How to Help Your Business for the Next 90 Days
When you run a small business, the day-to-day challenges and sales and production targets often keep you so occupied that the only time you really think about taxes is when they are due.
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Stop Being an Owner, and Be a CEO
Are you a small business owner like myself? Are you also like me that you think that you are doing a pretty good job of it? Well, you may have to think again,. I know I certainly do. At the Intuit Global Conference – QBConnect – this past week, I heard Jason Nazar speak in […]
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Blam! Blam! QBConnect
Blam – is that even a real word? I don’t know, although I could probably Google it, and know for sure. Quite honestly though, it doesn’t really matter to me. It has meaning to me, and if you were at Intuit’s QBConnect event this last week, it probably does for you as well. To me, […]
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Here’s What Can Happen With the Right Goal
Goal setting is hard. Some days it is almost near impossible. I’m of course, speaking from my experience only, and sometimes will wince when someone tells me how easy it is. Once you’ve set the goal, the next step is to put the actions in place to achieve it. Also hard. Also some days near […]
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9 Reasons Why Women Have to Work Harder Than Men
I am a woman. That means that this article may have some bias to it. Not necessarily, but I did want to be upfront about it. It also probably means that I know what I’m talking about 🙂 In recognition of International Woman’s Day yesterday, it seemed an appropriate topic for my blog post.
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Leadership Lessons From the Sea
Insight on how we run our businesses can come from strange places – places we never thought to look. Often this is because we’re so caught up in our day-to-day duties and so used to seeking advice in the same old, same old, that we don’t think to try somewhere new and see if it’ll […]
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Who is in your Army?
One night during my recent vacation to Mexico, I was heading to dinner, walking to our restaurant in the Mayan Riviera and saw the most incredible thing. Along the edge of the sidewalk, beside a side flower bed was this row of ants. All of the ants were heading in the same direction, carrying leaves. […]
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What’s in a Word?
I guess that I should probably start this post by saying that I do not have a penis and are very proud of that fact (this statement will make so much more sense once you read the article ) There is a big campaign in the works by Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, to empower […]
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How Failure Can Help You Succeed
Many of us have, at one time or another, become so overwhelmed with a fear of failure that we decide not to pursue a goal, dream or task we had in mind, no matter how big or small it may be. It’s a perfectly understandable fact, but it’s also an unfortunate one, because sometimes what […]
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Business Lessons That Can Help You Succeed at 2014 Resolutions
With the New Year now officially rung in, those of us who had resolutions in mind for this year know it’s time to start focusing on the personal and professional promises we’ve made ourselves and others. Whether our resolutions involve making an effort to floss every day or making a fresh million by a specific […]
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