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How to Build a Loyal Customer Base

A recent article by American business magazine Forbes highlighted how “Attracting new customers will cost your company 5 times more than keeping an existing customer”. Consequently, it is pivotal that small businesses can establish and

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Cheap Ways to Start A Business

This week’s guest post is a good follow up to last week’s. You ready to be your own boss? Here’s what Hannah Corbett has to say about it. For SBT’s perspective and passionate rebuttal, see also

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Are You Ready To Be Your Own Boss?

This week’s guest post comes with a slick infographic. While the infographic is a fun way to self-assess your own motivation as a business owner, I know serious business owners aren’t going to let an

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Selling, Guilt-Free

Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just

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The Split Attention Strategy

Unconventional B2B Strategy #17 1775. Boston lay in the grip of the world’s mightiest empire. British authority seemed absolute. Most colonists still proudly called themselves British subjects. Revolution? Unthinkable. But Samuel Adams saw something others

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The Gen Z General

Unconventional B2B Strategy #16 216 BC. Rome was bleeding. North African general Hannibal Barca just obliterated 50,000 Roman soldiers at Cannae—the worst defeat in Roman history. For 15 long years, Hannibal could not be stopped.

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Control the Dynamic

Unconventional B2B Strategy #15 1941. North Africa. General Wavell finally gained the upper hand against the Germans. The British general had more soldiers, more weapons, more tanks, more supplies, and a heavily fortified position. There

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The Blitz

Unconventional B2B Strategy #14 1818. South Africa. The 12,000-strong Ndwandwe army emerges from the morning mist. Shaka waits with his Zulu army half the size. If Shaka loses here, the Zulu could face extinction. The

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Ethical Espionage

Unconventional B2B Strategy #13 1942. Lisbon. Juan Pujol writes another coded message for the Nazis. English troop movements. Air defenses. Supply routes. At least, that’s what the Germans believe. In reality, Pujol has never stepped

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Selling, Guilt-Free

Know yourself If you’re confident with who you are and know that your intentions are in the right place (that being….for your customers, not just

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