How to effectively find and pitch another business your services
Our company owner Adam Carbonneau, a small business consultant offers a Q&A for how to effectively find and pitch another business on your services. Sometimes, as a small business consulting agency, conveying the value you…
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How to grow your business with partnerships
I was talking recently to a prospective client about his business and where he wanted to take it. Let’s call him Bryan. Bryan has big dreams for his company: new products and services, expanding his…
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Scope creep is killing your service-based business
Owning and running a small business is hard work, no doubt about that, but it can also be deeply gratifying. In a single week, a hundred different things can happen that are fulfilling, complicated (in…
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How businesses use social media
Social media’s impact on business Social media has been around for a long time with the first blogging sites coming into existence in 1999. After that, social media burst into fresh life with the launch…
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Your business should be flexible
Adding flexibility to your business plan As operational consultants, at Take the Stairs, we know that nothing moves quite as fast as business. Whether it’s consumer tastes, technology, the competitive landscape or the economy, if…
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Your business isn’t using a PM tool?
Project management tools can improve your business If you run a small business, chances are that your ship doesn’t always sail smoothly. Your job as an owner or manager is to plan and execute projects…
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Want a successful business? You’ll need empathy.
Greater empathy could be the key to your business success My mom has a plaque on her kitchen wall that says, “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins”. I always…
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Uncovering the value of social media for small business
Did you know that social media has a global penetration rate of 45%? Partake in it or not, social media in its various forms is here to stay. Maybe you scroll through Instagram every hour…
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How integrity benefits your business
What is integrity, anyway? Integrity is a word that gets thrown around a lot – but what does it actually mean to you and the success of your business? At an individual level, integrity is…
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Are you running your business or is it running you?
Do you feel trapped in the weeds? If you’ve ever dreamed of owning and running your own small business, you might have had glorious thoughts of building a wonderful culture with like-minded, go-getting, dynamic people.…
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