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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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What can a cow teach you about business models?
In the conventional world of Main Street small business, the model has been virtually the same since...
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Choose your competition wisely
Not being a coffee drinker, I indulge in the guilty pleasure of buying a $1 fountain diet...
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One theory and five steps to improve your customer service
Early in my career I worked in the office of a specialty retailer that had an “exchange...
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Five disciplines of our most profitable clients
Working as a business advisor provides exposure to different company sizes, a range of industries, and a...
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The road to profit is paved with budget discipline
One of the great joys and motivations of owning a small business is freedom. You are free...
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Reputation monitoring demands constant attention
Businesses have always faced threats of whispers, rumors, false claims or complaints that tell only half the...
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Small business borrowing: Easy, fast, affordable – choose two
Even as the nation recovered slowly from the Great Recession, commercial bank lending policies for businesses with...
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Ready to do more for your community? What’s your CSR plan?
What used to be considered, civic spirit, self-interest, or just plain neighborliness on the part of the...
