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• 20 Key Character Traits
  A list of 20 key character traits you must look for when hiring and training employees. Your business success depends on your employees. If you cannot describe what you want in an employee you will never hire the right one.
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• 40 Interview Questions
  Character in employees is vital to the success of your business. Here are 40 job interview questions that will help you to find employees of high character.
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• A Beginner's Guide To Social Networking
  Social networking skills are key for your marketing success. Learn the basics of social media here.
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• A Business Idea Right For Me
  A business idea will only succeed if its right for you. Learn four key requirements to a great business idea.
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• Steven Schlagel
  My name is Steven Schlagel and I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with over 30 years experience in small business consulting, coaching and teaching.
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• Adobe Products
  Adobe is the premier tool for processing digital photographs. Lightroom was specifically designed for photographers. Do incredible fixes and adjustments to your photos with ease.
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• Advanced Social Media
  You've taken the beginning steps in social media to creating an online social presence. Here are some ways to streamline the process.
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• An Introduction to SEO
  Search Engine Optimization is part art, part science. Don't let the term confuse you. SEO is simply the mechanics and tools of helping seekers find your business site via search engines like Google.
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• Are You a Wage Slave?
  You have a choice. It is your choice alone. Start a business or remain a wage slave. What will you choose?
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• Small Business Articles
  Many small business articles on issues commonly found in business and innovative ideas on how to solve them.
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• Avoiding Mistakes in Employee Motivation
  Employee motivation is a big part of the success or failure of your business. Knowing how to motivate employees is a key to that success. Here are some common failures.
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• Basic Blogging
  Blogging is a great way to get more customers and keep the ones you have. See how easy it really is.
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• Basics of Email Marketing
  Internet marketing can be complex and email marketing is one piece of that puzzle. You have to have a list of contacts and you want these contacts engaged and interested in advance and you need to know how to do that.
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• Before the Teleclass Call
  Teleclass calls require a little preparation by everyone. Take these steps so that you will have a positive learning experience.
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• Better Ideas on Business Leverage
  Business leverage is key to success. The secret is leverage is not confined to debt. Learn how to use leverage to your advantage, safely.
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• Blog
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• Business Email Etiquette
  All communication is about marketing. Business email etiquette is the foundation of good communication and excellent marketing.
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• Business Funding
  Business funding doesn't have to involve borrowing money. Learn how to run your business without going into debt and becoming a debt slave.
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• Business Incorporation or LLC Formation
  Business incorporation or LLC formation? Choosing the right form of entity for your business is vital. There are liability issues, tax strategies, and asset protection issues to consider.
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• Business Loans the Last Resort
  Business loans ought to be your last resort to funding a business. If you must go into debt consider the alternatives available to minimize your risk.
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• Business Plan Template
  A business plan template to help you quickly and effectively create a winning busness plan by completing our simple business plan template.
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• Business Startup Ideas That Work
  Find your best business startup ideas with these techniques.
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• Business Valuation
  A business valuation is vital when buying or selling a business. Learn what is a stake and how to protect your interest with a business appraisal.
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• Business Writing Improvement Tips
  Good business writing skills are one of the best ways to stand out from your competitors. There are some easy ways you can improve your writing.
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• Buy a Business Instead of Starting One
  Buy a business, but know the pitfalls and benefits. Your business success depends upon it.
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• Small Business Coaching
  Small business coaching involves business and personal development and growth. It's about creating accountability, focus, motivation and success in your business and personal life.
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• Small Business Consulting
  Small business consulting involves business and personal development and growth. It's about solving the issues and problems of business and pursuing the opportunities to build value.
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• Contact Steve Schlagel with your questions ...
  Contact Steve Schlagel with your questions on starting or running a small business. He is a small business coach, consultant and teacher with over 30 years experience.
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• Debt Free Funding Opportunities
  There are funding opportunities that don't involve debt. Learn about the alternatives to debt. Avoid becoming a debt slave with practical debt free alternatives.
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• Defining Your Market
  An ideal customer and a value proposition that meets the customers needs or solves their problem is a requirement for business success. Find it and you will know your ideal market.
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• Do Your Potential Customers Forget About You?
