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    Our best Accounting Basics articles

    ByBecky McCray November 19, 2008September 27, 2016

    Accounting and finance is one of those topics no one likes to deal with. Except us. We like to talk about it because we (Maesz and I) do it, and we teach it. We’ve written a series of articles on accounting and bookkeeping, and here are some of our better items. Do you get accounting?…

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  • entrepreneurship | planning

    The best thing you can do for your business

    ByBecky McCray November 14, 2008August 27, 2014

    Today, the number one best thing you can do for your business is to spend time focusing on improving your business. You have unprecedented resources and support available to you, no matter where you are, to help you build and improve your business, to survive any economic conditions. You can read advice from innumerable business…

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  • entrepreneurship | failure | rural | success

    Small town talk

    ByBecky McCray November 10, 2008August 27, 2014

    When you succeed, they will say… “Well, look at who his granddad is. They all have money. He had everything handed to him.” “She had nothing to do with it. My cousin does all the real work there.” “Must be nice to have all that money without doing anything for it.” When you fail, they…

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  • entrepreneurship

    The Strategic Sweet Spot

    ByBecky McCray November 9, 2008August 27, 2014

    By Lisa Van Allen, PhD, ACC There is no more critical time than now for small businesses to discover their “strategic sweet spot”. Business owners put a considerable amount of time into evaluating the market, selecting a niche, and developing a personal or company brand. These are essential to business success. But the work is…

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  • entrepreneurship

    Presenting 11 ways to do more from OpenBeta OKC

    ByBecky McCray October 30, 2008August 27, 2014

    Every growing small business runs into a crunch time, that time when the work is pouring in faster than you can afford to hire help to do it. How do you get out of a crunch without hiring? That’s my topic for the OpenBeta event in Oklahoma City tonight. It’s a lightning talk, so there…

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  • entrepreneurship | global

    International small businesses face similar challenges

    ByBecky McCray October 27, 2008August 27, 2014

    After my Small Business Letter from America that goes to the UK, our friend Marco Terry, of the Invoice Factoring Blog, shared some of his international perspective in the comments. What’s the same and what’s different for small business around the world? By Marco Terry What you write about is pretty universal. Small businesses still…

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  • entrepreneurship | marketing | mistakes

    Mistakes: Being scared of buzz

    ByBecky McCray October 19, 2008August 27, 2014

    Are you afraid of buzz? What does that cost you?  A local small business owner asked me to not share photos of her renovated historic building until after she has a grand opening. I was surprised. I mentioned that her renovation had been featured in a newspaper article, with photos! She said again, “don’t show…

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  • entrepreneurship | rural

    Power lessons for small town entrepreneurs

    ByBecky McCray October 18, 2008August 27, 2014

    Ben Power wrote some serious small business lessons in, “Are local tech shops a dying breed? If so, it’s our fault.” He’s talking specifically about computer sales and repair, especially in small towns, but he gives some lessons we can all stand to be reminded of. Here are few quotes: Answer your phone when it…

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