Archive for Tips for a successful buiness
Abandoning a Good Idea, Part 2
All of your resources that you use (and by that I mean you, personally) are valuable. Your time, your money, your peace of mind, your management skills, your education, your temperament, your office space, etc. These should all be considered assets to your business. Are you siphoning resources away from the parts of your business that are running smoothly and wasting them on your problem areas?
Abandoning a Good Idea (Part 1)
Sometimes what seems like a loss can be a gain. Abandoning a good idea is risky, but leaves you open to achieve other great things.
Goldman Sachs invests $500 Million
Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffett invest $500 Million on Small Businesses, is this self serving or good for small business. It looks more self serving, I hope not.
Not Alone
Internet tools shimmy and evolve quickly to suit a demanding user base, so it can be difficult to keep up if it
Learning About Survival from the Turtle on the Highway
How desperate or stupid does one have to be to cross that proverbial highway? If you know you move slowly and must rely on the goodwill and skill of others not to cream you, do you go ahead and cross the road?
Dress for Success
If you are planning on starting your own business, you know that there are a lot of things to do, to plan and to manage. But one often overlooked item is what you wear on your first day of your new business.
Dress for Success – Even at home
If you are planning on starting your own business, you know that there are a lot of things to do, to plan and to manage. But one often overlooked item is what you wear on your first day of your new business.
Snuggies’ Guerrilla Marketing Campaign
Ok, even kids giggle at the Snuggie ads on TV where everyone sits in the stands of a football game in their sleeved blankets. Indeed, the guilty pleasure of snuggling under a huge fitted blanket with a good book or your laptop could be about as good as it gets, especially as fall begins to [...]
Snuggies' Guerrilla Marketing Campaign
Ok, even kids giggle at the Snuggie ads on TV where everyone sits in the stands of a football game in their sleeved blankets. Indeed, the guilty pleasure of snuggling under a huge fitted blanket with a good book or your laptop could be about as good as it gets, especially as fall begins to [...]
Plan for a backup, in case things happen
I am a big believer in backups; I always have believed that you need backup batteries, backup lighter, backup credit cards, and backup keys, but the one thing you must have as a small business owner is a backup plan. Not a plan B, but rather a backup for your marketing plan, or better said [...]