Common mistakes can kill your small business, but most of them can be easily corrected or avoided. Today’s bad example: inconsistent business hours.A local restaurant is open, I think, Saturday at 5 pm, Sunday at 11 am for lunch only, and Monday sometime. In fact, they are only newly re-opened from a previous failure. They…
Most of us agree we need a business plan, but of course, most of us don’t have one. So this week, I took my own advice, and started on my own simplified business plan. Here are four tips to help you move to start your own plan. Simplify – I’ve given you an outline Reuse…
Change your thoughts, and you change your world. Don’t believe me? Think that’s too much, to optimistic, or too unrealistic? It’s not. It’s Positive Thinking Day. You can’t change anything else, so you might as well start to work on you. You can’t change the economy. We see signs right now that tough economic times…
“Rule No. 1: Use your own good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.” –Bruce, Jim and John Nordstrom, co-presidents of Nordstrom department store, in the employee handbook Quoted at Customers Are Always New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates. Want more stories? Read our…
Improving your personal credit history can help your small business borrow at better rates, secure a better merchant account deal, or negotiate a better lease. So how’s your credit? If you are like most people, either you don’t know or you only know it’s not good. Time for some resources to improve your personal credit….
Rural small businesses may become big fans of GotVMail. It acts as your phone system or switchboard, handling calls as they come in and routing them to your cell, home, or office. When a customer calls your business, GotVMail answers the call with a recorded message, giving options like extensions. The customer can choose “Sales”…
OK, broadband maybe didn’t change my life overnight, but I could not do my work effectively with out it! So I was all over this email from Joy Howell. My name is Joy and I am the director of a new public awareness campaign called “Broadband Changed My Life.” Being a blogger who is active…
The Carnival of Small Business and Startups #4 is now up at http://www.logodesignworks.com/businesstips/carnival-of-small-business-and-startups-4 It’s full of terrific articles, including A Motivation Secret of Top Performing Managers by Dr. Robert Karlsberg and Dr. Jane Adler. The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires by Susan Velez. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see?…
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