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Frederick Welk
Frederick Welk is a CEDF business advisor and serves as director of business education and business development. 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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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...
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Twelve tips for getting a small business loan
Understanding how things look from the lender’s point of view can help prepare a small business for...
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Without cash, your business is as good as closed
Businesses this March quickly went from normal to cautious to a standstill. No wonder small business owners...
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COVID-19: What about customer deposits?
I've been taking calls from business owners worried about conflicts with customers over deposits for services they...
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It’s high time you learned SEO basics
Nate Berger of KnockMedia in New Haven provided an excellent introduction to the world of Search Engine...
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It’s the leader not the concept
The mythology of American entrepreneurship goes something like this. You research a problem that startlingly nobody has...