  Following up with potential customers is more than just a process – it’s an art. In order to be effective, you need to design a follow up system, and stick to it, EVERY DAY!
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• Email Deliverability Tips
  Ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to subscriber inboxes is an increasingly difficult battle in the age of spam filtering. Open and click thru response rates can be dramatically affected due to incorrect spam filter classification.
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• Employee Recruitment
  Employee recruitment is a never ending challenge. The key to success is knowing the character traits you need and actively seeking them in employee interviews.
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• Employee Retention
  Employee retention is vital in todays workplace. Character training and a proper compensation plan are vital to employee recruitment and retension.
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• Evaluating a Business for Sale
  Do not overpay for a business. Do not buy a business that will destroy you. There are several key points in evaluating a business you must know.
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• Facebook or Face Time?
  Journalists mix the words "Facebook" and "Face Time" in article titles looking at the transition from before internet to after internet. In a world going digital, are we losing our ability to interact in person?
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• Free or Low Cost Marketing Tips
  Free or low cost marketing tips may be just be what the doctor ordered. Now is a good time to try some of the new ways to market and expand your reach to potential customers.
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• Getting Started With Videocasting
  Business owners have always had many avenues for communicating their marketing messages to clients, but the newest is videocasting, a powerful use of online video.
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• Small Business Mentoring Program
  Most small business owners are trapped in their own job. Escape and build a business that stands on its own. Free yourself to pursue your personal goals and dreams through our mentoring program.
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• How a Business Consultant Adds Value
  A business consultant can add value to you and your business. Like a doctor and a personal trainer, a business consultant can restore and maintain your business health.
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• Classes, Coaching or Consulting - How do I Decide?
  How do I decide whether classes, coaching or consulting is what I need to succeed in my business?
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• How to Buy a Business
  Save time and money, lots of it, when you learn how to buy a business that is right for you. Key tips from an experienced valuation professional.
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• How to Conduct an Employee Performance Appraisal
  Conducting a performance appraisal is part of running a successful small business. Learn how to do effective performance appraisals that build your business and motivate your employees.
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• How to Motivate Employees
  Over 70 proven tips on how to motivate employees. Learn about these proven techniques in this eBook by Steven Schlagel.
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• How to Motivate Employees Article
  Motivate employees for business success. Motivated employees please customers and increase business. They also make your life easier as an employer. Learn to motivate.
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• How to Start Business Successfully
  The benefit of knowing how to start a business give you a huge edge over the average person starting a business. Make sure you are in the know.
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• How to Value a Business
  How much is a business worth? Knowing how to value a business in a must, unless you want to pay too much or sell for too little. Learn how to maximize your value.
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• How to Write a Business Plan That Works
  Know how to write a business plan. It will keep you from investing your time and money in a business destined to fail or will confirm a good idea and show it is worthy of your time and money.
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• Improving Communications and Likability
  Relationships, in both your personal and business life, are a key to success. Improving communications is vital. People are more likely to want to do business with someone who is honest and likable.
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• Is a Franchise For You?
  Franchise opportunities can make you successful, and can keep you from making a profit. Can you see the difference?
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• Job Interview Questions
  Tips for interviewing employees to find the best candidates. Character is the key but you must know how to find it during the interview process.
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• Looking to Buy a Business?
  You need to know where to look to find a business for sale. Having many options give you the best chance to buy the right business and enjoy business success.
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• Making a Business Plan
  Making a business plan can often mean the difference between success and failure. Don't waste your time or money, do it right.
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• Managing Relationships in Business
  Where people are involved, there are always unique challenges and being successful requires that you manage these relationships well and identify and solve problems early.
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• Marketing Channels
  Understanding your marketing channels makes the difference between success and failure. The more doorways into your business you can create the better. Discover the possibilities.
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• Point and Shoot Video
  Make your own videos simply with these point and shoot video cameras. Flip video is the answer you've been waiting for!
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• Powerful Business Writing
  Most small business owners can't employ full time copywriters so need to discover the secrets of powerful business writing.
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• Your Privacy is Important
  This is the privacy policy of www.my-small-buiness-mentor.com.
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• Recommended Products
  Products for your business that I highly recommend.
