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Building a Team

By Glenn Muske

team work

One of the challenges of a business is developing your team of employees. Previous posts have discussed how to find and hire new employees (Hiring New Employees, Time to Hire, and Employees are Your Foundation are three examples).  The difficult part though is getting everyone to work together and focused on the end goal. Business […]

July 11, 2018 Filed Under: management, rural, Small Biz 100, success Tagged With: effective management, employee management, participatory

Enjoy the Holiday

By Glenn Muske

Grilling

      It’s independence day. And for small business owners, independence also means doing your own thing. Enjoy the day and your business. Now on to grilling and the fireworks.

July 3, 2018 Filed Under: rural

It’s the Little Things

By Glenn Muske

small things

Did you ever have a really good idea only to see someone else jump on it first? Well, this blog post is representative of that. I came up with the idea last week and as I got ready to write this blog appeared in my email, “This Place is Perfect.”  So my options are to […]

June 27, 2018 Filed Under: Small Biz 100, success

Fill a Need with Your Business

By Glenn Muske

There are several common thoughts on the key elements to a successful business. Two of those most often mentioned are to build the business around a need or to build your business around your passion.  While there are examples of both elements working, realistically, a combination of the two provide the strongest launching pad. Passion […]

June 20, 2018 Filed Under: marketing, rural, Small Biz 100, success

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