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Frederick Welk
Frederick Welk is a CEDF business advisor and serves as director of education and communications. Before joining the organization, he spent more than 30 years in specialty retailing and franchise development, operating his own company for 23 years.
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What does it take to succeed in business?
Previously I have written about my conclusions in Five Disciplines of Our Most Profitable Clients. Not everyone...
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Someday you’ll thank Congress
Santa may have come late this year to small business owners but he finally arrived Dec. 27...
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Are small businesses missing out on advertising?
An article in the Wall Street Journal recently reported that U.S. digital advertising for the first time...
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Can your employees figure out what’s right?
We recently featured a webinar about establishing an ethics program and why this is important, even for...
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No escape from the fatal flaws
Previously I’ve written about five fatal flaws that I’ve seen that commonly causing small business demise. One...
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How are you going to compete?
There are really only three ways that a company can compete: cost, innovation, or customer intimacy. Let’s...
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Let’s be optimistic about disaster debt
The Last of the Spirits, from Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story...
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Don’t be a chicken when recruiting
In the space of a few months the COVID crisis has brought the country from record low...