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3 Tips for Updating Your Marketing Plan for the Coming Year

If you’re looking to grow your business into new areas and demographics this year, or even if you’re just wanting to get a greater slice of your market share—and who isn’t?—then you’re going to want to take a hard look at your marketing efforts. The time and energy you put into marketing, whether it’s traditional marketing or online marketing, is going to be what gets you cresting over the hill into new markets.

Creating marketing plan that works

So to help you make that trek a little easier on yourself, here are three tips for recalculating your marketing plan for the coming year.

Recap How Last Year’s Marketing Went

You can’t very well know where you need to go unless you know where you’ve been.…

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5 Tips for Converting a Skill Into a Small Business Practice

There are billions of people in the world who feel like they are cogs in someone else’s wheel. And then there are those who do something about it. These are people who somehow attempt the small business angle. And, if you already have a skill, there’s no time like the present to see how well that would convert into something profitable.

Businesswoman achieving success

If you are thinking about converting a particular skill of yours into a small business practice, consider the following five tips to help you organize your mind – think about the health care route possibilities, learn to create an online craft business, trying virtual work like editing from a small office, making sure you understand tax differences, and looking for stories from people who have made similar decisions.…

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5 Reasons to Have an Office Space for Your Small Business

Growing a small business can be an incredibly difficult and rewarding process. One thing necessary for this process is an effective workspace. Now, even though you may have started your business in your basement, you will need a more professional looking space to facilitate further growth. Knowing what you need and finding it is an entirely new process of itself. Included here are a few reasons you should upgrade your small business to your own office space.

Office space at downtown Vancouver

Benefit from a Central Location

Many people prefer to live in the outskirts, or suburbs, of a town. This is perfect for raising a family, but may not be the ideal location to grow a business.…

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Tips For Starting Your Own Medical Practice

Entrepreneurship is well rewarded in the medical field.  If you are strongly competent in your field and know how to take care of business, you could really do well for yourself by owning your own practice.  Sometimes it’s hard for us to know where to start in the beginning, though.  There’s no shame in following the path of others to a successful ending.  Here are a few tips that will help smooth out the rough edges of your journey into business ownership.

Doctor running a medical practice

Education is key

Without a good education under your proverbial belt, you won’t be able to gain a solid reputation in the medical field. …

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