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Are you tired of your day job? Or maybe you are a mother who needs to stay at home most of the day to take care of the children and running the household? There are many reasons why people start their own business nowadays and their are many ideas for self employment. Self employment is a challenge and of course you are taking a significant risk if

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Do you wake up every morning and decide what sort of a day you are going to have? Do you decide to make your day a win? Ill bet that if you do, you will ensure your success for that day... It is all about attitude when it comes to running a successful business, oh and a few other "bits and pieces"... but without the attitude it would all a

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As a small business owner, one of your biggest challenges is marketing your product and/or your website. You can play it safe by doing exactly what everyone else is doing. Or you can embrace the low-cost, high-impact Guerrilla Marketing tactics advocated by Jay Conrad Levinson. Guerrilla Marketers rely more on imagination than large marketing bu

For everything in life, you need a plan, right? The same can be said for business. Every business, whether a startup or a full fledged, profitable organization needs a business plan. In order to know where you are going, you have to know where you came from and what came before you. In this article, we'll explore the key elements of a winning