Sometimes the best advice comes from other small business owners. Mark Hayward asked on Twitter,“Small biz owners, are your numbers down? Ours seem to be off quite a bit from this time last year…How are you compensating?” In the course of our conversation online, we came up with two suggestions: 1. Diversify – What else…
The Product: Epson WorkForce 600 all-in-one wireless printer Short and Sweet Review: Great for small workgroups.Who should use it: Small businesses ready to move up from basic printers.Patrick Gevas of Walt and Company sent it to me for a review. I set it up in my home office, where it feels really big, compared to…
This is just my opinion, but I wouldn’t choose to use Twitter to promote my tourism business the way @Gabriola007, Gabriola Gables Waterfront Estate in British Columbia is doing it. There are no rules for using Twitter, so I’m not saying that they are doing it “wrong” because they aren’t following my advice. They are…
Ready for some help with your business? You can research online all day, read every book, even talk with friends and family, but sometimes you just need another experienced business person to sit down with you, face to face, and work on improving your business. No matter where you are, odds are that you are…
Failure is a friend and a teacher, but it can be mischievous. Don’t let it scare, intimidate, discourage, or sadden you. You are great, remember.—Pastor WD Favour, Enugu, Nigeria, via Twitter That may be the most interesting view I’ve read in quite a while. Failure is a friend. It can be mischievous. Fascinating! We’ve…
Hiring the right people is vitally important when you have only a few or even one employee. Contributor Zane Safrit knows quite a bit about hiring, through direct personal experience. He’s sharing the best of his experience in a free ebook, The Collaborative Hiring Process. Zane goes through the whole process, from finding people to…
Oklahoma State Senator Jay Paul Gumm writes a regular column and chose to talk about rural competitiveness and infrastructure recently. Infrastructure can mean lots of things. Gumm talks specifically about rural airports. These airports are critical gateways to mid-size communities. They are where CEOs land to look for business relocation or expansion sites. The airports…
Marti Lawrence has pulled together an all star cast (including a small contribution from me) for her third book, 7 Ways You Screw Up Your Life. All the principles apply straightening out your business, as well as your personal life, and Marti presents them in a clear and amusing way. The Foreword is by Chris…
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