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Starting a Business? You Need to Research Your Number One Asset

Your successful business model might take the form of a side hustle or full-time freelance work. Perhaps you’ve decided to invest in a franchise, or you’ve created an app for today’s hot on-demand marketplace. There...

byDonna M. Cooper

June 17, 2022

11 Top Entrepreneurs Share the Best Advice They’ve Ever Received from a Mentor

Mentors reduce your learning curve by years through mastering the best of wiser, more experienced role models. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here These 11 entrepreneurs share the...

byThe Oracles

May 5, 2021

The Power of Crafting a Brand Story as an Entrepreneur

Gone are the days when the founder of a company was completely faceless and unknown. Over the last decade or so, there has been a greater call for transparency in the way businesses operate. The...

byShannon Threlfall

March 3, 2021

How Smart, Strategic Networking Can Transform Your Business During a Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a proverbial wrench in the day-to-day lives of company founders. For weeks on end, you’ve likely been juggling Zoom meetings, school schedules, family check-ins, squeezing in a workout, time for...

byMelissa Gilbo and Amy Pocsik

September 3, 2020

Event Marketing 101: Why Entrepreneurs Should Embrace the Power of Live Events

In an age of digital communication and remote work, in-person communication still holds immense value. In one study, 95 percent of participants rated face-to-face meetings as essential for long-term business relationships. Another found that face-to-face...

byVictoria Vessella

May 13, 2019

How to Make Your Holiday Content Marketing Stand Out

For many businesses, Q4 is the biggest sales season of the year. You may bring in more business in the final weeks of the year than you do at any other time. Even if you...

bySusan Guillory

December 6, 2018

How and Why to Build Relationships in the Early Stages of Your Startup

I have bad news for you: we’re losing the art of interpersonal communication. In the age of Tinder, Netflix and chilling and sliding into DMs, it’s starting to seem as though real relationships are a...

byFoti Panagio

November 9, 2018

3 Trust-Building Tips Every Entrepreneur Should Take to Heart

At the end of the day, entrepreneurship is the ability to build a business opportunity out of a void in the marketplace. It's a tall order and the reason why so many entrepreneurs rarely do...

byDustin White

October 25, 2018

How to Follow Up With Sales Leads the Right Way

It's a task so many professionals dread, yet it's a critical aspect of running a sustainable business. You may think of following up with leads as a one-time event: you capture a sales lead, wait...

byJustin E. Crawford

May 28, 2018

5 Ways Startups Can Provide Authentic Customer Support

Customer support is in a state of revival, which is a good thing. Companies that lack basic levels of customer service and sympathy for their customers run the risk of being berated online. Bad experiences...

byEric Griffing

May 4, 2018

6 Tips for Maintaining Positive Employee Engagement

Encouraging the best out of your workforce is a learning curve and one that should be met with as much enthusiasm and caution from both management and employees. With a reported 70 percent of employees...

byRebecca D'Souza

June 18, 2016

Flexing your leadership style

Prominent executive coaches and leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing” — the art of flexing your personal leadership style to more effectively lead people who are...

byMelissa Fisher

September 29, 2014

Small Business Internet Relationships

How tuned into this internet thing are you really? Ok, so just by being a blog reader you're at a certain level of internet savvy-ness (is that even a word?). But do you take it...

byJoel Welsh

November 14, 2006