Heather Villa

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Your business is up and running and growing… and you want to grow your business further. You want your growth to be smart and effective and you want to avoid costly missteps and expensive “rabbit trails” that can pull you off track.
The problem is: You’re busy. You’ve got a full plate. You’ve got enough to [...]

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Twelve Reasons You Should Not Freelance
Are You Trying to Be Too Smart?
Travel’s with Leo-Sydney (Beautiful photographs!)
Twitter Adds Local Trends Tracking Tool
The Simplest Secret to Business Growth
iPad Web Design and SEO: First Looks
What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like
Read more of my favorite posts on HeatherVilla StumbleUpon.
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In a couple of days, my calendar is going to ping me with a reminder. It’s going to say “One month in – how’s it going, Heather?” This reminder is for me to review the new business strategies I intended to integrate into my business this year.
Each year, I list out a bunch of strategies [...]

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Second Place is Truly The First Loser
Lists of Usability Testing Tools
Does Your Customer Want 
What You’ve Got to Offer?
From Mindless Spending to Mindful Consumption
Hilarious FarmVille Parody Ad Tells It Like It Is [VIDEO] – This totally cracked me up.
WARNING: This Video Will NOT Change Your Life
Three Key Ways to Think Like a Client
The [...]

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This article is not all about finances. Well, it’s partially about finances. More importantly, it’s about how to grow your business. Growing your business doesn’t just happen by magic. There’s no business growth fairy that takes away a balance sheet and leaves a bigger business under your pillow. It takes consistent, carefully investment to create [...]

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In my reading I’ve enjoyed the writing of Duct Tape Marketing creator John Jantsch. You can read his blog over at Duct Tape Marketing.
In a recent blog, The Three Natural Phases of Successful Small Business Growth, Jantsch talks about the 3 phases that he sees small businesses progress through.
The first phase is foundation, the second [...]

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I can’t imagine a business that doesn’t want some kind of growth. That’s exactly the way it should be. But not all growth is good and in the past couple of blogs I talk about business growth that can sometimes be a problem.
So far, I’ve talked about out-of-control business growth that costs so much up-front, [...]

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