Successful entrepreneur Bob Parsons has a tip for coming up with big ideas: So here’s my tip. Take time – preferably away from your business — and talk about your business with your employees. Talk about what’s right and talk about what’s wrong. During your discussions, you should have no particular goal in mind other…
I found this announcement on BlogHer: I’m Frederik from JAJAH and just wanted to let you know that we are giving away 100 minutes of free telephony for Mother’s Day (worldwide landline and mobile). Our concept is pretty easy, all you have to do is just typing in your own phone number and the number…
Great new tools are introduced every day that can help your small business. Too many tools, in fact, for anyone to keep up with! To help you, I’m collecting information on new web services and sharing it here. Now, I don’t pretend to be an expert in web 2.0 tech, so I’ll link you to…
We’re planning some changes here at Small Biz Survival, and we thought we’d let you in on them. Starting tomorrow, we’ll have the Brag Basket, encouraging you to review your week in business and find something worth bragging about. You can share it with the world, or at least with us, through a comment. We’ll…
Small towns and areas with declining populations have fought for years to increase industry and employment. One of the economic development strategies being used today is to locate businesses that are for sale, select ones that match the special natural resources of your area, and support local business people and entrepreneurs in buying those businesses…
How’s business? If it has stalled out, or if you just aren’t satisfied, you may be ready to reexamine your passion. From Entrepreneur.com, brought to our attention by Be Excellent. The first step is to sit down and determine your “best and highest use” or BHU. Your particular BHU stems from your unique talents and…
Fourteen women micro-entrepreneurs across rural Nebraska will receive a cash equity award from the Center’s Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP) Women’s Business Center. The equity award winners were announced at the Women in Business Benefit banquet on March 29, 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska in correlation with Women’s History Month. REAP is one of 15 Local…
We end our failure quotes where we began: “I cannot fail; I can only learn and grow.”— Larry Wilson Change your mindset. Treat failure as necessary and extremely valuable. Don’t beat yourself up for false starts, near misses or even wide misses. Learn and grow. Thanks for following our feature on failure and success. We…
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