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The Corona Virus for Small Businesses

Consultant Journal

How should small business owners manage the corona virus, aka COVID-19 ? It’s a question on the minds of many entrepreneurs, as Fortune 500 companies announce new protocols for travel, meetings and even use of coffee cups. Consider arranging financing ahead of time, as part of business continuity preparations.

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4 Financial Innovations to Make Business Easier

Tom Spencer

The competitive nature of business today is stronger than it has ever been, and so it is important for companies to use all of the tools at their disposal. There are many new innovations that allow companies to finance purchases creatively in order to meet their goals over the long term. Finance Tools. Peer Lending.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for.

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Is Your Business Ready to be Sold?

Martinka Consulting

Know the best buyer for your business.” In my book I cover seven types: individuals (or partners), search funders, family or management team, other small business owners, larger (strategic), companies, private equity, and family offices. Know the number at which you’re willing to walk away (from the business).

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

For example, a pricing lead may also take a turn in finance assessing indirect rate impacts. Pricing team professional development can include something so simple as cross-training where each pricing team member takes a job rotation into a new area – sometimes for a year or more.

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Mobile Phones Promise to Bring Banking to the World’s Poorest

Harvard Business

Because she is paid in cash and conducts all of her transactions in cash, she must travel to pay her bills for medical or child care in person. However, some services, such as the well-popularized microcredit financing, designed to grow small businesses, have not worked as well as anticipated.

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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life

Harvard Business

She formed a group of about two dozen men and women in senior management at law firms, public and financial service entities, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, Eli Lilly, Marriott, IBM, and Ford who wanted to challenge the notion that work-life balance is impossible for leaders.