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Growing a Business

3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Use Their Community to Grow Their Business

A local network is a great resource to help founders propel their business, if they use it is correctly.

Marketing

5 Steps to Creating a Loyalty Building Strategy for Your Business

Building loyalty takes lots of time and patience, but these tips could help streamline the process.

Starting a Business

How Entrepreneurs Can Succeed Outside of Silicon Valley

With startups popping up all over the U.S., here is how to make the most of your local community.

Starting a Business

6 Ways to Grow a Startup Community in Your Own Backyard

Great ideas and great companies can and should start anywhere. Here are some ways local leaders can foster thriving startup communities.

Thought Leaders

3 Ways Startup Communities Can Attract and Keep the Right Talent

Often emerging entrepreneurial communities say they need capital to thrive, but it is the talent, not the money, they need to succeed.

Growth Strategies

How To Hold A Conference People Love

Is holding a community-driven conference worth it? The short answer is yes.

Business News

Here's What Brands Can Learn From Hillary's Grassroots 'Differentiator'

How political campaigns find and energize volunteers is a model for finding brand evangelists from among your best customers.

Growing a Business

Leaders Succeed When They Go Where Their Fear Tells Them to Avoid

Performing artists believe their professional growth relies on taking the roles that scare them most. Business leaders, take note.

Branding

Rocket Launch Yourself to Celebrity Status Online

Your cult-like online following will vanish if you stop creating engaging content.

Social Media

Another Effective Way Facebook Helps Grow Your Business

Groups enable you to extend your organic reach, workshop your material and establish yourself as a thought leader.

Leadership

Does Your Business Need a Popcorn Manager?

When we hired individuals with developmental disabilities to fill nontraditional work roles, our team learned lessons in understanding and purpose that made us stronger as a company.

Buying / Investing in Business

The Unusual Way This Startup Found Funding

The Initial connection may not happen in an office. This startup went looking for backers on their own turf.

Data & Recovery

Ousted Reddit Employees Form a Rival, Less Toxic Community Site

It's the latest example of staffers who were let go or quit but believe they can do it better.

Business News

Are You a Lone Wolf?

Consider how having a team might be helpful to you.

Growing a Business

The 'Entrepreneur's Obligation': Investing in Your Startup Ecosystem

Helping local small businesses isn't just the right thing to do. It's good for business.