7 Ways to Grow Your Business

Deedra Mcgillivray 3 weeks ago


6 min read

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.


It’s one thing to start and launch a business. But identifying and optimizing a company’s growth potential is an entirely different matter. And it’s one that many entrepreneurs struggle with as their business takes off and as the business environment and consumer preferences evolve.

As I have developed my own business and watched those of my colleagues, there are many ways to figure out the best opportunities to expand and build your company. Here are my seven top tips for identifying and capitalizing on your business

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Business intelligence software vendor Board appoints Christopher Wilkins as ANZ channel chief – Software

Deedra Mcgillivray 3 weeks ago
Business intelligence software vendor Board appoints Christopher Wilkins as ANZ channel chief


Christopher Wilkins (Board International)

Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software vendor Board International has appointed Christopher Wilkins as its first local channel chief.

Wilkins’ official role is Director of Partners and Alliances of Australia and New Zealand, and his appointment is part of Board’s growth plan into 2021.

Board calls its flagship product as a decision-making platform, combining Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and Predictive Analytics to provide a single, accurate, and complete view of business information, gain actionable insights, and achieve full control of performance.

Wilkins said Board is at “a pivotal point” in its expansion,

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Nxivm survivor India Oxenberg went from aspiring entrepreneur to cult

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago
  • India Oxenberg told Business Insider that her entrepreneurial dream of opening a catering business drew her to Nxivm before she knew it was a cult. 
  • She spent seven years in the Nxivm cult, and alleged she was forced to become a “slave” to cult leader Keith Raniere, which included being branded with Raniere’s initials.
  • After she broke free, she said Nxivm’s promise of a “practical MBA” had initially prompted her to join. 
  • Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

At 19 years old, India Oxenberg’s dream was to start a catering business in Los Angeles. She had dropped out of

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KipuHealth Integrates Powerful Business Intelligence to Drive its EMR Platform

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago

Previously, these important metrics were difficult to identify and aggregate, requiring a skilled business analyst to extract data from multiple spreadsheets or database programs, then create charts and graphs to communicate and analyze the information. With KipuBI, that time-consuming task is eliminated and replaced with a modern, easy-to-navigate series of actionable reports. With just a few clicks, relevant, timely information regarding call center volume, pre-admission activities, referral analysis, marketing campaign effectivity, admission and census trends, patient demographics, occupancy levels, outcomes measurement, laboratory

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A Plus Business Coaching & Marketing LLC Helps Entrepreneurs Build Their Legacies Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago

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Finance experts are elated as A Plus Business Coaching & Marketing LLC (APBCM) has finally rolled out their Business Credit Finance Program. APBCM provides a unique and efficient cash and credit access program that offers business owners easy access to financing options for their businesses. 

By providing clients with access to the largest supply of financial options than any other stand-alone system in the world, securing funding to expand and invest is

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NFTE Names 17-Year-Old Jose Rodriguez of Providence, Rhode Island Top Young Entrepreneur of 2020

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago

Teen entrepreneurs from around the world vied for $25,000 in prizes at 15th annual National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

New York, NY, Oct. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has announced that 17-year-old Jose Rodriguez of Providence, RI, won the top prize at NFTE’s 15th annual National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, presented by Citi Foundation and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US), with support from PayPal. This year’s competition took place online, as 44 young entrepreneurs representing 34 businesses engaged in a virtual “pitch-off” on October 21 and 22. Competitors from Ireland, Israel, Mexico and Singapore joined

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Soapbox cofounder explains how business owners can give back

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago
  • David Simnick cofounded Soapbox, a socially conscious hygiene brand, in 2010, after realizing how effective proper hygiene can be in preventing childhood mortality.
  • The company donates one bar of soap for every Soapbox purchase. 
  • In early March, Soapbox began carrying hand sanitizer. Market demand for available sanitizer super-charged their sales, while straining their supply chain.
  • Now, Soapbox is on track to do 10 times its 2019 revenue, enabling the company to donate more than 5 million bars of soap since August.
  • This article is part of a series called Resources for Resilience, focused on providing tips and inspiration for small
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Futurism Reinforces Its Next-Gen Business Commerce Platform With Advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Capabilities | News

