5 Steps

5 Steps to Starting an eCommerce Business

Maui-based Jennifer Varner, the founder of BellaBluMaternity.com, helps people start their own ecommerce companies

5 Steps to Creating a Culture of Innovation

Management consultant Vino Mehta offers this guide to creating a culture of innovation

5 Steps to a successful media interview

Lori Teranishi explains how to handle your next media interview

5 Steps to Writing a Business Plan

When starting a business, writing a business plan should be your first priority.

5 Steps to a successful business meeting

Dan Bower, general manager of the Plaza Club, offers some tips for your next business meeting.

5 Steps to Becoming a Sustainable Business

Scott Cooney, adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii's Shidler College of Business, offers strategies on making sustainability work for your business.

5 Steps to a More Civil Workplace

Penelope Paik of Civility International offers a few tips on creating a better work environment with your colleagues.

5 Steps to Creating a Mobile App

Could a mobile app improve your company's customer service?

5 Steps to Social Media Success

Get the most out of Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Google and Foursquare.

5 Steps to Accessing Capital

SBA's Elizabeth Echols provides tips on how to obtain financing

5 Steps To Email Marketing

Damian Davila, online marketing consultant and CEO of Idaconcpts.com, shares tips for smart email marketing.

5 steps to marketing in Japan

5 Steps to Applying for a Business Loan

First Hawaiian Bank vice chairman Ray Ono explains how to get a business loan.

5 Steps to Getting a Liquor License in Honolulu

Read our how-to guide and avoid repeat visits

5 steps to Writing a Press Release

5 Steps to Private Banking

High-net-worth and business owners can have their own personal banker.

5 Steps to Better Public Speaking

Mark Blackburn, treasurer of Honolulu’s Downtown Business Association Toastmasters, offers tips to help you be an effective speaker.

5 Steps to Make the Most out of Yelp

Here's how to make Yelp your ally and not your enemy.

5 steps to Planning an Event

Philip Richardson of Current Affairs gives these tips on getting the most out of your events.

5 Steps to Start Investing in Real Estate

Kim Kiyosaki bought a single rental home in 1989 and has 2,000 today. Here’s how she did it.

5 Steps to Saving on Workers’ Compensation Insurance

Bob Dove of HEMIC shares his tips on saving on insurance premiums

5 Steps to Buying an Existing Business

Gabe Lee, executive vice president of commercial marketing at American Savings Bank, explains a little about what to act upon when purchasing a business

5 Steps to Making Meetings Work

Attorney Elizabeth Kent of the Hawaii Judiciary’s Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution discusses how to make meetings more efficient.

5 Steps to Handling the Media

Hawaii presentation coach Pam Chambers gives tips on working a television interview

5 Steps to Making a Million Dollars

There's a reason some people are wealthy: they learn to manage their time, resources and passions.

5 steps to Build Trust In the Workplace

According to Kalei Inn, principal consultant of Kalei Inn, Ph.D. and Associates,the key to a peaceful work environment is trust.

5 steps to Boost Web Traffic

Mary Fastenau, president of StarrTech Interactive, explains how to drive more eyeballs to your Web site for little or no cost.

5 Steps to Motivating Employees

Nicholas Mitsakos, chairman of Arcadia Holdings Inc., explains how to keep workers excited for the workweek.

5 Steps to Prevent Credit-Card Processing Rip-offs

Matt Sakauye, senior consultant at credit-card processing firm Gravity Payments, tells you what you need to know if your business plans to accept credit cards.

5 Steps to Stopping Fraud

Protect yourself from fraud with these tips from Bank of Hawaii's Brian Ishikawa.

5 steps to Buying Business Insurance

Buying the proper business insurance is one of the most important decisions a business owner makes, says Myles Murakami, president of Atlas Insurance.

5 Steps to Getting a Building Permit

Nancy Kaya, owner of Kaya Permit Processors and an 18-year veteran of the business, offers these tips to homeowners and business owners on how to make the process of obtaining a business permit...

5 Steps to a Painless Tax Return

A little planning goes a long way toward reducing the tax-season sting. We offer the following tax tips to prepare this year, and keep you organized moving into 2009.

5 Steps to Boosting Your Cash Flow

Every business owner should map out a cash-flow strategy and be diligent about following it, especially in these troubled economic times. Here are some easy tactics involving minimal investment to...

5 Steps to Exporting Internationally

Establishing your product in a foreign market takes more than just international postage. Export management firm Tradewinds Global’s president Kevin Kraft offers these steps to exporting.

5 steps to Cutting Costs in a Soft Economy

Local economists and business industry leaders are advising companies across the state to tighten their financial belts for an economic downturn that could last through 2009.

5 Steps for Handling Layoffs

For small-business owners, weathering a recession sometimes means having to layoff employees. While staff reductions are never easy, there are a few things business owners can do to maintain...

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