If you’re starting a homebased business, don’t assume your homeowners (or renters) coverage is sufficient to cover any mishaps. Insuring your homebased business is crucial to protecting both your business, your home and any other assets you might have. A homebased business needs all the same insurance as a retail space, a commercial office, a…
The following is part of a weekly newsletter I get from the Business & Professional Women’s National Headquarters: This week you have the opportunity to weigh in on the proposed Small Business Administration regulations for the implementation of the women’s federal procurement program. Comments can be received by July 17, 2006.After 5 ½ years, the…
Everyone join me in giving a huge and public thank you to Maesz for all the work while I was gone. She logged in and posted all those entries for me over the last three weeks, and I really appreciate it! small biz rural entrepreneurship New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you…
Slow Leadership blog offers 8 excellent tips on maintaining Start-up Sanity. A little while ago, I tried to explain why I think working hard is often necessary for small business owners and those with a start-up, but no guarantee of business success. Maybe that sounded like cold comfort, but it’s better to face reality early…
Princeton, Indiana, has set up a low-interest revolving loan program, to make loans of up to $10,000 to downtown businesses. Travis Neff wrote about it in the Princeton Daily Clarion, City hopes to foster downtown progress with loan program.It’s a partnership of the city government and the Umbrella Committee on Downtown Revitalization. The city was…
Mark Taylor, another small town Oklahoman, put together his experience in business, education and workforce development, and came up with this article on changing your thinking. Albert Einstein once said, “The significant challenges that we face today can not be solved at the same level of thinking at which they were created”. The world of…
For the next three weeks, I’ll be away from the computer. Maesz will be blog-sitting during this time, posting articles I have written for you. We’ll kick things off today with a guest article by Mark Taylor. Mark is a neat guy and has probably forgotten more about community building than I will ever learn….
It sounds really good – “a shop in minutes, a business for life.” Shopify lets you set up an online store with no charge, unless you sell something. Then it’s just at 3% commission. There is nothing to install; it is all hosted at Shopify. If you have a credit card merchant account, you can…
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