Why is marketing important for small businesses?
Customer acquisition is a key objective for any business. Small businesses are constantly looking for new customers. If you’re struggling to find and retain customers as a small business owner, you no doubt have heard…
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How to run a business through tough times
We’re living in unprecedented times just now. As we write this blog, we remain in quarantine lockdown, like much of the rest of the world. COVID-19 has hit the world with something so unfathomable that…
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What is operations consulting?
As a consultant who runs an agency that offers business, marketing and operations consulting, I and my team are seeking to help your business in three ways: Putting together a plan to help your business…
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How to effectively find and pitch another business on your services
Our company owner Adam Carbonneau offers a Q&A for how to effectively find and pitch another business on your services. Sometimes a business consulting strategy is an area where the value of what you bring…
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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
Project pitfalls for small, service-based businesses 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…
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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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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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Leads aren’t just gonna show up on your doorstep
So your small business marketing needs to work even harder There are more than 30 million small businesses in the USA which might give the impression that it’s an easy thing to do. It’s not. …
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How does a business consultant work?
A Business Consultant explained Business consulting is bigger business than you might think. On a global scale, spend amounts total around $250 billion, of which more than $58 billion is spent in the US. You…
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