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Set a Budget, But Avoid These 4 Pitfalls
Setting a budget is key to your business’ growth and prosperity, but it’s important that you do it right if you want to reap the benefits.
Setting a budget is key to your business’ growth and prosperity, but it’s important that you do it right if you want to reap the benefits.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the New Marketing Experience at the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago. The day was filled with thought leadership with some super interesting and engaging social media pioneers. Here are some key takeaways and ideas to implement: Read more
Reaching the target market: FeeFighters' own Stella with a friend and Isaiah Mustafa of Old Spice fame. PS: Def bought Old Spice later.
Have you ever asked yourself what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? I bet you did. The Guardian Life Small Business Institute has conducted a survey among 1,100 Small Business owners with 2-99 employees and identified six characteristics of small business owners who increase their revenue and expand their companies even in these hard economic times. Read more
In my last post I talked about why you should leave your corporate job and join a startup. In this post I want to talk about how you can get a job at an awesome startup like FeeFighters.
Outright, online accounting software for small businesses, seeks to streamline business accounting. How are they different from other business accounting sites? Let’s take a look.
Lots of times FeeFighters users ask us what a personal guarantee is and when/why they have to sign on. This week’s kick addresses that issue as Sean talks the basics on personal guarantees.
FeeFighters recently spoke at a utility conference about how its participants can save money on credit card processing. After analyzing one of the participants’ credit card processing statements, we realized they could save 25% or about $30,000 annually on their credit card processing fees.
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. My task: inspire students to consider becoming entrepreneurs. One of my pieces of advice was to expand professional social networks by joining LinkedIn.
We were having lunch with our friends Sunir and Mike from Freshbooks, and Sunir mentioned the event SOBCon. I had no idea wtf he was talking about, but he then explained that SOB stands for Successful Online Business.
By the time we talk to business owners, many have been burned by a credit card processor. They reach out because they have been lied to, promised lower rates, and altogether feel cheated.
Many business owners in these uncertain times are looking for a way to turn around their flailing businesses.
We had a great time submitting, organizing, and speaking on our panel on financial institutions and startups. Here are some photos from the event and a great summary from moderator Felix Salmon:
I was reading the New York Times, learning from Thomas Friedman about the myriad of Islamic uprisings that are about to occur and I was presented with the attached ad.
