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100 Small Business Ideas To Get You Started

Business Consulting Agency

These days, it is easier than ever to start a small business. Working from home, just about anybody can operate a small business with an Internet connection and computer. Simple as that and enough to start a small business. To help, here is a small business idea list. Travel Consultant.

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Buying a Business; Operating a Business; Selling a Business Employees are More Important than Ever

Martinka Consulting

Publications from the Puget Sound Business Journal, to the New York Times, to the Wall Street Journal and everyone in-between regularly have articles on the job market. Bottom line, it’s an employee friendly market. It’s an incredibly tight job market (WSJ, June 21). WSJ, June 19).

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2020 Study: Why Smart People Start a Consulting Business (And What Holds Them Back)

Consulting Matters

I had a choice to look for a new executive position at 57 or start up my own business. [I I started my own business due to the] uncertainty in the job market. For consultants, it's not just the job changes that got them to move into full-time business ownership. Now the biggest challenge - marketing!

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. To listen and subscribe, visit forecast.fm/itunes.

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Research = Opportunity! 8 Lessons From the Some of the World’s Biggest Sports Brands…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

In the last 18 months working with some of the world’s biggest sports brands, I’ve done research that has taught me the importance of market research to build strong brands and grow sales. Research is one of the biggest challenges marketers face. Wide means talking to as many different people in the market as possible.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player.

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Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming

Harvard Business

According to him, his business nearly collapsed early in the year when he could not access the foreign exchange market to import the raw materials required for his paint production. At that time, the Nigerian central bank was running a currency control regime which stifled the importation of goods for small businesses.