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Growing a Business

5 Ways Service Companies Can Be Innovative

Much public love goes to product companies, but service providers can also be imaginative and exciting.

Growing a Business

10 Ways to Keep Making Your Clients Happier and Happier

Research and common sense agree. The least expensive and most effective marketing is retaining the clients you already have.

Business News

11 Startups That Will Let You Enjoy a Life of Leisure

These budding companies can make you feel like a king without ever leaving home.

Growing a Business

How (and Why) to Pivot From Services to Products

Service businesses have an inherent flaw: they're hard to scale. It's far easier to build and grow a sustainable product business.

Growing a Business

To Be a Successful Service Company, Shift Your Focus to Tech

This pivot from service to tech is a strategy more firms are adopting. And those that do will experience a competitive edge.

Growing a Business

How Mobile Payment Apps Are Energizing Businesses That Live On Cash Flow

Instant payment can free small businesses from the worry of unpaid invoices, making it likelier more will thrive.

Branding

Why Traditional Branding Is Useless for Service Providers

If you are not likely to generate a client through an Internet search or advertisement, but do so through a connection, take a guess as to where you should be spending your time.

Growing a Business

The 7 Critical Success Factors for a Services Business

Unlike with products, whether your business thrives depends almost entirely on you and your skills.

Growing a Business

Hey, Service Professionals: It's Time to Modernize

You've probably experienced this before. You need some repair work done, but it's difficult to find someone for the job. Then other inconveniences stack up.

Business News

Amazon May Launch a Local Services Marketplace

Amazon is reportedly looking beyond media, apparel, furniture and food -- and putting the call out to babysitters, handymen, birthday clowns and plumbers.

Leadership

Smiling Is Contagious. Customers (and Your Business) Thrive on It.

This simple act helps creates a jovial base of clients who will continue using a service and feeling good about it.

Business Ideas

105 Service Businesses to Start Today

With this many ideas to choose from, you have no excuse not to get started today with your own service business.