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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 do you set the right price?
There are basically only two methods for determining the selling price of a product or service? You...
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Do you have brand ambassadors?
The internet has changed so much about we used to think of as simple advertising. Giving individual...
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Do you want more sales or more profit?
If we asked a room full of business owners to raise their hands if they wanted to...
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What does today’s consumer want?
Business owners who survived The Great Recession are recognizing that the consumers who were influenced by the...
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Gather the courage to deal with uncertainty
I wish I could say that all of our CEDF borrowers experience smooth sailing after they close...
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What’s the proper use of profit?
It might seem like a peculiar question, but deciding what to do with profit happens to be...
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What exactly is an accountant?
A recent article in Inc. magazine online discusses six excellent concepts – three things you should never ask your...
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Five fatal flaws of some unfortunate clients
Writing last month’s Chalkboard article, "Five Disciplines of our Most Profitable Clients," inevitably got me thinking about the darker days...
