Diversify or Die: 4 Simple Rules to Stay Alive!
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As an entrepreneur, your number one priority should be to strengthen your business’ ability to withstand future unfavorable economic events. That’s to say, you have an edict to maintain your business as an “Ongoing Concern.” This premise should be the basis of every entrepreneurial endeavor.
Don’t Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket!
In business, as in life, it is easy to fall…
5 Tips to Make Your Team More Focused & Productive
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You may be confident in your own focus and productivity, but teams are another story. How do you ensure that everyone on your team is working towards the same goals, staying on track, and coming up with great new ideas? These five tips will help you keep your team focused and productive.
1. Ensure that everyone is on the same page.
What’s obvious…
4 Lessons About Leadership from Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann
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As CEO of the world’s largest charitable organization, Sue Desmond-Hellmann knows a thing or two about leadership. And she’s known for a long time. Before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014, she was Chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and before that she was president of product development at Genentech, making her a recognized leader in areas…
15 Inspiring Quotes from Successful Entrepreneurs
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Spring is here. If you’ve stumbled on keeping your New Year’s resolutions, there’s no better time to push those stumbles aside and focus on the new goals, new challenges, and new opportunities just around the corner. If you need some words of advice, look no further than these 15 quotes from successful entrepreneurs that will encourage and inspire you on all your current and…
4 Tips for Achieving Better Work-Life Balance
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To outsiders, entrepreneurs and people who run their own business look like we got it made. In some ways, sure, we do. We may get to set our own hours, but that doesn’t mean we have more freedom than the average worker bee. As you probably know all too well, we’re are often even more tied down by work, always working, working, working, even…
5 Essential Productivity Apps for Entrepreneurs
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As an entrepreneur, you know how difficult it can be to juggle the myriad tasks required of you throughout the week. Efficient time management is of utmost importance. Luckily you don’t have to handle all of this alone. There are dozens of useful apps that can help you get organized, manage your workload, and get things done. Here are five essential productivity apps to…
Why You Shouldn’t Say You’re "Busy" Ever Again
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Speaking at the Inc. Women’s Summit last year, Anese Cavanaugh, founder and CEO of Dare to Engage, offered a surprising bit of advice for all the up-and-coming business leaders in attendance: Ban “busy” from your vocabulary right now.
Cavanaugh argued that “busy” is a symptom of a much bigger problem. “The bigger problem,” she explained, “is a lack of intention, a lack of presence,…
5 Simple Ways to Sharpen Focus and Increase Productivity
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Productivity is the result of smart planning and focus. As an entrepreneur, you know how tough it can be to stay focused and productive with a million different people and tasks begging for your attention. You also know that despite how accomplished you feel after a particularly productive session or day at work, productivity can be exhausting. Sometimes you need a breather. It’s absolutely…
A Few Quick Tips for Getting Paid Faster!
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Many businesses miss the basics of keeping the cash flowing. This can be incredibly tough on small businesses, which often depend on timely payments from clients to pay the bills and grow. The following are just a few strategies that will help you collect on invoices faster and more effectively.
1. Invoice Your Customer Promptly and Accurately!
Send out an invoice the day you…