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• Reducing Payroll Costs Without Layoffs
  Cutting costs is hard. You don't want to lose anyone - the economy will pick up eventually. How do you cut payroll costs without firing anyone?
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• Resources
  A collection of free resources along with our audio, ebook and teleclasses on a variety of small business topics.
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• Revocable Trust - Estate Planning
  A revocable trust is a great tool that avoids the probate court, speeds up how quickly your children or spouse will receive their inheritance, and eliminates the costs of probate.
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• Selecting Profitable Business Ideas
  Knowing your value proposition and your ideal customer are vital to finding profitable business ideas.
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• Send a File
  Send a file is a way to send large files without the limitations and security issues normally encountered when using email. Please use this tool to send us QuickBooks and other files with our provided password.
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• Site Map
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• Small Business Coaching Programs
  Small business coaching programs offered by Steven Schlagel for your business and personal development and the achievement of your goals.
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• Small Business Consulting Programs
  Small business consulting programs offered by Steven Schlagel for your business and personal development and the achievement of your goals.
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• Small Business Owner Success Traits
  Small business owner success depends upon their skills and talents, character, attitude, passion, and their dedication to learning and adhering to key business principles. Without these traits, you won't succeed.
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• Start a Business From the Ground Up
  To start a business is a high risk activity, unless you have properly planned your business success.
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• Starting a Business With Little or No Cash
  Many people dream of starting a business, but fear they can't for lack of cash. The truth is many people have started a business with little cash through a process called "bootstrapping".
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• Teleclass Calendar
  A calendar of teleclass training programs for small business and self employed owners. Classes designed to solve the problems of small business and build success.
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• Teleclass Course Listing
  These classes are innovative and will help you to build and improve your business while freeing up more of your time for what you enjoy.
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• Teleclass Etiquette
  Teleclass etiquette is vital to ensuring a positive learning experience for all. There are some simple but important rules that we all need to abide by.
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• Steve Schlagel - What Our Clients Say
  Testimonials from clients of Steve Schlagel, CPA, CVA, CFP, JD. Steve is located in Farmington, NM and Durango, CO and works as a CPA, attorney and coach for small business owners.
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• The Power of Mastermind Groups
  The biggest value in working with mastermind groups is the power of many minds working to support your ideas, your goals, your dreams and values. Discover all the benefits.
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• Think Like an Entrepreneur!
  What's your big vision, the one you hesitate to share with anyone? Are you married to your small business, afraid of economic change? Start changing your mentality NOW. Think like an entrepreneur.
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• Tips for Choosing a Business Name
  Choosing a business name is easy if you follow this tips.
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• Tips on Writing Business Letters
  When writing business letters always remember that they are marketing pieces. Every communication you make helps shape positively or damages what others think of you.
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• Business Training
  We need business training with practical answers and solutions to our issues. Going to school isn't an option. Here are short practical teleclasses you can take right from your home or business.
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• Using Press Releases Effectively
  You want a reporter to write about you and they will not if you are writing advertisements. Press releases are short, targeted news stories with a specific purpose.
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• What is a Teleclass
  A teleclass is a great way to get practical and useful information. You can participate from your home or office or anywhere that you have a phone.
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• What's The Difference Between A Small Business Mentor and a Coach?
  Everyone needs that extra help some of the time from someone with greater life and business experience. A small business mentor and coach can increase your chances of personal success.
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• Write Great Sales Letters!
  Sales letters should be part of your marketing arsenal. A strong sales letter can capture your readers attention and excite them about a new product or service.
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• Writing a Marketing Plan
  Writing a marketing plan you willl be less likely to miss out on timely opportunities and will avoid splurging on impulsive expenses that may not be worth the investment.
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• Writing a Simple Business Plan
  A simple business plan is all you need. Just enough to know that your business idea will work, or to convince lenders or investors should you seek their business funding.
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• XSitePro2
  XSitePro 2 is a great tool for the quick and easy creation of custom web sites. Read this review by Steven Schlagel as he tells you of the benefits of this outstanding tool.
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• Your Lifestyle Can Destroy Your Business
  Its easy to destroy your business. Lifestyle choices can do just that. Do you know what the dangers are?
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