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Top Ten Resolutions for Minority/Women Business Owners

As a minority/woman owned business owner, do you set resolutions for the new year? Janet Christy provides excellent goals that every small business owner should have.

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Unemployed vs. Under-Employed: Five Steps to Mastering a Slow Economy

Is your home office under-employed? Do you know what under-employed is? Jeff Zbar gives you an example and offers tips to master the slow economy.

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Non-Stop Networking: Maintaining a Network

Networking is a process, one that can create business connections to last a lifetime. Networking expert Andrea Nierenberg offers some excellent tips to help your small business.

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The Power of WHO

If you are among those affected my job cuts, or if you know someone who has been affected, networking may help; but you need to do it properly. Chester Elton explains.

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11 Tips to Guide Your Work Life

Most businesspeople don't think of themselves as in control of their lives. Laurel Delaney offers 11 tips to help you guide your work life into positive results.

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Is Your Network a Mile Wide and an Inch Deep?

Your small business network needs to be deeply rooted. Dr. Ivan Misner offers some powerful tips to get you where you need to be.

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Business Referrals Come From Everywhere

Where can you get your small business referrals? Joanna Black gives you some ideas.

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You Never Know Whom They Know

Don't think a gardener can be a referral source to the rich? Think again. Discounting even one potential networking opportunity can be disastrous.

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A Referral Doesn't Mean Closed Sales

You shouldn't skip steps in the sales process, even with a recommendation. Here's how you can make the most of your leads.

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Word of Mouth Marketing is Only as Good as the Referrals You Give

Word of Mouth marketing is not the safest way to advertise. Ivan Misner explains.

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Debunking the Six Degrees of Separation

Do you believe that anyone in the world is only six people removed? Here's why that theory's wrong and what it means for networking.

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Deepen Your Client Relationships & Grow Your Business

Eschewing the competitor is no longer the winner's M.O. Collaboration may be your key to success. Joanne Black tells you why.

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Become a Networking Mentor

If you want to improve your networking skills, then teach someone else what you know. Ivan Misner tells you how.

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Your New Referral Network

Pay attention to what's in front of you: Tap into your everyday, within-reach connections and communities to build your referral-sales business.

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Develop a Magnetic Personality

Every person has a little magnetism already inside him. Learn how to leverage it to draw in more business. Ivan Misner offers some tips.

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OMG, I’m an Introvert!

By finding ways to enhance strengths and minimize weaknesses, anyone can be a good networker.

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Anchor Your Networking With Strong Relationships

Develop a relationship chain within your personal network.

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Top ten resolutions for small business owners

As 2010 begins Small Business Owners are hoping that the economy is taking a turn for the better and making plans to improve their own economic forecast. Janet Christy offers her fourth annual version...

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How and where people network

How and where are most small business owners networking and getting their product out there? Ivan Misner shares the results of a survey from BNI.

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Face-to-face: the original social media

For small business networking, there are many options. But sometimes the most effective is not in the clouds - it's face-to-face.

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