Paul Cox was looking for a way to cut back on the hours he was spending on his business. Like many entrepreneurs, Cox loved his business but, with a family on the way, was looking for options to spend more time at home.
"I’ve run my own business since 1997," says Cox. "I just love the freedom and flexibility that it offers and I relish being the creator of my own destiny."
Both Cox's instincts as an entrepreneur and his yen for …
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She may work as a full-time director of marketing by day. But in her spare time, Jenn Herman likes teaching small business owners all about social skills...social media skills that is.
Herman works for a San Diego Aerospace maintenance company.
"So, I do social media as much as possible at work all day and then I come home and blog and network on multiple social media sites after work," she explains.
She started her own blog, …
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For Larry Keltto, entrepreneurship was a choice. After getting married in 1993, Keltto discovered the hours of a full-time journalist no longer suited his new life.
Striking out on his own, he founded Straight River Media with just a computer, a laser printer and a book on Quark Express.
"The term content marketing didn't exist in 1993, but it was the company's foundation -- in the form of print newsletters that I created for clients," …
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Lori Byron believes any business owner or entrepreneur can be a superstar. With a love of reading and writing going back to childhood, Lori Byron now helps her clients write their own stories.
Byron's first job out of college was working with small business owners to help them increase sales. Witnessing firsthand the freedom entrepreneurs enjoyed in their businesses and the influence they had in the community made a powerful impression.
Since …
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It's often said that small business people wear a lot of hats. To BizSugar members, the hat most associated with small business owner Mike Allton is the one he wears as editor of The Social Media Hat. It's the site where Allton regularly posts articles on blogging, social media, Internet marketing, writing and business technology.
They are all subjects Allton knows well as the owner and operator of a small business that provides Web …
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Imagine living in Wisconsin, not known for its mild winters, and having a job that forces you to commute 100 miles one way daily to the office. If you've "been there, done that" then you can probably imagine Michelle Mangen's plight.
And you can also probably understand why Mangen, following the particularly harsh winter of 2007 to 2008, marched into her boss's office and told him he would need to find someone to replace her by Thanksgiving.
No, …
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Herby Fabius is a part-time entrepreneur with a plan for success.
The Stamford, Conn. resident and College of Westchester graduate is two years in to a five year plan to create a sustainable business online.
"After graduation I knew the corporate world was not something that I wanted to pursue right away, so I gave myself a 5 year deadline to start and run an online business," Fabius says.
But in order to gain that success, …
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You could say that Matthew Needham grew up in business. His first experience in the business world came at age 6 when his parents bought a pharmacy.
It didn't take long for Needham to realize running a drug store was not for him, but his interest in business didn't stop there.
After receiving his degree in accounting and finance, Needham worked his way up through the ranks, first at Rolls-Royce, then at Experian.
Then in 2008, …
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Ian Smith likes to say that your business is either remarkable or invisible, and that which one it is depends on you.
Author of Fulfilling the Potential of Your Business: Big Company Thinking for the Mighty Small Business, which won the Small Business Book Awards for Management in 2012, Smith has dedicated his professional life to helping small business owners create remarkable businesses of their own with an infusion of management …
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Daniel Sharkov grew up in the blogging business. Usually when we say that, we are talking about someone who started working in a particular business at a very young age.
However, in Sharkov's case, both he and the business were quite young.
A 19 year old student from Bulgaria, Sharkov began blogging four years ago and has been running his latest blog business for the past two.
His site Reviewz n' Tips: Make a Head Start in Blogging …
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