading.

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Customers Have to Pay at Claire's

Make or Break Moments

I have made purchases with a check – the check goes through a little machine and bada bing, bada boom, the money is removed from my account and I’m handed back the check. The company gets their money and I’m not inconvenienced.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

Success

When he was a teenager, the world taught him that life isn’t fair, at the expense of those parents. By any definition he’d reached undeniable success in music by 2008, and he seemed to have a reasonable blueprint to sustain it. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of SUCCESS magazine.