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago

PISCATAWAY, N.J., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ –Futurism Technologies, a leading provider of digital transformation solutions, is bringing to life its Futurism Dimensions business commerce suite with additional artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. New AI capabilities will help online companies provide an exceptional personalized online customer experience and user journeys. Futurism Dimensions will not only help companies put their businesses online, but would also help to completely digitize their commerce lifecycle. The commerce life cycle includes digital product catalog creation and placement, AI-driven digital marketing, order generation to fulfillment, tracking, shipments, taxes and financial reporting, all from a unified

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In 3 Words, Quibi’s Co-Founder Shows Entrepreneurs How to Handle Failure

Deedra Mcgillivray 4 weeks ago

You can learn a lot about success from failure. Recruiters often ask job candidates to describe a time they failed, and investors ask the same question of entrepreneurs. In each case, the answers demonstrate whether an entrepreneur has the right mindset for success.

Thinking about failure the right way is a critical step to achieve future success.

On October 22, Quibi co-founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman appeared on CNBC to announce that they would be shutting down the short-form streaming company for mobile devices. Even critics of the service were surprised that they pulled the service just six months

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RealTalk for Business Growth Launches to Help Women Entrepreneurs Thrive

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

Hallmarks of the program include: actionable strategies, camaraderie of like-minded women, accountability through implementation and authentic conversations

RealTalk for Business Growth™, a new program providing women entrepreneurs access to pivotal business resources, launched today. Serial entrepreneur, speaker, coach and advocate for women entrepreneurs, Maureen Borzacchiello, conceived the program to bring together growth-minded women entrepreneurs, providing them with educational strategies and plans to help grow and scale their businesses and themselves.

RealTalk for Business Growth™ is uniquely designed to support growth-minded businesses who have success but may be struggling to accelerate it to the next level as they stagnate within

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Qvinci Releases the KPI Scorecard and Several Innovative Business Intelligence Solutions for Accountants, Franchises, Dioceses, Non-Profits and SMBs

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Qvinci® Software – has released The KPI Scorecard, the latest in the long line of advanced business intelligence, predictive analytics and forecast modeling tools developed by Qvinci, with game-changing capabilities that empowers accountants, franchisors, dioceses, non-profits and SMBs to create:

  • Custom KPIs based on their own ecosystem metrics
  • Consolidated KPIs across a plurality franchises, dioceses, non-profits or single SMBs
  • Compare KPIs to peers of “like-users”
  • Trended comparisons of KPIs year-over-year
  • Conditional formatting indicating movement or trends
  • Comparisons to the “ideal” range of values set by the manager or user
  • Custom accounts based
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GoodData Adds Enhanced Self-Service Capabilities to Drive Business Intelligence Adoption

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

New CSV Modeling and Cloud Data Warehouse Modeling features increase time-to-value for business intelligence adoption by streamlining data modeling, integration, and onboarding.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GoodData, a leading global analytics company, today announces a new set of self-service data integration and modeling capabilities to improve access to business intelligence and drive data-driven decision making for more organizations, faster. Creating a data model is a critical step in any analytics solution, as it translates complex, disorganized data into real-world information. GoodData’s new features make data integration and data modeling faster, simpler, and more streamlined so

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Global Business Intelligence Market to 2025 by Component (Solutions and Services), Solution (Dashboards and Scorecards, Data Integration and ETL), Business Function (Finance, Operation) – ResearchAndMarkets.com

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Business Intelligence Market by Component (Solutions and Services), Solution (Dashboards and Scorecards, Data Integration and ETL), Business Function (Finance, Operation), Industry Vertical (BFSI, Telecom and IT), and Region – Global Forecast to 2025” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The Global Business Intelligence Market Size to Grow from USD 23.1 Billion in 2020 to USD 33.3 Billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 7.6%

