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The Top Challenges of Small Businesses

Six Disciplines

Even though small businesses collectively generate $5 trillion in sales in the U.S., the biggest challenge of an individual small business is “survival.” 80% of all new business start-ups are out of business within five years. All small businesses face them. What makes it so hard?

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The Top Challenges of Small Businesses

Six Disciplines

Even though small businesses collectively generate $5 trillion in sales in the U.S., the biggest challenge of an individual small business is “survival.” 80% of all new business start-ups are out of business within five years. All small businesses face them. What makes it so hard?

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

An EPMO has the same responsibilities as a traditional PMO, but with an additional key high-level goal: to align all project, program, and portfolio activities with an organization’s strategic objectives. Some are better suited for small businesses and others for larger organizations.

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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

Shamia was previously GM of product at SAP’s small business solutions group before becoming the acting COO at EchoSign after it was acquired by Adobe. “We see an 85% call success rate (as measured by expected business outcome) across customers and use cases.” ” Automating customer interactions. .

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Follow the Green Lights – Small Business Success is a Mixture of Strategy and Intuition

Strategy Driven

Work is life and life is work for small business owners. It is not always easy to balance the demands of business ownership and living a powerful purpose driven life. Small business ownership is a life and a lifestyle that the owner chooses. Simply: Know what you want from small business ownership.

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How to Turn Disagreements into Great Decisions for Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

The first thing we cover at our two-day strategic planning session is our ‘Rules of Engagement’ It’s posted on an oversized sheet and taped to the wall. When we have discussions, I usually say “We can be hard on our business or our competitors would be more than happy to do the work.” They were right.

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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

Businesses spend so much time on momentary pieces of their puzzles that they neglect long-term Strategic Planning and miss potential successes. Costs of band aid surgery and make-good work cost six times that of planning for business on the front end. Business clubs. The Better Business Bureau.