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Quick insights & advice from entrepreneurs on planning, starting, and growing businesses.
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Experienced entrepreneurs offer their most valuable lessons-learned on a variety of essential topics.
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Entrepreneurs share stories about starting & growing their ventures, being an entrepreneur, & more.
Learning Your Limits As A New Entrepreneur
Esther Blakely, owner of Cataloochee Valley Tours in Waynesville, sheds light on finding funding, learning about your limits as an entrepreneur, and overcoming unexpected administrative obstacles.
Tried-and-True Ways To Meet And Acquire New Clients
Tanya White, owner of TanyaWhite.co in Morganton, talks about why the SBC is such a valuable resource, her best advice for new entrepreneurs, and a few tried-and-true ways to meet and acquire new clients.
Juggling A Business Partnership
Ted and Flori Pate, owners of Dig Local in Asheville, talk about the importance of being able to pitch your startup idea, finding business resources in your local community, and being able to juggle the intricacies of being in a business partnership.
Entrepreneur Advice For Planning Your Small Business
Listen to these entrepreneurs talk about the challenges, setbacks, and successes they experienced while planning their businesses. From not being fully prepared and what they would tell their younger selves today to the importance of talking to your target audience and branding yourself in the right way, they give their advice as they look back…
Entrepreneur Advice On Getting And Keeping Customers
Hear from experienced entrepreneurs on how to get and keep customers for your small business. They cover everything from being as transparent and honest as possible with them to not being afraid to pick up the phone and give them a call.
Entrepreneur Advice For Starting Your Small Business
Listen to these entrepreneurs talk about the challenges, setbacks, and successes they experienced while starting their businesses. From implementing customer policies and procedures to networking and making connections with your community, they give their advice as they look back on when they were just starting out as business owners.
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