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One of our customers was just named Entrepreneur of the Week by Inc.com, the online version of Inc Magazine.
We love to see our small-biz customers grow and prosper — it’s why we’re here. Congratulations, John!
Andrew Field is President of PrintingForLess.com, known by its thousands of happy customers as "America’s Print Shop." He works and lives [...]

If you read the title and are still reading, you must have salespeople in your company.
For all of us who interview, hire, train, coach, and manage salespeople, Seth Godin’s recent blog post reflects what I have thought for years. He doesn’t use the phrase "service heart mindset" but that is another way of looking at [...]

Who’s going to eBay Live! this year? Who’s been before? What did you think?

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The cool thing about annual events that you’ve blogged about in previous years is that you can revisit them – that is, if they were any good. Last year as The NCAA Basketball tournament kicked off I wrote this blog. As I reviewed what I wrote, I decided that it is good and worth another [...]

No matter what business you’re in, whether it be eBay, a restaurant, a magazine, or really any business in the world, you need to network with other entrepreneurs to help you become successful!
Last night, we held our second monthly meeting for Club Entrepreneur, a rapidly expanding organization that encourages the free exchange of ideas and [...]

No business is an island. But while we focus heavily on our customers and employees, we sometimes forget another key stakeholder: our vendors.
An unfortunate discovery yesterday reminded me that it is our job to communicate our expectations to our vendors clearly and unambiguously, and their job to execute crisply. If we are sloppy in our [...]

The NCAA Basketball Tournament – “March Madness” – is one of those annual events that is ripe for strengthening your business network. The tourney kicks off this week with daytime games all across the country on Thursday and Friday. Many people will take the two days off and many, many more will be sneaking peaks [...]

Nobody needs a drill. What they need is a hole. The drill is merely the means to the end.
In our business, nobody needs brochures or postcards. What they need is to grow their business by communicating more effectively with their customers and prospects.
Nobody needs what you sell. What they need is what your product or [...]

Want to be successful selling on eBay? These 5 tips for eBay selling are a good starting point for your eBay business.
1) Understand your eBay selling costs of doing business
eBay selling is not as simple as some people make it out to be. Your are running a complicated business, so treat it that way. Learn [...]