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Small Business Saturday Is America’s Economic Engine

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Small Business Saturday is indeed American’s economic engine. Outside of the industrial revolution which gave birth to big business, small businesses have always been the economic engine. Small businesses reaped $5.7 billion in 2013. 1,450 neighborhoods supported the 2013 shopping day. 28 million small businesses exist in the US.

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What's Fueling Your Leadership Engine?

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Remember the story about the Little Engine? Would you believe this story can be directly applied to fueling your own leadership engine? Each of us as leaders are our own little engine. What fuels our leadership engine is our emotions, our experiences and our expectations. Many of us are familiar with this childhood story.

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Today’s Marketing for Small Business Goes Beyond Awards

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During the last five years, I have had numerous clients who paid thousands of dollars to marketing experts for websites that would deliver high traffic due to being search engine friendly or search engine optimized (SEO). Yet this website including this business and sales blog usually receives far more traffic.

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Are You Ready for SEO Marketing?

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For many in mid-size to small businesses, search engine optimization marketing. Hopefully, your small business will react better than the majority of small businesses who still lack a website less alone a search engine friendly one. Hear the acronym SEO along with marketing and what comes to mind? Share on Facebook.

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Business Surprise and You

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Finally, one overriding business surprise was Babette’s belief we are all engineers. As someone who believes everyone was in sales, this concept was very easy for me to embrace because she returned to the root of the word engineer.

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Small Business Innovators Truly Are the Few Not the Many

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By now most would think that all small businesses would have a website and that website would be search engine friendly. Yet according to the US Census Bureau , approximately 75% of over 14,400,000 small businesses do not have a website.

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Sales Leadership – The Talent of Persistence

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Persistence for many may return to the childhood favorite story of the Little Red Engine that mentally told himself “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” ” This little engine pulled far more and did far more than what was expected from him. Credit www.sxc.hu.