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Managing Millennials in Your Small Business

August 14, 2019 // by Rhonda Abrams

Want to succeed in growing your small business? Then one skill you’d be wise to learn is how to manage and motivate millennials. After all, millennials—those born roughly between 1980-2000—are now America’s largest demographic group. While the average age of a small business owner is 50.3 years, many of your employees, not to mention customers, …

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Reducing Spam Calls in your Small Business

July 31, 2019 // by Rhonda Abrams

I get a ton of spam. No, not the processed lunch meat—unsolicited junk phone calls, or robocalls. These junk phone calls scare people into believing they’re in trouble with the IRS or sell them scam-ridden vacation packages. While, as an individual, these spam phone calls are annoying, for a small business, they’re downright expensive. For …

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Focus on Employees to Build your Small Biz

July 17, 2019 // by Rhonda Abrams

When I started my small business, I was committed to treating my employees well. As an employee, I’d worked for bosses who took their employees for granted, and I knew how de-motivating that could be. I knew that I didn’t want to be that kind of boss. Even more importantly, in a small business, your …

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Time for a Small Business Declaration of Independence

July 3, 2019 // by Rhonda Abrams

Small business owners: King George III had nothing on you as a tyrant. When the colonists in America rebelled against that despotic (and crazy) English King, they were fighting to take charge of their own lives. They wanted to set the rules, not be dictated to. But as a small business owner, are you really …

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Women Small Business Owners – Pay Yourself More!

May 6, 2019 // by Rhonda Abrams

Just about everyone knows this tough fact: employed women earn less than men—about 80 cents for every dollar. That’s one reason many women start a small business or become self-employed. After all, when you can set your own fees, you’ll make the same as men, right? Not so fast. Here’s a disappointing finding: self-employed women …

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