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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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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. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz. 7 days a week.

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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. I’ve put together 8 key lessons that will help you do a better job researching your market so you can make more sales. There’s no order. On it goes.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

And in a small business, like a convenience store, it initially is: customers, employees, suppliers, and owners. Its target customers aren’t mums and dads lodging their annual tax returns, or small businesses that need help with their accounts. Step one is to recognize your dependencies , i.e. your key stakeholders.

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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. Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. “‘Why us?

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The Value of the Owner to the Business’s Value

Martinka Consulting

This may make sense for a micro-business (a lot of franchises are good examples of where a non-owner manager can run it just fine), but do you really think this applies to a sizable small business? Say one with $5-7 million in sales and 10-15% profit? Growth of sales and profits every year during the recession.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. That’s how I become interested in consulting.”