Successful Business Tips

Denise O"Neill

Denise has spent her career leading sales organizations, building businesses, and helping leaders achieve sustainable growth across the corporate and nonprofit sectors. After senior leadership roles at PepsiCo, Reckitt & Colman, Nabisco, and ICG Commerce, she founded a nationally recognized breast-cancer peer-support organization and has since built a successful The Alternative Board franchise, coaching owners and executives through peer advisory, strategic planning, leadership development, and business growth.

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What Is a Business Sounding Board (and Why Every Owner Needs One)

Aug. 7, 2026 | Posted by Denise O"Neill

A business sounding board is a trusted, objective outside person or group you use to think out loud, test decisions, and get...

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Most people don't think that they have enough time to understand and learn about how to create or start a successful small business using things like social media such as Facebook and Twitter, email, running website optimizations, making great personal and company tasks for the day and the year, using best practices, and more. With our easy to understand online blog posts about a wide range of topics such as money security, the free market, growing customers, starting the process of building a better product, and access to the tips and tricks that successful entrepreneurs that work with us share, you'll easily be able to follow the main point being made and move on to the next article with ease. It is our hope that after reading some of our articles that you will think to yourself, "I've got to get going on starting my business before my opportunities pass me by!" There is no particular order in which the articles need to be read, so pick a topic that interests you and start learning!