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Ways a Small Business Can Scale to Profitability

You’ve got a great business starting up. It’s generating enough awareness, it attracts new customer every month, and the sales volume numbers look impressive. Yet, after you’ve done all the bookkeeping and calculations, the profits aren’t as big as you thought it would be. Ring a bell? Actually, this problem is common for many small businesses, and many entrepreneurs being too busy without generating a significant profit. How to improve this situation then? The answer is to get your business a healthy profitability and program it to scale continuously to achieve even better profits. Here are some of the ideas …

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5 Secrets to Mastering Work-Life Balance

The issue of work-life balance have been a long-term dilemma and the topic for endless debates, maybe ever since the inception of the modern business capitalism. Senior executives and business scholars will tell you that true work-life balance is impossible to achieve, and is at best an empty idealism. However, we cannot say that maintaining both the work aspect and the life aspect in our lives is not important, in fact, a damage to one might affect our performance in the other, and vice versa. How then, that we can at least achieve some form of balance between work and …

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How Much Does a Sales & Marketing Consultant Cost?

Decided in getting help from a sales or marketing consultant, but confused about how much you should pay? Don’t worry, we all have been there at some point. Thus, we will discuss on how much they should actually cost. There are many ways of how consultants can charge for their services, here are some of the most common ones used by sales and marketing consultants : Payment Structures For Consultants 1. Flat fee/Lump Sum As the name suggests, hiring a consultant based on a lump sum will only require you to pay once upfront. The plus side of this payment …

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You Don’t Have to Burn Out to Be Successful – Key Relationships to Put Your Business On Autopilot

You cannot scale up a business without building relationships. If your marketing system is a series of campaigns that work together to bring you leads and get more sales, then your prosperity system is a series of campaigns that also includes bringing you more relationships such as investors and team members. Here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the relationships you’ll want to build to scale up your business. Key Relationships to Scale Up Your Business – A Comprehensive List Clients / Buyers / Prospects  Users Payers Multi-sided Markets Internal Team  Interns An assistant Employees Outsourced Help   Accountant, …

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10 Tips To Find The Best Business Consultant In Los Angeles

A business consultant is an integral part of a small business. Apart from helping to manage SEO efforts, a business consultant also helps with accounting, content production, asset development and expansion of personnel skills. A business consultant is essentially an external expert who can help solve internal business problems. A good consultant is an indispensable resource for a small business because he/she brings skill, knowledge, experience and process to help an entrepreneur achieve business goals and objectives. This is why it is pertinent to find a business consultant who can serve your needs. Finding the right consultant can be a …

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How To Make a Business Growth And Actionable Marketing Plan

Having a healthy business growth is the dream of many, if not all entrepreneurs. After all the investment in both our time and money,of course, we will want it to grow bigger and bigger. Although in any business, there are a lot of aspects, departments, and teams which each have its own respective function, arguably marketing will be the most important in solidifying a business’s growth. Thus, a great marketing plan and a great execution are highly essential. In this article, we will discuss how to build and execute an actionable marketing plan, and how to utilize it to drive …