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Confidentiality Agreements: After-the-fact is way too late

Can you force someone to sign a confidentiality agreement after you’ve disclosed sensitive information? Or after they’ve already done the work for you? No. To use an old farm expression, that’s like “closing the barn door” after the horse is gone.” I discuss a colleague’s tale in the video, below. She was a subcontractor on [...]

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Is Website Content Free for All?

I’m often asked, “Can I freely website content I see online? After all, it is free … and easily copied.” Tempting as it is to think that “freely available” equals “can use for free,” the short answer is … no. To play fair in the online world, you need to assume that if website content [...]

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The Right Business Partners for Your Conscious Business

I’ve had a lot of experience with business partners.  Some I’ve chosen more consciously than others.  Like dating in college, some business partners you end up with because you weren’t thinking clearly (how much did I have to drink?); other business partners are divinely inspired choices. Listen in to my interview with Sam Liebowitz, “The [...]

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Why Partnership Agreements are Vital for Business Health

When you’re starting your business, partnership agreements can seem a tedious exercise.  Not only do they take time and careful planning, but also partnership agreements can feel like a bucket of cold water–a real reality dose on your starry-eyed beginnings. Listen in to my BlogTalkRadio interview with Wendy Hanson of The Sassy Ladies, where we cover [...]

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Interviewing Alicia Marie Fruin–Building a Business Worth Having

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What struck me about my conversation with Alicia Marie Fruin, a national leader in coaching and training for small-business owners, and founder of PeopleBizInc.com, is that she so quickly zeroed in on where entrepreneurs get stuck. Stuck in doing everything ourselves because we can’t see a way for our company to expand past our limited skill sets. Stuck [...]

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To Be a Successful Entrepreneur, Avoid These Mistakes

Would that we could wave a magic wand and–POOF!–be a successful entrepreneur. Actually, it’s usually more a matter of becoming a successful entrepreneur and gorwing into the role than all-of-a-sudden being it. In this short video interview with Carolyn Kepcher of Work Her Way, I briefly discuss how a busienss owner might get in the [...]

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Key Secrets to Solid Business Partnerships

Business partnerships are easy to begin, tough to maintain. (Equally tough is finding a webcam freeze frame that doesn’t make me look downright goofy). In this video, I’m interviewed by Phil Simon, technology expert, management consultant, and author of the recently-released The Age of the Platform (his 4th book). We cover a range of business partnership issues including: What prompted me [...]

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Interview with Kat Gordon: The Art of Getting Paid

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As Kat Gordon, founder of the mom-centered marketing agency Maternal Instinct knows well, moms influence 85 percent of their household purchases.  There’s an art (and a science) to marketing to mothers.  Being a business owner, she also learned the hard way that there’s an art (and a science) to getting paid by your clients. Listen in [...]

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Interview with Ana Harvey: Gettin’ a Bigger Piece of the Pie

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Tune in for this spirited interview with Ana Harvey, Director of the SBA’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership. New opportunities are afoot for women-owned businesses to get a larger share of the federal contracts pie. Listen in as we discuss: The new rules for federal contracting opportunities The kinds of women-owned businesses that can best [...]

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Interview with Elisa Balabram: Ask Others/Trust Yourself

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Women-owned businesses generate approximately $2.8 trillion dollars a year, according to a recent study done by the Center for Women’s Business Research.  In gross amounts, that’s no chump change (I could do a LOT with $2.8 trillion.).  However, the study also seems to indicate that only 4.2 percent of all revenue is generated by women-owned [...]

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