This weekend, I’m talking business at BlogWorld Expo. If you’re there, too, come say hi! Together with David Bullock and Shama Hyder, I’ll be talking about how to streamline business planning for real people. How do you do that? Well, first you need to figure out your business. Then you’ll need to figure out your […]
Archives for September 2008
Help me with the Brag Basket
Each Friday, I open the brag basket as a fun place to give someone a pat on the back, brag, or promote yourself and your projects. Last week, we heard from me, Rick Wolff, Chel Pixie (for Whitney Hoffman), Mark Hayward, Karen Putz, and Zane Safrit (for Paul Chaney and IBNMA). This week, I once […]
Business degrees and Entrepreneurship certificates
Can entrepreneurship be taught? I think the skills that make successful entrepreneurs and small business owners can be taught. Eight Arkansas community colleges are taken action on that theory, offering a new business degree option and certificate in Entrepreneurship, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship in their September 2008 Rural Entrepreneurship Newsletter. (You do subscribe, […]
Overcoming powerful failures
My plan to redefine failure has a new partner: fellow Oklahoman D. Scott Cooksey, author of Powerful People Overcome Powerful Failures, Your Daily Guide to Becoming Powerfully Successful. Cooksey isn’t shy about owning up to his own failures. We had a great conversation about responding to failure. He gets it. That’s why he wrote such […]