It’s true for things as well as people.  Everything and everyone’s
for sale.  That’s true in both good and bad ways.  But for today’s
purpose, I’m referring to the sale of your business.  Anita Campbell
over at Small Business Trends blog answered a question from a reader regarding how to go about selling the family business. The answer [...]

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An orchestra hires the very best musicians it can afford.  Each of
those people is at the top of their game.  A great orchestra can become
an entire team of prima donas.  The role of the imressario is to keep
each of those world-class musicians happy, healthy, comfortable and
functioning to the full level of their ability.  The impressario will
resolve [...]

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My son is a successful web developer.  He’s written numerous
web-based applications you would have heard of.  In fact, if you’re
less than 30 years old, chances are you’re using some of them right
now.  He’s an entrepreneur in the best and most complete sense of the
word.  And like many entrepreneurs, his mind never rests.  He’s
constantly working on [...]

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I just finished reading John Jantch’s Duct Tape Marketing post entitled Go Ahead, Dream Small, where he makes the following statement:

But when it comes to marketing your small business I
would trade big dreams and pages of killer ideas for one little
strategy brilliantly and consistently executed. Small business owners
get so caught up in the “web 3.0 [...]

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A number of years ago, my wife and I took a cruise in th southern
Caribbean.  For ten days we plied the beautiful waters and visited a
number of exotic islands.  And if we’re telling the truth here, I was
miserable the whole time.  It makes me crazy to always be “going”
somewhere and never “getting” anywhere.  People say, [...]

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I just finished a conversation with a very nice lady who has a puppy
I’m interested in buying.  I say “conversation,” but it was really more
of an interview.  This lady sells Black Russian Terriers, a Russian
guard dog of some renown in Europe.  The price on the puppies (if you
just want a “companion” quality dog) is $2,000.00.  [...]

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Over the years I’ve had countless employees sit down with me and ask
for more money.  Some of those people got raises and some didn’t. 
Often, the difference was the attitude (which influences the work
ethic) and the paradigm of the person.  My dad always used to say if
you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the [...]

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I have been watching the news channels all day with their discussion
of the work of Dr. Martin Luther king.  I have to say I respect anyone
who’s willing to give their life for what they believe.  MLK worked
tirelessly for years in a cause he believed in his heart was right (and
history has proven what he believed [...]

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I had an experience with a friend the other day I just needed to
share.  This friend is a successful real estate agent who spends a lot
of time analyzing the market.  Probably better than anyone else around,
he understands what’s going on in our market.  So I was surprised when
he told me (and continues to tell me) [...]

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While I was in college I spent many weekends each winter teaching
survival in Utah’s rugged wasatch mountains.  We would cross country
ski deep into the mountains for three days and two nights in below zero
temperatures.  All we carried with us was what would fit in a small
fanny pack.  We had no tents, no sleeping bags, no [...]

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