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Mike Kappel Articles

Mike Kappel is the president of Patriot Software, LLC., which develops online accounting and payroll software for small business owners. He has also founded four other successful small businesses, and he is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs find their way to success

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Never Miss a Beat in the Hiring Process Again With These 9 Steps

Mike Kappel May 10, 2021

6 Employee Wellness Ideas to Rejuvenate Your Workplace

Mike Kappel October 21, 2020

Types of Workplace Conflict, and 4 Tips to Prevent Them in the First Place

Mike Kappel June 5, 2020

7 Bad Habits Holding Your Business Back from Success

Mike Kappel April 3, 2020
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No Guts, No Glory: Why Taking Risks Means More Than Being Rich

Mike Kappel December 18, 2019
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Public Speaking Tips in Business from a Former Glossophobe

Mike Kappel September 19, 2019
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5 Top-Notch Tactics for Becoming an Employer of Choice

Mike Kappel July 4, 2019
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How to Conduct a Target Market Analysis That Gets Results

Mike Kappel May 6, 2019

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Mike Kappel April 1, 2019

7 Questions to Ask Yourself About a Candidate Before Hiring Them

Mike Kappel March 16, 2019

The Do’s and Don’ts of Dealing With Online Reviews

Mike Kappel December 25, 2018

Plan for Business Startup Costs Now, Reduce Stress Later

Mike Kappel September 22, 2018

6 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement

Mike Kappel February 22, 2018

How to Grow Your Business Using Software

Mike Kappel January 30, 2018

Learn How to Protect a Business Idea

Mike Kappel December 13, 2017

10 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Getting a Loan

Mike Kappel October 23, 2017

7 Tips for Surviving Your First Year as a Business Owner

Mike Kappel September 6, 2017

Business Plan for Small Business: Why You Need One, and How to Create it Today

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In 1957, Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders told America that supermarkets had hired motivational researchers to slow shoppers’ eye-blink rates from 32 a minute to 14 in the cereal aisle — a “hypnoidal trance” said to lift impulse buys by a third, and the panic it set off drove the first federal scrutiny of subliminal selling

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026

When Ed Catmull instituted the Braintrust at Pixar in the late 1990s, the rule was that the assembled directors could critique any film in development but had zero authority to mandate changes — Catmull argued that the moment feedback carried power, honest feedback would disappear from the room within one meeting

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026
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When Warren Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, it was a failing New England textile mill — he later called the purchase the worst trade of his life and estimated the decision to use it as his holding company instead of starting fresh cost shareholders roughly $200 billion in compounded returns

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026
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As company lore tells it, a worker at Procter & Gamble’s Cincinnati factory left a soap-mixing machine running through lunch in 1879 — the air-whipped batch floated in customer washbasins, complaints arrived asking for more of the floating soap, and Ivory’s ’99 and 44/100 percent pure’ campaign was built on what looked like a mistake

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026
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