Business Resources
How to Find Partner Businesses in Your Community Some business partnerships are easy to predict. A wedding planner works with a florist. A Realtor partners with a mortgage lender. A gym connects with a nutritionist. Those relationships make sense, but they’re also the relationships everyone else in the industry has already considered…even your competitors. Sometimes…
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Do You Really Have to Answer Every Email? A customer emails. An employee sends a message. A vendor texts “quick question.” You drop everything and respond immediately because that’s what a responsible business owner does. You’re accessible, attentive and on top of things. You’re also halfway through six different tasks and making meaningful progress on…
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5 Networking Mistakes You Don’t Even Realize You’re Making Walk into almost any chamber networking event and you’ll see people are chatting in small groups, exchanging business cards, grabbing coffee, and making introductions. Some attendees leave with new relationships that turn into referrals, partnerships, and customers. Others leave with a pocket full of business cards,…
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Being Findable Online Just Changed a Little. Here’s Your Checklist. Have you paid attention to search results recently? Not yours, but the results you receive when you search for something. If so, you’ve probably noticed Google summarizes sources to give a quick, general answer before listing any page results. And it doesn’t stop there. People…
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Your Best Customers Probably Don’t Know Everything You Offer You might think your best customers already know everything your business does. After all, they’ve bought from you before. They follow you on social media. They’re on your email list. They’ve been in your store, visited your website, or worked with your team. Maybe they’ve event…
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Your Business Has Changed. Has Your Insurance? When you first opened your business, you probably checked a long list of boxes. Business license? Done. Website? Yep. Insurance? Handled. But here’s the thing about your businesses-you’re probably not the same business today as you were when you opened. Not if you’re successful. You’ve had to change,…
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