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New Business Tips: Part 2

Are you looking for ways to get customers for your new business? Here are some tips! 1. Talk to everyone you know about your new business. More than a few will take an interest and want to buy from you. 2. Send out letters or postcards. Send 10 per week. You can get names and [...]

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How to Turbo-Charge Your Business

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. I am here to help you increase your small business success by providing you with some business coaching. What would it be like if you could keep all your employees happy, have a great working life and make more money? For most of us that sounds [...]

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Breaking Business Plans Down to Smaller Steps

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. I am here to help you increase your small business success by providing you with some business coaching. Most of us know what a business plan is. We know that it includes product information, marketing strategies, financing, facilities and a customer profile. Yet how many of [...]

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Part Two: Personal Finances

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. This blog is part two of Personal Finances, which means we will be focusing on the last three rules for treating your personal finances like a business. Again, keep in mind that these rules are geared to help you become financially stable as a person just [...]

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Part One: Personal Finances

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. In this blog I want to focus on finances. Budgets and personal finances are not most people’s favorite topics, and certainly not one of mine. As a business mentor and small business owner I know firsthand that people tend to concentrate so much on their businesses [...]

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Do I know it like the back of my hand….?

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. I want to talk about how to reach small business success all on your own. Sadly, when you are a small business owner you don’t usually get the opportunity to work with venture capitalists. Venture capitalists are people that will finance your business, kind of like [...]

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Don’t Run Out!

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. In order to reach small business success you must think about cash flow and finances for your small business. With that being said I want to mention that there are actually ways to effectively manage your cash flow. As a business mentor myself I will warn [...]

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Get Me Off of This Thing!

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. I know from personal experience and through all of the business coaching that I have done that small businesses tend to reach a plateau after the hype of startup wears off. But I am here to tell you to get off that plateau and get your [...]

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Uh Oh, I Need More $

Uh Oh, I Need More $

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business. My question for you is, “what do you do if you lose your main source of income?” I want to share with you some business planning tips to ensure that you will always have income coming in. How? Well, it’s quite simple; you will want to [...]

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I’m Feelin’ Lucky

I’m Feelin’ Lucky

This is Mark Stowers with Increase My Small Business and I want to talk about luck. Are you a lucky individual? I will admit I am pretty lucky most of the time, but when it comes to my small business and profits I never leave anything to luck. Large and successful businesses don’t make gigantic [...]

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