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Ask the experts: Use marketing to help with growth
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Statistically speaking: Cellphone ‘cramming’ charges
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How small business owners handle phone solicitors
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Top-selling business books
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Columnist: Millennials daring, taking risks as entrepreneurs
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Upcoming: Small business networking events
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Triangle companies maximize social media results
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Mobile businesses reel in profits
The mobile marketplace is an opportunity to expand a customer base beyond one set location, reduce overhead expenses and differentiate your business.
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Backstory: Treasure hunt turns into team-building business
Dennis Putnam turned a childhood treasure hunt into Motley Clue Adventures, a Holly Springs-based, one-man business providing team-building experiences that encourage participants to pool their talents and use a bag of props, puzzles and clues from...
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Column: Smoffice, Durham, Klein win big
In April, the Durham Chamber of Commerce took the prize for the Most Unconventional Economic Development Project award at the World Chambers Congress in Doha, Qatar. The win was for the Smoffice (World’s Smallest Office), a six-month experiment in 2012 that gave a startup—the Makery...
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Backstory: Building a solid business, one green lawn at a time
Keeping grass green is easy and Brad Sutton has the lawn care company to prove it.
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Statistically speaking: Entrepreneurs are confident in business profitability
The recent New Business Founders’ Outlook on the Economy and Hiring from Kauffman and LegalZoom found that in the first quarter of 2013, 84 percent of entrepreneurs were confident that their businesses would be more profitable in the next 12 months.
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Ask the experts: To stay in business, avoid these pitfalls
Starting a small business is risky. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, approximately 50 percent of new businesses last five years or more, and only about 33 percent last 10 years or more. Shop Talk reporter Virginia Bridges reached out to David Grant, Raleigh SCORE chairman, who...
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How small business owners spend their downtime
Shop Talk Editor Jessaca Giglio reached out to area small business owners about how they spend their downtime during a typical workday.
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Here’s what business books are selling
Here’s what’s on the best-seller list at 800-CEO-READ.
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Upcoming: Small business networking events
Here’s what’s happening and when on the small business circuit.
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Backstory: Teacher molds career out of ceramic gnomes and glazes
Barbara Morgan’s basement is lined with shelves of unadorned ceramic figures, including gnomes, Santa Clauses and lighthouses, ready to be personalized with glazes and stains. Morgan, 81, has collected more than 20,000 molds after 50 years of teaching about decorating and selling ceramics...
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Reach out to get government work
Those Fields with experience in government contracts and related work said the public marketplace can help diversify a small business’ customer base and smooth out cash flow, as public and private spending often are often countercyclical.
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Column: NC help leads to TechStars startup accelerator
Chapel Hill resident Coleman Greene believes he’s the first in the state to be accepted to TechStars, the Boulder-based network with six locations of startup accelerators. Thousands have applied; 900 for the summer in Chicago alone.
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