The Association for Entrepreneurship USA
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The Association for Entrepreneurship USA serves independent and small business leaders across all 50 states through community involvement, peer mentoring and education. By joining forces for greater purchasing power, we offer todays entrepreneur the competitive edge needed to compete in todays digital world.
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Recent Articles
Rock Your Referral Campaign
As the holidays slow the pace of business, this week is an excellent time to take a deep breath and re-evaluate the effectiveness of your referral campaign. Referrals are one of the most cost-efficient and exponentially effective ways to grow your business, and...
3 Key Ingredients to A Successful Vendor Relationship
Your business is only as good as the vendors you partner with. But what considerations should small business owners keep in mind when evaluating vendors as potential business partners? Transparency If you don’t trust your vendor, you won’t benefit from hiring them....
An Overworked Staff is an Underperforming Staff
According to the BBC, employees who use all of their leave are 6.5% more likely to get promoted or get a raise than employees who retain eleven or more annual leave days. Having a well-staffed company that can cope with a brief absence is one of the key ways employers...
Streamline Your Payroll Process
Payroll is like a lot of things in business: From the outside, it seems as simple as cutting a check. But in reality, managing your payroll involves tons of complex processes — think taxes, employee retirement accounts, time tracking, and health care, to name just a...
Tips For Holiday Travel in 2020
Let’s face it: Traveling around the holidays can be rough. Prices go up and routes get crowded. To add to this, the holidays fall smack dab in the middle of winter, when weather delays abound. Between large numbers of travelers and weather induced delays, holiday...
How Mystery Shopping Increases Revenue
The number one problem most businesses face isn’t getting customers to come to their business, it’s retaining those customers once they do come. By providing a constant assessment of how your business is interacting with customers, mystery shopping can increase...
Staying Healthy During the Holidays (Office Edition)
We’ve all been there; it’s late, you’re drained, and those holiday cookies are just the sugar rush you need to finish a task. But later, when the sugar crash hits, you will feel sluggish and irritable. As an entrepreneur, it’s hard to avoid the holiday health...
Developing a Sales Funnel That Works
Sales is not a science, but there are ways to improve your results through modern methods. One such technique has been developed to make closing clients easy: the sales funnel. A sales funnel is a marketing strategy that outlines a customer’s journey from potential...
Is Your Billing System Meeting Your Needs?
Billing is a complex issue for companies to handle, as every market and business plan is different. If your system is lacking in any way, though, it can be detrimental to your customer experience. Here are a couple of signs you need a new billing system. Competitors...
How to Create Your Iconic Logo
Your company logo is crucial to your brand identity. It’s a representation of the company values, that should inspire action and foster brand loyalty with your target audience. Whether you’re rebranding or just starting, you need to put a lot of thought and effort...
Stress Management In The Business World
Stress drives us to success at times, but it can also eat away at us and our loved ones. A recent study by The Korn Ferry Institute found that 76% of participating business professionals report that stress hurts their personal relationships. You can’t avoid workplace...
Inbound Marketing Misconceptions
Inbound marketing strategies have led many companies toward success. Unfortunately, misconceptions about this advertising technique have also pushed just has many companies to fail. To make the most of this marketing style, there are three common misconceptions you...