Category Archives: Blog
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10 Principles for Nurturing Employees
Posted on May 13, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, business strategies, small business, tipsEmployees don’t appreciate being treated like children. Which would make it seem using anything akin to “good parenting” techniques for developing employees at your small business would be a bad idea. However, raising successful children who reach their full potential does bear some relationship to nurturing and developing employees in ways that allow them to [...]
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Turning Why’s into How’s – Small Business
Posted on May 4, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, business funding, business strategies, small business, tipsDun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp (a.k.a. “D&B”) had some good news for small business owners seeking investors in 2012. Not only was it good news for small businesses, it came from a reliable resource. For one, D&B has been doing what they do for a very long time – to the tune of 172 years. [...]
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Small Business: If the Shoe Fits
Posted on May 4, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, business strategies, innovation, marketing, small business, small business loans, tipsThere isn’t a small business owner out there (at least among those who want to succeed) who wouldn’t want to take advantage of a business tool that would identify exactly what and where their business needed to improve or be able to leverage what other small businesses in their sector are doing to improve performance [...]
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Your Economic Theory Has a Name
Posted on April 27, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, business strategies, economy, government, information, small businessWith the sequester hovering over American like a black cloud it seems that everyone has an opinion about who is to blame and what America “should do.” Turn on the news and we hear statistics that often seem to cancel each other out – not to mention that most of us simply don’t have the [...]
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The Relationship Between Local Small Business and Positive Social Change
Posted on April 26, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, customers, economy, local business, small business, social mediaWhile you may not be aware of this, if you’re a small business owner, you qualify as a “social entrepreneur.” There are many definitions of social entrepreneurship out there, but they all include the notion of achieving positive social change via entrepreneurial principles, operations, and processes. The impact of local small businesses on the communities [...]
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Restaurant Entrepreneurs: Is a Culinary Degree Necessary?
Posted on April 22, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, restaurants, small business, startupsBy: Guest Restaurateur From my experience in the kitchen, culinary degrees are a dime a dozen and never an indication of someone’s skills or competency. The sad part is that they aren’t a dime a dozen to the young aspiring chefs that pursue them, in fact, they can cost upwards of $50,000. You learn a [...]
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Purchasing: The Poor Relative of Sales
Posted on April 16, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, business strategies, small business, tipsPurchasing: The Poor Relative of Sales Every small business owner is in the business of selling. Every small business owner needs to purchase things in order to sell things. #1 is pretty obvious – and it is appropriate for small business to place a high priority focus on sales (which, of course, means focusing on [...]
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Build a Workshop to Build Your Small Business
Posted on April 14, 2013 by The TakeCharge Staff in Blog, business strategies, customers, marketing, small business, social media, tipsNo, this is not an article about the benefits small business owners can glean from attending workshops to hone their business and leadership skills. This is an article about the benefits small business owners can glean from building their own workshops. This is also an article about how to leverage your content marketing materials. Don’t [...]
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Are All Customers and Clients Created Equal?
Posted on September 20, 2012 by The TakeCharge Staff in advertising, Blog, business strategies, customers, marketing, small business, tipsParents are known to say they don’t love one child over another, that their love for each of their children is “equal.” Of course there really isn’t any way we can “quantify” how much we love someone – but the idea that a parent would love one child “more” than another does seem inherently wrong. [...]
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Ben Finds TakeCharge Online… Gets Wowed! (Video)
Posted on September 13, 2012 by The TakeCharge Staff in advertising, Blog, business funding, marketing, Merchant Cash Advance, Reviews, small business, small business loans, Testimonials, videoWe were glad to help Ben! Thanks for the referrals!
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