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More small businesses are damaged by growing too fast than by growing too slowly. That sounds contrarian and it isn't, particularly. It's just that failure from slow growth is visible and failure from fast growth looks, right up to the end, like success. The mechanism...
~by Haley Lynn Gray~ My hardest client was one I eventually fired. They were absolutely convinced that to double their business, they needed to spend more on marketing. More ads, more reach, and a flashier website with more movement and animation. Then I looked in...
Peter Drucker wrote in 1973 that the aim of marketing is to understand the customer so well that the product fits them and sells itself. It's the best definition there is, and it contains the trap that catches most small business owners. Marketing done perfectly makes...
In the venture capital world, "lifestyle business" is mildly insulting. It means a company that will never be very large — one built by someone who, the implication runs, lacked the ambition to build something bigger. For most people reading this, a lifestyle...
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