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When your business is underperforming, it comes down to the mechanics of the business. One or more of your business processes aren't working. Whether you are just getting started or have been in business for years, even decades, you need to address the mechanics and processes of the business. Which system is holding you back? Is it your sales engine? Or is it your...
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Government Small Business Grants (SBIR and STTR Programs)
In the early stages of developing an innovative new product or technology, entrepreneurs can struggle to find people to invest their high-risk endeavor. Yet we need these pioneering businesses to have funding. The United States government has small business grant programs...
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Books by Lea Strickland
Success begins with smart goals!
10 Minute Success: Goals
10 Minute Success – Goals is the answer to the question I am asked on an almost daily basis: “How do you get so much done?!”
God's lessons for today's world.
The ABC’s of Biblical Change
The ABC’s of Biblical Change: Lessons from the Pentateuch walks readers through the lives and lessons of various Bible characters and examines some key concepts that span the lives of these characters.
For-profit government accounting in easy to understand language.
SBIR Basics: The Numbers
This book is for the SBIR recipient. It contains the building blocks of the concepts for accounting, financial and administrative requirements that are associated with federal funding.
What you don't know can't cost you!
Out of the Cubicle and Into Business
This isn’t “theory”, but practical insights, questions, and information on the realities of starting your own business and laying the foundation for success.
Marketing for the real world!
Marketing Strategies That Really Work!
No matter how good your product or how strong your promotional offer, if you fail to get that information into the marketplace where potential customers can see it , success will forever elude you.
Ideas that transform your business!
One Great Idea Can Revolutionize Your Business
