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Easy Way to Get Cash into Your Business or Consulting Practice

by The Obvious Expert on July 24, 2009

But an often overlooked option is to get money from your clients and customers in advance of work, service, or goods you will be providing to them. Instead of going to a lender to borrow money against the income you anticipate in the future, why not skip that step and try to get your hands on that future income now?

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Game Plan for Entrepreneurs and Businesses in a Troubled Economy

by The Obvious Expert on July 8, 2009

And even if you were an eighteen-year-old entrepreneurial prodigy in 1930, today you are a 97-year-old entrepreneurial legend who hasn’t been through an economic depression during a time when the business is built or broken by relational marketing on the internet.

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The 5 Types of People Who Will Buy What You Sell

by The Obvious Expert on July 2, 2009

But no matter what type of business you are in or what goods or services you offer, all of the people with whom you interact are really a consumer on some stage of his or her developmental journey that hopefully leads to a long, happy relationship with you.Your job is to be the Sherpa, with the task of leading, herding, cajoling, inspiring, and enticing them to continue along the path.

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When Your Business Means More than Money

June 30, 2009

It is hard not to focus on the bottom line. If you are a sole practitioner, a consultant, a coach, small business person, or entrepreneur, it can be really stressful when the only boss who can give you a raise is you, and as your own chief financial officer, you have to tell yourself, “No, the business just can’t afford it.”

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Can You Get Your Brand into the Dictionary

June 29, 2009

The reason blogs and websites directed toward business people, consultants, entrepreneurs, and coaches, are using the phrase obvious expert as part of their vernacular is because it is one of, if not the, best descriptor ever conceived for conveying what it takes to be the top of the mind, go-to, specialist in your field.

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Why You Should Link to Guy Kawasaki Blog, Just as Soon as You Link to The Obvious Expert Blog

June 28, 2009

If you write a blog, you should never be afraid to talk about other blogs. It’s not a competition; it’s a community.

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Facebook is Calling Consultants, Coaches, Entreprenuers, and all You Little Guys Who Think Big

June 26, 2009

If you have somehow missed out on the buzz about Facebook Vanity URLs, here is the deal: Up until now, your Facebook profile URL or Fanbook Fan Page URL was too long and too abstract for people to easily remember. Because of this, URLs were hard to share and too unwieldy to become part of your branding package.
BUT all that changed with the opportunity to switch to Vanity URLs.

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More about “The Call of the Entrepreneur”

June 25, 2009

Their insights are truly remarkable and may very well change FOREVER the way you look at your own career as a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or bold businessperson.

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Why Being an Entrepreneur Makes You Feel so Good

June 24, 2009

But the film is not a critique of entrepreneurs; far from it. Instead, Rev. Robert A Sirico of the Acton Institute likens the calling that leads visionary men and women to become entrepreneurs to something that is almost spiritual, comparing entrepreneurship to being like a religion in the devotion it inspires.

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What Does the Small Business, Consultant, or Coach Do When a Client Stops Paying?

June 23, 2009

In a money-tight economy, what do you do as the small businessperson, consultant, coach, or entrepreneur when that client, who you worked so hard to get and worked even harder to take care of, stops paying his or her bill?

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