Posts by Deborah Sweeney
4 Characteristics All-Star Employees Have in Common
As we enter the holiday season, I can’t help but take a moment to express a tremendous amount of gratitude for my team. From the team members that have been working with us for over a decade to those newly onboarded over the last year, everyone has been bringing their A-game to work—regardless of physical…
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How Do You Build Your Team Up?
The way we work is going through historic, radical changes. Seemingly overnight, the entire world learned to adapt to remote work as necessitated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. An experiment in working from home that felt like it would only last a few weeks in March 2020 is, for many, approaching nearly two years as…
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Share Your Passion to Grow Your Business
Once your business is established, it’s time to think about growth. And to achieve growth, you have to have the right tools to get there, tools that will make it easy to share your passion with other people! Think about all the different things a business needs today to grow: Customer relationship management Email marketing…
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Moving From the Startup Stage to the Growth Stage
One of the biggest leaps for your business is when you shift from the startup phase – taking care of everything you need to do just to get off the ground – to the growth stage, where you’re focused on all the different ways to reach more people and operate more effectively and efficiently. Oftentimes,…
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3 Key Ingredients for Successful Business Meetings
Recently, I was reading an article about Milind Pant’s unforgettable meeting in the back kitchen of a Pizza Hut. Pant, now the CEO of Amway, was then the chief marketing officer of India for Yum! Brands. Yum! operates Pizza Hut. Part of Pant’s onboarding process included training at a Pizza Hut store to learn more…
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Launching a Startup is a Milestone Moment
A few weeks ago, I was reading an article in The New York Times about business showers. A business shower is an idea that piggybacks off a traditional baby shower event. Many people have friends that are celebrating pregnancies and the upcoming births of their children with baby showers. If you’re entrepreneurially minded, why not…
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How to Be a Successful Serial Entrepreneur
Running multiple businesses is not for the faint of heart—doing so requires a lot of work and dedication. But if you’re driven, motivated, and passionate about what you do and who you do it for, serial entrepreneurship might just be the next step to take your business in. With great power comes great responsibility and…
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From Sole Proprietor to LLC: Here’s How to Make the Transition
One aspect of entrepreneurship that is not often discussed is that the legal entity formed for a business at its offset does not need to be its formation forever. Entrepreneurs have the option to change structures that best fit their needs, and many begin as sole proprietors. For those that are ready to make the…
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Now Is the Time to Start Your Business
In May 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau released data detailing seasonally adjusted business application and formation statistics for the month of April 2021. Business applications for tax IDs, also known as employer identification numbers (EINs), had seen 487,939 filings. This is an increase of 8.9% compared to March 2021. An increase in tax ID filings…
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Is Your Business Ready to Become a Certified B Corp? Ask These 3 Questions
Recently, nonprofit organization B Lab shared a quick note about B Corporation Certification Requirements on their website. The note mentions that B Lab is currently experiencing “overwhelming interest” in B Corp Certification. The review process for Certified B Corps is now expected to take anywhere between 6 to 10 months to complete. Certified B Corporations…
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