Creating a Sense of Welcoming

Seeing how business and hospitality work together. Today’s blog comes to us from Linda Moxley, owner of Welcome Home Girlfriend. She is the epitome of a welcoming person, and has built her entire business on the idea of hospitality. We can’t think of anyone more qualified to write about this topic! Her personal story and…

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The Half-Year Check-In by Steve Abrew

In this fast paced small business world we live in time flies! As the sheet s fly off the calendar a small business owner and team should pause and reflect (financially) on a Monthly or Quarterly basis. If that did not happen for your business so far in 2013, now is a good time for…

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Exactly What You Want by Brittany Bennett

How to know when you need a custom website instead of WordPress for your website I sell custom websites for a living and I often speak about the benefits that a custom design can offer versus using a template design such as WordPress. That said, I am still a fan of WordPress and sometimes I…

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Are You Part of the Propel Network?

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Why it’s important to be part of a strong business community. Business is all about people: your team members, your clients and customers, your network. Developing a strong business community creates a network around you that can lend invaluable support to your growing business. Knowing who to build into your community is simpler than you…

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Benefiting Your Assets by JR Hinds

A Business Owner’s Guide to Employee Benefits As a business owner, you have a lot on your plate: marketing, budgets, forecasting, product development, and human resources are just a few of the issues you may have to tackle every day. Insurance benefits can be incredibly important to your employees. But you have to be mindful…

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All the Bells and Whistles by Sheldon Penner

A look at what a digital sign can do for your business Many years ago when the first caveman (small business owner) decided that he did not want to hunt anymore, he had to chisel out his specials on the cave wall for his customers to see. When inventory or specials changed, he had to…

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Feel Like You’re Under a Microscope? by Steve Abrew

A practical guide to what’s new for business taxes in 2013 The Fiscal Cliff made for good theatre at the end of 2012, and while the political and ideological battles will continue, we have a clear view of small business tax impacts, benefits and changes in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013. The emerging effect of the…

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Grab Your Readers with Effective Copy by Ashley Kipp

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  It certainly is no secret that when browsing through both online and print reading material, we have a tendency to dive-in with much interest to some articles, and quickly pass over others.  It is also very clear that as a business owner, we most definitely want any content related to our business promotion to…

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