Temporary holiday help is critical in small business. You cannot afford a bad hire, even in the short term! Kay Bell asked my opinion on a holiday hiring for an article for NFIB. She also collected some great tips from workforce development specialist Jacquelyn P. Robinson. The tips break down into six areas: Start looking…
Every growing small business runs into a crunch time, that time when the work is pouring in faster than you can afford to hire help to do it. How do you get out of a crunch without hiring? That’s my topic for the OpenBeta event in Oklahoma City tonight. It’s a lightning talk, so there…
It takes a truly collaborative spirit to bring together 237 authors from 15 countries for a not-for-profit book. That’s the Age of Conversation 2: Why Don’t They Get It? Contributor Jon Swanson and I each wrote a chapter. Jon gave a preview of his part in Talking Together. A little bit of mine is at…
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Tourism businesses have an array of new tools. Today, I’m talking about those tools at the annual tourism conference of the Red Carpet Country tourism association. When another speaker canceled at the last minute, Jeanne “OkieJ” Cole asked me to fill in. I put together these ideas to share. Here are the links from the…
After my Small Business Letter from America that goes to the UK, our friend Marco Terry, of the Invoice Factoring Blog, shared some of his international perspective in the comments. What’s the same and what’s different for small business around the world? By Marco Terry What you write about is pretty universal. Small businesses still…
Once a month, Alex Bellinger allows me to post a Small Business Letter from America at the SmallBizPodUK. It’s a pretty tall order for this small town gal to seem to speak for the whole of American small business. This month, I didn’t think I could avoid the topic of the economy. If you’ve read…
At Blog World Expo, Shashi Bellamkonda caught me for a video interview. While I didn’t know it at the time, the result of all the Network Solutions video interviews is going to be a video conference called Solution Stars featuring 32 cool folks in new media and tech, October 29. (OK, 31 cool folks plus…
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