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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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Can you really withhold price information?
The internet age has disrupted so much about pricing of products and services. In decades past, price...
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Is there such a thing as too much capital?
It’s not unusual for a borrower to submit a loan proposal to a bank or a community...
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Can you really finance a business on social media?
It was probably inevitable that the tried and true friends and family approach to small business financing...
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How will your customers ever forgive you?
It’s pretty easy to throw stones at airlines nowadays, what with stories of passengers being insulted, beaten...
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Run your business like a champion
Among the many offerings of CEDF’s business advisory services as explained on our website is this phrase:...
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If I’m profitable, where did my cash go?
This time of year small business owners who only infrequently take a glance at their financial statements...
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He ran a big company like a small one
I used to snicker in journalism school when our professor explained that the obituary section was one...
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How do you handle an employee’s big mistake?
There’s a well-worn business story, likely worked over by the internet to the level of urban legend....
