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Small Business Owner Video Rant. Agree or Disagree?

I’m going to try to fire this one off as quickly as possible so that you can focus on the video rant featured below. I came across an article on Business Insider titled, “Business Owner Rant Sums Up How Many Feel About Deficit Impasse” and had to share it here. I’m curious as to your [Continue Reading]

Don’t Put a Band-Aid On It

Band-Aid brand band-aids are awesome, that’s not the problem here. The problem is actually problem solving or the lack thereof. As a small business owner nothing can be worse then putting a band-aid on something, it really does piss me off. I find myself using the “band-aid” example a lot in my small businesses, especially [Continue Reading]

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Almost Got Away from Me

I really need to take a few hours and get a few blog posts written for this blog before I break my entire plan of trying to make sure this place stays updated every day for as long as I can, almost, somewhat… kinda my version of a stupid New Years resolution for 2011. I [Continue Reading]

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13 Things I learned as a CEO in 2010

As I try to throw together a few last minute posts to close out 2010 I had to take a stab at posting a few of the things that I learned in 2010 as a small business owner. Now that I have the “10 Facts About the Extreme John Blog”, “10 Most Popular Posts of [Continue Reading]

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How to Invest in Customer Loyalty

Customers can make or break your business. Hence the ultimate aim of every business is to get as many customers as possible on their books. When a company launches a product it needs to have as many people try it as possible. The initial sales figures are important to gauge how attractive its product is [Continue Reading]

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17 Reasons Google Voice Rocks for Small Business Owners

Here comes another one of those posts that I’ve been planning to write for a long time and never got around to. This post about Google Voice is also one of those posts that I almost never wrote because I made the mistake of assuming that everyone already knew about it. I’ve written on here [Continue Reading]

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13 Things That Frustrate Me as a Small Business Owner

I feel like I have really been on a list post rampage the last few weeks, cranking out all kinds of lists posts from “9 Companies that Inspire Me” to “22 Things You May or May Not Know About Me”. Instead of posting all of the fun stuff and cool things about new social browsers [Continue Reading]

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New Business Card

I can’t even imagine anyone clicking in their rss feed reader or coming through to read this post from my Facebook fan page. I mean let’s face it who really cares about someone else’s business card design, especially someone on the internet like meeeee (Eric Cartman voice). Thanks to being completely crushed lately working on what feels [Continue Reading]

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Remember the Milk

I bet there were plenty of you that thought, “Sure he will be back with another update today!” when I said it earlier today in my “Small Business Foursquare Friday Giveaway” post. Well guess what? I am actually going to get a second post in before the day is over and there’s a good chance [Continue Reading]

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Do It, Delegate It or Dump It

Those of you that are nice enough to come through my blog on a daily basis or that subscribe to my rss feed here know that in addition to being one of those blogging ceos and a blogger that is open to guest posts I am also a multiple business owner. Every once in a [Continue Reading]

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