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5 Hints on Overcoming Stalled Growth Strategies

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: It’s all about grow­ing your busi­ness… here’s the how to do it smartly. What’s old is best again… net­work­ing 1980’s style. Don’t call it a come­back… 4 steps for reviv­ing an ail­ing com­pany. As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase […]

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Warning: This will get you and your boss’ head nodding

by Donald McMichael
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“Who are these guys? They’re my theme music. Every hero’s got to have some.” — Jack Spade, ‘I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ This has to be one of my favorite quotes from a movie. I’m pretty cer­tain no one is going to call me a hero. But, I do have a theme… check that a soundtrack. […]

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The Truth About Starting a New Business Successfully

by Donald McMichael
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Okay, it’s that time of year again where lists of how to close out the year right, get a jump on the next year, and how to lever­age the hol­i­day social scene pop-up like… well they are every­where. So much so that it forces your brain to tune out and every­thing starts to sound like […]

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by Donald McMichael
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Here is a Method That is Helping Niche Businesses to Boost Sales

by Donald McMichael
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I have the plea­sure of teach­ing entre­pre­neur­ship at FIT (Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy) in NYC. Being a New York City based busi­ness school cloaked as a design/art insti­tute pro­vides fer­tile ground for dis­ci­pline mash-ups.  The attached arti­cle from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up, Antwerp’s con­cept stores which dis­play and sell every­thing from clothing […]

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How to Build a Business that Works

by Donald McMichael
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One rea­son so many star­tups fail is that they either craft a busi­ness plan then shelve it at launch or worst yet slav­ishly fol­low it with­out adjust­ing when the ini­tial assump­tions are proven by the mar­ket to be invalid. Instead, entre­pre­neurs should take a page from the con­cept of lean man­u­fac­tur­ing and focus on “learning […]

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by Donald McMichael
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Want to stay out of the impend­ing video con­tent war, then hus­tle your­self over to the con­tent devel­op­ment or cus­tomer inter­face ends of the value chain. The arti­cle (pic­tured below) that takes this posi­tion was posted on Gigaom last Sat­ur­day (Sept 24th). A few could argue that it wouldn’t roll upon us that fast, that […]

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