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1). How to Work Your Strengths, Weaknesses and Everything in Between.
But it took me to really focus on my true strengths, recognize my weaknesses and use everything else to bring them together to create my ultimate entrepreneurial foundation. You can do the same thing and it begins with realizing your strengths, admitting your weaknesses and using skills, passion and a little luck, to make them work for you.

2). It's More Valuable Than Money - Your Community.
When you're enjoying dinner and dancing at your company's annual event or that Mojito at your associate's loft you are building something more valuable than your business bank account..."

3). You're As Good As Your Last Idea! 5 Ways to Get Your Creativity Flowing.
So, if effective communication is the difference between life and death of a business, and it's something that us entrepreneurs should be mindful of everyday, how do we keep those ideas flowing? As the vehicles of these stories, we have to keep ourselves fresh first. Here's 5 ways to do that...

4). How Do I Choose a Web Designer for My Business?
"...informed decisions when it comes to your business' marketing expenditures can be the difference between business success and failure. There are specific concerns that you will need to address when looking for your first web designer, here are seven real-world questions any new business owner should ask."

5). PART I: Top 10 Business Lessons You Can't Afford NOT to Learn
So, here's the first five things I did differently or better during this last year and a half that helped me add 15 new members to my family roster, and increase our revenue by 155%...

6). Building Relationships for your Business By Volunteering.
"...entrepreneurs need to interact with their target market and then communicate effectively with them in order to build any relationships that may lead to a sale. How do you reach your customer if you can't afford well-placed advertising, need a larger budget to produce a radio or tv spot and want more of a connection than one night networking events?..."

7). Business is Growing! Are You Keeping Up? 3 Simple Ways to Tell.
...are you all ready to handle 10 clients per month instead of 2 clients per month, right? Well, if you've answered, No, to the question, then we've got a few things to talk about. Here's some suggestions to get you going...

8). PART II: Top 10 Business Lessons You Can't Afford NOT to Learn
So, you've got a look at the first five things I did differently or better during this last year and a half, that helped me add 15 new members to my family roster, and increase our revenue by 155% in PART I. Check out the last five things, print out both newsletters and keep them up somewhere were you can see them. When we forget our past we're doomed to repeat it.

9). Why is My Networking, 'Not' Working? How to Effectively Build New Relationships into Customers.
It may seem obvious that the most important aspect of networking is following up but it is often the most ignored part of networking. When you don't follow up, your best efforts at networking will 'not' work!

10). Do You Put the 'I' in Team? Become an Asset in your Organization.
More responsibility falls on the shoulders of less people in small businesses and the end result is the 'I' becomes a very important part of the team. Individuals must work to develop themselves and pull their assigned weight or else there may be no team and no company. So do you make a good 'I?'

11). Building a Gold Mind or Wasting Your Time? Know Your Business and The Reasons You're Doing It
Are you really on the right entrepreneurial path? Is the business you chose to develop, really satisfying? Here are some questions you may want to ask yourself in order to see if you're really happy being an entrepreneur.

12). PROMO 101: Tips On Promoting Your Event Online and Offline.
In this newsletter, we'll beam in on some promotion techniques that I've used and had my team implement to increase thea awareness of our companies and events. To stimulate ideas and help trigger new ways for you to let your target market know about your events, Read On...because with Spring right around the corner, everyone could stand a little promotion pick-me-up.