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Make Life Simple With One Word

By BJ O'Neal · Add Comment · In Productivity

Some would believe that we’ve become incredibly complicated. Would you agree? Even the “tech tools” that we have available to us have created another job for us……. Yes, they’re helpful – don’t get me wrong. But how many times have you sat on the phone with a tech for one of your computers? Point proven. [...]

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Time Is Money For Small Businesses – How Are You Spending Your Time?

By BJ O'Neal · Add Comment · In Productivity

I’m always researching ways to be more productive and how to better spend my time on tasks and projects. I think with our lifestyle changes over the last 15 years or so, combined with advancements in technology, we simply can’t do things the way we’ve always done them. Those who want to be successful at [...]

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Twitter – Don’t Look Dumb

By BJ O'Neal · Add Comment · In Social Media

Ok, so you want to be a pro a “tweeting”, right? But you feel so awkward sending out a “tweet” to the virtual world. If that’s you, then you’re ahead of the game. There’s a lot of people out there who have no clue what they’re doing in the social media world, and they haven’t [...]

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Sell More By Adding Variety

By BJ O'Neal

People buy more jelly beans when they’re offered an assortment of colors. This is true even if all the jelly beans taste the same. In experiments involving thousands of consumers, researchers at several major universities concluded that the more choices shoppers have, the more they buy. Sometimes buying a product is difficult because of [...]

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Preparing Your Small Retail Business For The Holidays

By BJ O'Neal

Years ago I owned two small retail businesses. I was very young and had little retail sales experience. I wish I had someone who could have spoke into me at the time who could have helped me be much more prepared than I was for the holiday season. We weren’t staffed properly, we didn’t have enough [...]

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6 Steps To Improve Productivity In Your Business

By BJ O'Neal

We’re all looking for ways to be more productive. A lack of productivity can put a drain on your emotions, and more importantly your bank account. Making poor decisions, wasting time, and a lot more can contribute to a lack luster productive business. In the article below, you can learn six simple steps in [...]

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Are You De-Motivating Your Employees?

By BJ O'Neal

Are you dealing with a motivation issue? Studies show that supervisors or managers have the greatest impact on the employee. With that fact, a good place for you to start increasing your employee’s performance is to first review how you may be demotivating your team members. Ways to de-motivate employees De-motivation occurs when an [...]

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Surviving A Slow Economy – With Synergy

By BJ O'Neal

Many business owners are trying to do everything they can possibly think of to survive today’s slow economy. People will ask me what’s the best way to stay in business, despite a lack of consumer spending. While that answer is certainly in the “eye of the beholder”, one significant way to fight this economy [...]

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Always Be Consistent In Your Marketing

By BJ O'Neal

One of the most crucial aspects of branding a small business is that you must be absolutely consistent in your messaging. Every interaction with customers must send the same message. You’re ultimately creating experiences for your customers that build emotional attachments to your company. To many times I see businesses with in-consistent messaging or [...]

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E-Mail Newsletter Can Help Draw More Folks to Your Web Site

By BJ O'Neal

E-mail is a very effective communication tool and smart businesses use it to continually draw attention to their businesses web sites. Many businesses change their Web site content every week and publish a weekly e-mail newsletter that is sent to clients and prospects to inform them of the latest business offerings. If you don’t have the [...]

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