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How Small Businesses Can Navigate the Elimination of Third-Party Cookies

Businesses need customers to stay competitive. To get those customers, most companies engage in digital marketing. However, one major type of digital marketing tool looks like it’s going away—the...

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15 Books That Every Entrepreneur Should Read

The dog days of summer are here, which means prime reading time. While the warmer weather continues to beckon us outdoors, it feels as though there is more time to hit the books. Aspiring entrepreneurs...

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5 Tips to Hold on to High-Performing Employees

Even before the pandemic, employers complained of labor shortages. Now, they’re experiencing an even tougher time finding and retaining high performers. How challenging is the marketplace for...

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4 Major Obstacles Every Entrepreneur Must Overcome

With very few exceptions, the road to successful entrepreneurship has never been without its obstacles. Even during the best of times, blazing new ground in the business world has always been risky....

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Start Lean, Stay Lean: 4 Ways to Shape Up Your Operation

As a startup founder, you have a lot of dreams to accomplish on a limited budget. One way to make sure you accomplish your goals is by focusing on efficiency right away. You can start by considering...

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7 Marketing Trends Startups Should Keep Their Eye on in 2023

So much is happening as we head toward 2023. Inflation keeps rising. Supply chains are better, but still unpredictable. And everywhere you look, you see the “Recession or no recession?” debate playing...

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4 Ways to Recapture Lost Revenue

Lost revenue. It’s a reality for all businesses. Even if your company had a banner year, you inevitably experienced some type of financial loss. However, you can reduce those losses by putting revenue...

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How AI and Machine Learning Can Boost Business Efficiency

Efficiency. It’s the goal of every modern business from the newly minted startup to the legacy enterprise. Yet becoming a well-oiled machine can be tough. Leveraging tools that use artificial...

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4 Types of Companies to Help You Manage Your Metrics

Everyone has been trying to find new ways to track metrics and monitor data. After all, the more use you can get out of your data, the easier it is to make decisions, grow bigger, and build a brand....

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How to Empower Employees to Be Decision Makers

The road to business success is paved not just with smart processes and great equipment but with empowered employees. When you give workers the autonomy to make decisions without asking permission...

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How Remote Work is Continuing to Change Business Operations in 2023

Plenty of businesses made the switch to remote operations in the spring and summer of 2020. Though some have brought most or all of their workers back to the office, others haven’t. A 2022 Gallup...

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How Your Startup Can Cut Costs Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot

It’s one thing to bootstrap your business. It’s another thing to spend too little on core operations. That’s a mistake plenty of entrepreneurs make. Rather than being tactical and selective, they cut...

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The Evolving Role of Social Media in a Marketing Play

When a new form of media emerges, it’s a sure bet marketers will find ways to use it to their advantage. The first newspaper ad ran in 1704, and free broadcast television likely wouldn’t have existed...

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3 Ways TikTok Trends Can Benefit Your Startup

With 672 million app store hits, TikTok was 2022’s most downloaded social media platform. And while the average TikTok user spends around 95 minutes a day on the app, only 18% of marketers use it. With...

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5 Ways You Can Still Find Funding for Your Startup in this Economy

Coming up with an ingenious business idea is great, but having the money to fund it is even better. With enough cash, you know you have a fighting chance to make your entrepreneurial dreams come true....

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Exploring How Rebranding Can Revitalize Your Business

Like forgotten food in the back of your pantry, sometimes brands can grow stale. You may need to get with the times or overcome negative publicity. Alternatively, your company could be expanding into...

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How Your Startup Can Leverage UCG to Grow Your Audience

Connecting with an audience is something businesses must do to stay in the game. But it’s even more imperative if your company’s in its early stages. It’s time to prove your business plan has enough...

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How to Prepare Your Startup to Be Ready for Anything

You may have already overcome one of the biggest challenges of starting a new business. You formulated an idea and got it off the ground. But now comes the even harder part — seeing it through. There’s...

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Why You Should Prioritize Content In the Early Stages of Your Business

Making an impressive splash is important when you’re launching a company. One strategy to get noticed faster is to prioritize content during your business’s startup stages. Content allows you to...

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4 Ways to Prep Your Small Business to Hit the Ground Running in the New Year

Now that we’ve rung in the new year and the joy of all the holiday celebrations has settled, we’re now transitioning back to reality. As a startup or small business owner, this “reality” means making...

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