Heather Villa

When you first plant a garden, it looks just the way you want it: Neatly trimmed and ordered. Over time, though, it starts to grow and grow; it gets shaggy, it grows over the barriers. Unwanted weeds appear. Without careful trimming and management, your garden can look terrible, but with careful management, your garden will [...]

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One of the reasons I’ve observed that businesses struggle to be successful is because their team isn’t all rowing the boat in the same direction. Frequently, the business owner is so busy themselves that they don’t have time to train other people. And, even though every entrepreneur knows that training others will free up their [...]

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Did you like that title? Every business owner wants to run a more efficient, profitable business. But I confess that I wasn’t entirely honest with you: The original subject line of this Tips In Ten article was going to be “Manage Your Expenses in 10 Minutes a Day”. Unfortunately, I don’t know many people who [...]

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As a business owner, I’m sure that you face decisions, choices, and even problems every single day. If the choice is clear, it’s easy to take action. But sometimes the choice is not clear and sometimes the problem has choices buried in it that you need to identify first. In the last article of Tips [...]

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As a business owner, you have lots of work to do. Hiring someone to work in your office isn’t always a realistic alternative and you can often get highly qualified offsite contractors and freelancers for less than it would cost you to have someone in your office. Not only that, you can put in just [...]

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Setting and achieving goals is a challenge for anyone – it doesn’t matter whether you’re an entrepreneur or a mom or a college student… or anything else. Our lives are busy (and they’re getting busier, it seems) and we’re bombarded with stuff to do all the time. Part of what makes this process difficult is [...]

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Extending credit to your customers can be good for business. Without the opportunity to “buy now and pay later”, you’ll need to run a business where you require payment up-front in order to complete the transaction. That might work for some businesses but not for all businesses. And chances are, it may not work for [...]

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