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5 Reasons to Be a Part of a Business Community

Smart Hustle Magazine

Being a part of the business community plays a critical role in the success of small business owners. If you look at the thriving small business owners, you will find that most of them are outstanding community players. To be a part of a community offers you much-needed guidance to survive in a difficult time like now.

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Building Business Community: Focus on Cooperation, Not Competition

Entrepreneur's Handbook

From my experience, the business community can strengthen its every member if we build it on cooperation, not competition. Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. At other times, they just copy someone else’s strategy and try to implement it. Who’s the real enemy?

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Thinking of Community as Marketing When You're Not Marketing Anything

This is going to be BIG.

Sounds a lot like "community," doesn't it? Communities should be built around values, not around products, so you don't need to wait until you have a product to launch a community. That's actually an exciting opportunity because you have a year to develop a really thriving community around reducing stress.

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Digital marketing strategy: drive leads or build brand?

NZ Entrepreneur

So should your digital strategy be focused on driving leads or building your brand? The long term plays are things like giving value-driven content without the ask, running educational events, building communities, investing marketing dollars on brand attention instead of conversion and direct outcomes. Sales and brand.

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Cultural re-onboarding: 3 ways to adapt to virtual collaboration

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Culture refers to the social and emotional glue that bonds employees together into a community of belonging, motivates employees and protects against burnout. It also involves the values that guide the community of your employees into the increasingly disrupted future. We connect with others and belong to communities to be fulfilled.

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Small-Scale Manufacturing is the Secret Sauce to Revive Downtowns

StartupNation

Small-scale manufacturing businesses help us create thriving places, with business ownership opportunities and good-paying jobs that other business types cannot fulfill. They are the hidden gems in the economic development strategy and downtown reinvestment efforts of every place (yes, I really mean every place).

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

In a nascent field like entrepreneurial ecosystem building, practitioner examples are rare and we were not going to pass up the opportunity to speak to four representatives of this pilot project to learn more about: What gave rise to the need of hiring an ecosystem builder. River and bridges in Danville.