Various factors such as the growing focus on digital transformation, rising investments in analytics, rising demand for dashboards for data visualization, an increase in adoption of cloud, and an increase in

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14 Creative Ways Companies Can Leverage Business Intelligence And Machine Learning

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

Most business leaders are familiar with the concepts of business intelligence and machine learning and know that these technologies have the potential to revolutionize their business operations. However, many of them don’t know exactly how to leverage these tools to their fullest potential. This intelligence gap can prevent you from capitalizing on countless opportunities. 

The members of Forbes Technology Council are at the forefront of studying and adopting the latest technologies to improve their businesses. If you’re looking for creative uses of business intelligence and machine learning, check out their expert recommendations below.

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Operating as an Entrepreneur vs. a Business Owner

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

The sheer fact of choosing to be a business owner is a brave and even noble act to be recognized and celebrated. Unfortunately, while business owners can be seen as being entrepreneurial in spirit, in today’s new operating environment of accelerating change, there is a major distinction that needs to be recognized between a “business owner” and an “entrepreneur.” There is a very different mindset and set of behaviors between the two that leads to completely different ways to manage and steer their firms and work with their clients. The difference goes right to the heart of the challenges

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How This Successful Entrepreneur Built His Business

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago


4 min read

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.


Finding the story of an entrepreneurial person who is determined to work for his goals leads many people to believe that it is just a matter of luck to achieve success. However, most of these people have had to walk a difficult path to obtain what they have achieved, and it has been their determination that has led them to the top of their dreams. At least, in the case of Alexander Neff, it has been so.

Also known as Xander, this young businessman has gone

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Four Life And Business Lessons For New Entrepreneurs, As Told By A CEO

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

Liana Zavo is the Founder & CEO of ZavoMedia Group a NYC-based full service public relations, and digital marketing agency.  

In a span of six years, I transitioned from being a celebrity stylist and designer to the CEO of my own public relations and digital marketing agency. It wasn’t easy, but throughout my life, I have learned many valuable lessons on grit, determination and passion that helped get me to where I am today and that I believe can help other entrepreneurs.

Below are my top four business lessons for new entrepreneurs:

Overcome adversities with self-acceptance.

When I was

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Developing A Business Plan? 11 Common Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

Research has shown that the businesses that survive the longest are those that have a solid business plan. New entrepreneurs hear this information, but it gets lost in a sea of contradicting tips and tricks. The result is that these entrepreneurs either fail to create a thorough business plan or try to make it do too much.

Many things set good business plans apart from bad ones. The one overarching idea is that the business plan should describe what the business does, how it does it and how it can keep on doing it at a larger scale. Below, 11

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Can You Retire on Only $1,374 Per Month?

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

According to its most recently published snapshot, the average Social Security recipient gets about $1,519 per month in benefits from the program. From that amount, recipients aged 65 or older generally see at least $144.60 deducted for Medicare Part B premiums. That leaves around $1,374 per month for most retirees who depend on Social Security for their retirement.

That raises a huge question: Is that enough to cover your costs of living? Can you really retire on only $1,374 per month? If you’re relying only on Social Security for your retirement, that’s what you may very well find yourself with.

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Taycan electrifies Porsche’s European, American deliveries

Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

Stuttgart-based marque Porsche announced that its premier all-electric offering, the Taycan, has become their best-selling model in Europe in August and one of their key sales drivers in the US in the third quadrant of 2020.

Based on the UK-based auto industry intelligence supplier JATO Dynamics, as cited by Car Industry Analysis, Porsche rolled out 1,183 units of the Taycan. This comprises 23.4 percent of the carmaker’s 5,046-unit total sales in Europe in August.

Aside from that, the same data showed that Taycan was also among the region’s best-selling models in its segment during the same month.

Meanwhile, the

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