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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

Success

The key to staying in business and being profitable, Hustead notes, requires regularly monitoring your overhead, labor, inventory expenses and revenue: “If you run out of money and go broke, you’re out of business.” Don’t wait for the bad event to occur, LaMonaca urges. Still, the total headcount for the business was lower.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

Success

Find a mentor. I want to evaluate my cost-of-living expenses and see where I can cut back. I just started my own business, and I want to evaluate my income versus my expenses to see where I am currently, with the ultimate goal of hitting the salary I want to make. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Attend training.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day.

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How To Make An Impression in 25 Different Ways

Brilliantly Better

Plan Out The Details Of An Event There is no one out there that doesn’t like it when you plan for an event. Whether this involves setting the time of the event, or getting gas before a long trip, or picking the restaurant to meet at, this is your chance to impress everyone. The open field is much more appealing.

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Your Ideas Suck – A rant on Startups, Investors & Profit

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

A few weeks ago, I spent some time at a networking event for entrepreneurs. First time I had formally “networked” in years - I normally detest networking events, since they’re usually 100% full of consultants looking for clients. In other words, a networking event is the business equivalent of a nightclub filled with men.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

How kids REALLY have total recall – Today’s Humor of the Day Reply John Bardos ( @jetsetcitizen ) December 7, 2009 at 6:19 am Bloggers like us are not offering free content, the articles are a marketing expense to get readers to pay attention to what we have to say. are our mentors, as well as the discussion leaders. James et al.

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