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Reinvesting Your Profits Back Into Your Business

4 Ways To Develop A Thriving And Sustainable Business

Takis Athanassiou Reinvesting Your Profits Back Into Your Business.

Whether you own your own business or you’re a freelancer, it can come as a welcome and sometimes pleasant surprise when you start making a profit. So what do you do?

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Do you throw a party? Spend your profits on some expensive office wall art? If you’ve got any kind of business (or common) sense, you would invest it back into your business to make it st...

How To Finance Your Business

7 Strategies To Get Money For Your Business

Takis Athanassiou How To Finance Your Business.

Do you know how to finance your business? It isn’t always easy to get financing for a business, especially a new one that has no proven track record or past successes to impress lenders.

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Without funding, there are some businesses which simply won’t be able to get off the ground. Even if they can start, if there is no money for marketing or to buy good equipment, they won’t last...

Tips For Strengthening Your Business

Takis Athanassiou Tips For Strengthening Your Business.

Know there are always ways you can be improving your company, even if you think you’re currently in a satisfactory position. What you don’t ever want to do is get too comfortable in one place and stop trying to innovate and get ahead of your competitors.

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Strengthen your business by being willing to learn new approaches and ways for getting all you do in order.

You’ll feel much better about your future w...

Understanding Risk in Small Business

Takis Athanassiou Understanding Risk in Small Business.

When you run a small business, there are all sorts of pieces of wisdom and inspiration that you’ll pick up along the way. But one thing that you’ll massively benefit from understanding sooner rather than later is a business risk. So what actually is this?

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Well, business risk, put simply, is the chances that a company has of making a profit or making a loss in any given aspect of its operation. It can be influenced...

Tips On Protecting Your Business From A Range Of Disasters

Takis Athanassiou Tips On Protecting Your Business From A Range Of Disasters.

Warning: your business is at risk from any number of disasters. In this article, we provide some tips on protecting your business from a range of disasters.

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If confronted by them, not only will your day be ruined, but you may be faced with issues that affect your operations on a long-term basis.

In this article, we will look at three of the possible disasters that could affect yo...

3 Ways To Pick The Perfect Candidate

Takis Athanassiou 3 Ways To Pick The Perfect Candidate.

It doesn’t matter how tech-based, autonomous or behind-the-scenes your business may be, the most important asset you have is the people that work for you.

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It’s the talent that makes your company tick, your profit margins grow and keep your customers happy, which is why you need to make sure you are choosing the best candidates every time a place in your brand opens up.

Of course, the best...

Making Money From Your Blog

Takis Athanassiou Making Money From Your Blog.

If you are a blogger that really enjoys what you are doing and would love to turn it into your main source of income, you may be wondering how you can make some money from your blog.

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There are various ways to go about this, and here we have a few suggestions.

Selling Your Own Goods

If you have built up a good audience base that views your blog regularly, you have a readymade platform for selling your own goods.

Of course,...

Procuring The Perfect Supplier

Takis Athanassiou Procuring The Perfect Supplier.

Forget about tech, your employees, your sales team, your customer service offering and just about any other part of your business that you might value highly – your suppliers are probably the most important part of your business.

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Without them, you simply wouldn’t be able to operate. Not only that, but a good supplier can make your business in the same way a bad one can break it in half.

It’s why most businesses want th...

First-Class Leadership [A Book Review]

Develop An Effective Leadership Practice and Effective Teams

Takis Athanassiou First-Class Leadership [A Book Review].

Once in a while, some books hit your office can change your prime focus. Or at least many of your basic operating principles. One such book is the “First-Class Leadership” by Hamid Safaei.

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Hamid is a well-known author, speaker, coach, and consultant with a lot of passion and knowledge for helping people maximize their potential.

First-Class Leadership is the second book of...

4 Methods To Enhance Your Business Before Selling

Takis Athanassiou 4 Methods To Enhance Your Business Before Selling.

How to enhance your business before selling? Entrepreneurs often decide to sell their existing business and move to the next stage in their career or life. However, not everyone realizes the exact value of his/her business. Moreover, people often find that they could not get a fair price for their sold business venture.

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One should understand that many factors come into play in such a situation that l...