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In the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship, turning ideas into action is often the hardest part. Many aspiring entrepreneurs find their business ideas stuck in endless dinner table conversations or coffee break chats, never moving beyond their initial idea. Taking the leap from discussing a business to building one can be daunting, full of uncertainties and potential setbacks.

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When a customer has a question for your business, they expect a response within a day. Fortunately, technology can help with that — here are six digital tools you can use to better service your customers.

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You are not a commodity. But just showing up online, copying what everyone else is doing and competing for the same clients isn’t going to make you stand out as a thought leader. It takes more than that. Get intentional about building credibility and engaging as the best, most qualified version of you. Use these ChatGPT prompts to test new approaches and ways of thinking, to engage and share with confidence every single time.

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The demand for cybersecurity will be significant in the next few years. Cybersecurity Ventures forecasts that approximately 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs will be available by 2025.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) counts these jobs to be some of the well-paid. Information security analysts, for example, could earn over $100,000 a year.

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“ Around 40% of ethical hackers recently surveyed by the SANS Institute said they can break into most environments they test, if not all. Nearly 60% said they need five hours or less to break into a corporate environment once they identify a weakness.

The SANS ethical hacking survey, done in partnership with security firm Bishop Fox, is the first of its kind and collected responses from over 300 ethical hackers working in different roles inside organizations, with different levels of experience and specializations in different areas of information security. The survey revealed that on average, hackers would need five hours for each step of an attack chain: reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation and data exfiltration, with an end-to-end attack taking less than 24 hours.”

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Almost every small business owner and manager would agree that cybersecurity is necessary to protect their company in today’s environment. The number and type of cyberattacks continue to increase, leaving many exposed to ever-evolving, complicated threats. Unfortunately, small businesses have become a favorite target of cyber criminals because of their limited resources available to implement needed safeguards.

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Epic Fab Girl founder Candace Junée held the Go-Getter Conference last weekend in Chicago. The go-getters came, saw, and learned valuable tools about how to add to their businesses’ glow.

The Go-Getter Conference was born out of Junée’s desire to motivate more women to fearlessly pursue their purpose. Over the years, it’s transitioned into a faith-based platform for Christian women entrepreneurs to build, grow, and monetize their businesses.

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*Letitia Hanke has been on an entrepreneurial mission that few African American women have experienced in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by white males. As founder and CEO of Alternative Roofing Solutions (ARS Roofing), a Santa Rosa, California-based business, Hanke gives steady leadership to her company’s diverse workforce of 24 to provide excellent roofing and gutter services to commercial and residential clients across Sonoma and Marin counties – and beyond.

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