‘Small Business’ Archives
How to Grow A Business In 20 Days
From BigRedTomato.com Growing your business is like going to the gym. You don’t get results overnight. Instead you get results by taking regular and consistent action which takes your business forward. This series of articles, will give you 20 ideas which will show [Read More]
A Highly Effective Way to Avoid Wasting Your Time
By Bruce Kasanoff, LinkedIn Here’s a simple way to potentially save hours of your time each week, by investing a total of about five minutes. First thing one morning, take a piece of paper and write a column of numbers representing each hour from the time you wake up [Read More]
Small Business Finance Gets Boost From Federal Program
From BuildMyBiz.com The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced that loans to small businesses increased at the end of last year. The Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF), which is a program established under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to provide capital to [Read More]
7 Most Expensive Hidden Costs of Starting a Small Business
By Danny Duric, ResourceNation.com Being independent, choosing the people you work with and getting steady money from a business month after month is a job description that many of us find appealing, and yet you don’t see a lot of people running a successful small [Read More]
9 Female Boss Lessons I’ve Learned — Which Might Resonate For Men Too
By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, Huffington Post In the wake of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, I heard a lot of women say that Sandberg’s admonition not to “leave before you leave” didn’t resonate with them. If anything, getting married and/or having [Read More]
8 Bad Habits That Destroy Client Relationships
By Vivan Giang, OpenForum.com When you’re running a small business—especially in the early stages—it’s easy to simply focus on how to stay afloat. The problem is, that mindset will keep your company mediocre at best and fighting for survival at worst. In the first [Read More]
Is Fear Stopping You from Starting a Company?
By Michael Lazerow, LinkedIn.com You’ve done what you were supposed to do. You got a great degree. You landed your first job. You’ve now been promoted a few times. And you’re now hanging on LinkedIn like every good professional should do. You now are [Read More]
This Week in Small-Business News
What’s affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week. By Gene Marks, The New York Times The Big Story: Immigration Reform A bipartisan group of senators reveals an immigration reform plan, and President Obama backs “start-up visas” [Read More]
Crowdfunding Rules: 3 Keys for Kick-Starting a Business with Web Money
Crowdfunding Has Become Major Source of Capital for Start-up Entrepreneurs By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool Once the domain of artists and philanthropists,crowdfunding – in which several investors put up cash for a project or business idea posted to the Web — has [Read More]
The First Step In Your 2013 Plan – Anchor the Why, the Whom, and the What
2013 Plan Helps You Get To Work By Pamela Slim, EscapeFromCubicleNation.com A new year can feel like a fresh-smelling sheet just taken off a clothesline in a Swiss village. Or it can feel big and daunting, like staring off the side of a big cliff. However this new year [Read More]
