Jim Kendall
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How to make your Web site workSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - If you want your business' Web site to do more than sit there, the suggestions that follow should help. So should the names and contact information that come with the su...
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Can entrepreneurism be taught?Aug 26, 2009 11:00 pm - The Chicago-based Coleman Foundation, which since 1981 has put $44 million into entrepreneurship programs at colleges and secondary schools across the country, is fundin...
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There are loans out thereAug 19, 2009 11:00 pm - You may have to stretch your search parameters, but loan money is available to small and mid-size businesses. Banks and micro loan funds are the places to look: • Yep, b...
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Due diligence may be key to your business' recoveryAug 05, 2009 11:00 pm - As that speck of light looks more like the beginning of the end of the recession and less like another freight train, decisions you make now may determine how much your ...
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Readers advise startup wannabeJul 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Charles Evans, the newly unemployed engineer who has been thinking about starting his own business, received lots of truly good advice from readers of both this column a...
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Handling the choice to find a job or start a businessJul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - This is Charles Evans' anniversary. He was riffed exactly one month ago. Whether sympathy cards or congratulations are appropriate remains an open question. Evans, a rea...
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Building sales may require trust firstJul 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe, as the recession lumbers on, you should follow Chuck Thomas' lead and focus your marketing on building trust, with some trust of your own that sales will follow. ...
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Create your own investorsJul 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Contrary to what almost everybody else says, Stefania Aulicino says money is available for small businesses. Even better, most of it comes without the strings often atta...
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Personal approach sells books, could sell widgetsJul 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Authors have the same goal business owners have: Sell product. Interestingly, the personal sales approaches three local authors use to sell books to buyers likely would ...
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Scarce financing thwarts conventional wisdom on business startupsJun 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Conventional wisdom says there should be more startup businesses starting up: Unemployment in Illinois reached 10.1 percent last month, the highest rate in 25 years; few...