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Focus on Management Skills

Some new businesses soar. Others languish, crawling slowly forward until their founders’ money and patience are both exhausted, their deaths sadly marked by empty storefronts. Failure is not inevitable. If your product or service is marketable, you can avoid a going-out-of-business sale by honing four critical skills.

Don’t Let Funk Run Your Business

To help morale, you must change your leadership focus from numbers to culture, a focus on purpose, morale, and loyalty. That boils down to engaged relationships. Three rules can help you get there.

The Value of the Written Word

Put everything you do in writing. It might be worthwhile to look at some of the areas where businesses put themselves at risk by not using paper (electronic communications can count as paper).

Good Managers Nurture Success

Consider these points in dealing with your employees and you’ll maximize their contribution to your success.

Remember You’re the Boss

You can share a laugh with your employees when it is appropriate, but you must keep yourself on a higher (though not aloof) level to ensure that the business runs smoothly despite all its (sometimes confrontational) personnel interfaces.

The Payoff Principle—Three Ways To Get What You Want

Dr. Alan Zimmerman has helped over one million people over the last 25 years. His success is seen in the fact that 92% of his speeches result from referrals and repeat engagements. This recent interview provides some of his key thoughts.

How to Successfully Run a One-Person Business

Many successful businesses started as one-person operations. Whether you expect to add employees in the future or plan to stay solo, these tips will help you run your one-person business properly.

How to Make Your Bar or Restaurant Green(er)

Centra Coast consumers want to feel good about the places where they spend their money. Being environmentally friendly isn’t just good for the environment, it’s good for your bar or restaurant as well! Here are a few ways to “green” your restaurant or bar.

Consider Your Marketing Goals

Entrepreneur Magazine’s December issue contained a great article by Ann Handley on setting your marketing goals for the coming year. Without going into the detail she provided, it is worthwhile to talk about some of the high points.

Three Employee Qualities That Could Jeopardize Your Business

Just as a bad manager can destroy the best team working under him, a bad employee can create tensions among his fellow workers and ultimately affect your business in a negative way. Such tensions can tarnish the quality of other employees’ work and ultimately the image and success of the company.

They’re Your Employees — Make Them Want to Stay

The Wall Street Journal recently noted that a surprising number of new grads accepted positions and then declined them before their planned reporting day arrived. I have had several SCORE clients comment that the competition for employees is fierce in all parts of the job market.

10 Tips to Help Build and Grow a Stand-Out Small Business Brand

A survey by the Pew Foundation found that 71 percent of Americans view small businesses more favorably than any other institution, including religious organizations. Why?

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