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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Starting a new small business? Looking for some professional consulting to help you think through your business plan or your strategies for growth? Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help.

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How to Choose a Business Location

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How much is income and sales tax? Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. If you’re operating a business out of your own home, many of the same zoning laws will apply to you. Consider doing your own market research, and ask your target audience where the ideal location for them would be. How much are property taxes? Give it a try.

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What is a Product Life Cycle?

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Both product demand and profits are increasing, and marketing is aimed at a broad audience. Funding for this stage is generally still through lenders, or through increasing sales revenue. At the mature stage, sales will level off. While unit sales are at their highest at this stage, prices tend to decline to stay competitive.

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5 Key Ingredients to Charging What You’re Worth

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I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. It was at this ad agency where she taught small businesses the value of a strong foundation and how they would grow with a strong brand. Most small businesses fall down here.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

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I left a great job, Director of Marketing for Snapple, to start my own speaking business. When I walk off a stage and know that my audience will change their behavior, or solve a business challenge differently because of something I said, or a story I told, that is so personally gratifying. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4

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What’s the Secret to Your Success? With Jesse Thomas of Picky Bars

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After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. Our first employees were actually University of Oregon students that came in and made the bars in our house. million in total sales last year. million in total sales last year. “Now we did about 1.1

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

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If you are willing to put in the time, and learn the necessary farming and business skills to become the profitable small business farmer you know you could be, there’s good news. Within just one yield, you’re out of business and all because you didn’t know where your target audience was located, or what their values were.