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Learn how to turn your idea into a business, or your side hustle into your only hustle.
How To Start an E‑Commerce Business—a Complete Guide
There’s a lot to do when you’re first figuring out how to start an e-commerce business. It can seem overwhelming to take that first step, but it doesn’t have to be.
Launching a Business
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How to Start Dropshipping: 9 Steps and Tips
Learn how to start dropshipping in 9 steps, and tips to ease the process or creating and running your business.
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Freelancing Guide: Your Business, Freelance Website, & More
Freelancing can be a great way to make your professional life more flexible or earn extra money. Read this guide to freelancing to learn more.
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How to Create a Business Plan in 9 Steps
Writing a business plan can be complicated—but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how to create a business plan in less than 10 steps.
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10 Different Types of Entrepreneurship
Thinking of starting your own business? Learn about 10 different types of entrepreneurship and their pros and cons.
Create Your Brand
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How to Build a Brand Strategy—Tips & Essentials
Having a concrete brand strategy allows you to strengthen your brand. Learn how to build a brand marketing strategy and set your business up for success.
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5 Tips for Starting Your Personal Blog
Do you have a story to tell but don’t know where to tell it? A personal blog sounds like it’s right up your alley. Follow these tips and start your own blog today.
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All You Need to Know About Product Packaging
Learn how to design product packaging that matches your brand’s personality—and doesn’t break the bank –with this easy to follow guide.
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Cool, Fancy, and Free: The Best Font Generators
Font generator tools can help you find or create the font that matches your brand’s identity. Browse our list of the best tools to find the one for you.
Second Act
Mailchimp Presents Second Act, a show which follows those who have chosen a new direction in their careers, discovered their passions and defined their own versions of success
Grow Your Audience
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What is an Online Form Builder? Features Explained
Online form builders make it easy to gather information from visitors to your site. Learn more about website form builders and why they’re important here.
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Building an audience on Discord: a guide
Nurturing an online community is never straightforward. Here's how a drinks brand managed to use the platform as a core part of its strategy.
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How to Get More Followers on Instagram—Who are Actually Real
Do you want to know how to get more followers on Instagram? Check out these tips and best practices and gain Instagram followers today.
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How to... spice up your food content
Food and drink marketing can be make or break for restaurants, bars and brands. Here, creative producer Jason Underhill spills the beans on developing an appetizing strategy.
Product-Market Fit
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Marketing Products: 10 Tips for How to Market a Product
Marketing products is a challenge for every business. Get tips for how to go about product marketing and learn about tools to use to support your efforts.
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Five-minute briefing: period products
For decades, menstrual hygiene brands have been hidden away at the backs of shops and are often made with harmful chemicals to boot. Now a new generation of period care companies are taking on an outdated sector and giving it a much-needed revamp.
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The repair revolution
With recent government legislation in the US, UK and Europe, the ‘right to repair’ movement is giving customers the freedom to tinker with the electronic goods they’ve purchased. But what impact will this have on indie local repair shops?
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The rise of food halls, revisited
Although the food-and-drink sector was hit hard by the pandemic, the low set-up costs and community focus of food halls means that more and more are now setting out their own stalls.
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