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Managing your reaction to volatility in your business and your investments

Volatility may be a term that causes you to think about the stock market, but it makes...

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Maximum Crowdfunding: The Complete Guide to Raising Capital for Your Business

Businesses are leveraging crowdfunding to raise tens of thousands and even millions of dollars. This webinar covers...

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How to Coach your Employees Without Causing them to Quit

PowerPoint for this presentation.Download Are you not seeing results from your efforts in employee development or performance improvement...

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Entrepreneurism is overrated

Americans have revered the economic freedom of the independent business operator and honored the dignity of small...

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Informative CEDF webinars and recorded seminars you may have missed

Communicating your value to clients & customers

Justine Ickes

Speaking from Your Sweet Spot: Communicating Your Value to Clients & Customers Are you ready to up-level your communication so you can land that new...

How to validate your business idea (Before you jump off into...

Richard Portelance

Many business startup and product introduction disasters are preventable. But unfortunately, the entrepreneur fails to ask the right questions of the right people, in...

How to negotiate with your suppliers

Tom Maier

Successful negotiation with your suppliers requires a combination of emotional intelligence, business intelligence and financial fundamentals. Making a vendor a true business partner takes...

Identifying small business risks and reducing them

Brenda Lewis

It’s goes way beyond having insurance. Businesses face serious threats to their existence whether they operate on Main Street or are startups chasing a potential...

Why do you want to go into business?

Mary Kay Della Camera

Yes, because you want to make some money. But there’s a lot more to it than that. Without even touching on the matter of...

Effective customer communication for business owners and their front-line managers

Jean Mix

What do you or your key managers sound like when you are speaking with your customers? Do you find conversations with clients getting out of...

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Small Business Chalkboard -- Articles to help plan and operate your enterprise

The peculiar mathematics of real influence

Bruce Tulgan

Real influence is the power you have when other people really want to do things for you, make good use of your time, and...

I could have chosen the easier path

Jennifer Avallone

In a recent article, "What does it take to succeed in business?" my CEDF colleague, Frederick Welk, compared five business disciplines related to measurement...

Business woman floating away on a balloon

What does it take to succeed in business?

Someday you’ll thank Congress

Are small businesses missing out on advertising?

Can your employees figure out what’s right?

Covid-19 work from home is a hacker’s paradise

What if I can’t pay my loan?

No escape from the fatal flaws

How are you going to compete?

Let’s be optimistic about disaster debt

Seven strategies for expanding your influence in uncertain times

Don’t be a chicken when recruiting

Will you choose fear or opportunity?

Without cash, your business is as good as closed

Go-to person’s guide to good email hygiene

The opportunity of loss

COVID-19: What about customer deposits?

Emergency legislation brings new employer mandates

negotiating commercial leases & renewals

COVID-19: Negotiate a Rent Abatement or Deferral in your Lease

It’s high time you learned SEO basics

It’s the leader not the concept

Kickstarter may be your best option to raise capital

Give the customers what they want

Where does small business get its capital?

Be ready to wrestle the bear

Could you use the Golden Triplet?

Think like your lender to understand how to land financing

How to win when you’ve lost?

When business credit scores start to matter

Networking might be the wrong approach

How to compete against Amazon

Is revenue-based financing right for you?

$10,000 for your soul

What would your employees say?

Is your selling environment all wrong?

This will be an unforgettable opportunity

Leave the flying to the squirrels

Small Business As Usual podcasts

The art of operating small enterprises and the issues faced by the owners

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Small Business As Usual 21-1 — fortitude

What do you do when you lose 85% of your business? Stephen Richmond of Painting with a Twist in Hartford describes his approach.

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Small Business As Usual 20-6 — diversity, inclusion & equity

Karen Hinds of Workplace Success Group explains why small business owners need to be engaged with diversity, inclusion and equity and how it can...

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Small Business As Usual 20-5 — facing uncertainty

What makes some entrepreneurs better suited for the most emotionally challenging part of business ownership -- uncertainty? Dr. Len Wysocki has insights into the...

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Small Business As Usual 20-4 — building community

Michael Cervellino of Belle Academy had figured out how to deal with COVID-19 long before the pandemic hit through charity events and old fashioned...

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Small Business As Usual 20-3 — preparation for change

As a small business owner, it’s likely you’ll have to deal with change on a daily basis. Ralph Mesite shares how he prepared for...

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Small Business As Usual 20-2 — employee personal problems

Organizational development consultant and author Bruce Tulgan explains you can be be humane, thoughtful and take the right approach to dealing with employees who...

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Small Business As Usual 20-1 — should you go into business?

Lots of people are attracted to owning their own businesses. But not everyone stops to make a truly informed assessment of whether it’s right...

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Small Business As Usual 19-9 — bread saved my life

We've all heard stories about how the challenges of small business ownership cause personal crises. In contrast, Jennifer Acuna, owner of Loafing Around, LLC...

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Small Business As Usual 19-8 — improving cash flow

Cash flow problems have to be the number one problem small business owners face. Michael Mongillo of Eleven Arrows Consulting points out the solutions...