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Developing a Brand Essence to Capture and Keep Your Clients

Sometimes family, friends or even my Basics of Selling on eBay students will ask me if I will sell some high-ticket item for them on eBay – handbags, jewelry, gift cards, etc. They know that with more than 5000 feedback scores and a 100% positive feedback score, I get a lot of traffic to my [...]

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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, April 22, 2010

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Every Story Has A Beginning – What Will Your Business’s Be?

I have a friend who’s completely gung-ho about getting started as a home based business. It reminds me of a time when I was getting started (10 short months ago). The excitement, the nervousness and the sleepless nights are all too familiar.
Here are some of the questions she’s been asking, and maybe they can help [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 15, 2010

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I Swear A Genie Didn’t Grant Me My Business

One of the most common questions I get as a freelancer is “how did you do it.” Sometimes I wake up and ask myself the same question. During years of working for companies, I looked at freelancers from afar, wondering whether they were geniuses or just crazy.  Now I know that it comes down to [...]

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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, March 30, 2010

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Outright Entrepreneurs: Summer Workation Harnesses Teachers’ Brainpower over Summer Break

As a child, did you ever wonder what your teacher did over summer vacation? Nitesh Banta wondered that too, and to his dismay he found out that many teachers have to settle for subpar summer opportunities that do not fit with their skills, training and education. Upon further research, he found that many companies are [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, February 24, 2010

Outright Entrepreneurs: Turn Cycle Solutions Creates Lean, Green Homes and Businesses

Did you know that you spend an extra $80 to $100 per year on your energy bill simply by leaving your computer on at night? Well, Michael Turcotte knows all that and more, and his company, Turn Cycle Solutions is in the business of lowering residential and commercial energy costs while building a greener world.
Michael [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, February 22, 2010

Learning New Entrepreneurial Tricks, Old Dog Style

For those of you out there who, like me, have little or no formal business training, it can sometimes seem overwhelming to be at the helm of your small business. I took a break recently to meet an old friend, a budding entrepreneur, for lunch. She invited me to come early and attend a business [...]

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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, February 5, 2010

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Outright Entrepreneurs: Xerarch’s Foods Known for Salsas with “Chipability”

How many of us have watched a television chef work his magic and thought “I can do it better”? Art Weingaertner is one such person. The Alamogordo, New Mexico based 911 dispatcher and inadvertent salsa chef had his business-launching revelation in 2003.

“I was sitting at home on my day off and a TV chef made [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, January 29, 2010

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Writing a Business Plan for Your Small Business

Before I embarked on the adventure that is entrepreneurship, I had worked exclusively fornon-profit organizations. From public schools to anti-poverty agencies to my years as a Peace Corps volunteer, my professional goals were never financial as they are now. Still, I learned a lot about setting goals, planning, and accountability in the work place. When I [...]

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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, January 10, 2010

Outright Entrepreneurs: Virtual Staging Solutions Can Sell Your Home from Thousands of Miles Away

Move over HGTV, Virtual Staging Solutions just might put your “Stagers” off the air! Virtual Staging Solutions is a service that assists real estate agents, homeowners, and developers in staging a home but without a human stager ever setting foot in the space. Clients send them pictures of the space, and Virtual Staging Solutions inserts digital [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, December 18, 2009

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Discover What Your Small Business is Doing Wrong (and Right) By Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Part 3: Delivering the Survey

So you’ve decided to run a customer satisfaction survey. You have narrowed down the areas you would like to poll your customers about, and written out the questions you would like to ask. But even the best planned, most targeted survey won’t do you any good unless it gets into the hands of your customers. [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 3, 2009

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