Jim Kendall
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Owner hires son to boost sales. Would you?Dec 13, 2015 5:00 am - Ron Wajer needed to jump start his business. He hired his son to gear up sales. Whether that was a good move - son Michael came on board in early August - won't be known...
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Back off during the holidays or charge ahead?Dec 06, 2015 5:00 am - Absolutely, this is the time to kick back: Quit making phone calls, because your best customers (and prospects) are out of the office anyway, and take a few extra days o...
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Counselor's role: To play devil's advocate in businessNov 30, 2015 12:00 am - Wall Street ultimately judges the CEOs who run the big companies. Smaller businesses have Tom Caprel. Caprel is president of Wheaton-based BreakThrough Results Inc., ...
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Advisory boards: No power, but ideas 'to chew on'Nov 20, 2015 12:00 am - Conceptually, advisory boards are a slam dunk: The Small Business Encyclopedia at entrepreneur.com defines an advisory board as "an informal group of local business prof...
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How to catch up on your business readingNov 15, 2015 5:13 am - If your to-read stack keeps growing, try the following: Condensed, mostly "how to" content written by three skilled small business advisers - Ray Silverstein, Barry Good...
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Humor becomes part of CPA firm's identityNov 08, 2015 4:22 am - It's more often a knowing smile than a knee slapping, laugh-out-loud response, but the fact that humor exists on a CPA firm's website is worth exploring. Humor can be to...
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State of the small business communityNov 01, 2015 5:12 am - Ever wonder what's driving your small business counterparts? Conversations with three of the suburbs' top Small Business Development Center managers - Harriet Parker, wh...
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What's going on with the 504 loan program?Oct 25, 2015 7:43 am - There's something about the SBA 504 loan. • The numbers seem to work. Borrowers put down as little as 10 percent. Rates are low and fixed - 20 years for real estate uses...
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Kendall: How to 'stage' your businessOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Sheila Schostok mostly stages houses, working with homeowners and Realtors to make a house for sale look as appealing as possible. You know: Rearrange the furniture. Hid...
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How to 'stage' your businessOct 18, 2015 6:30 am - Sheila Schostok mostly stages houses, working with homeowners and Realtors to make a house for sale look as appealing as possible. You know: Rearrange the furniture. Hid...