“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison From @IGetu2C on Twitter.New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates.
(Editor’s Note: Sam Carpenter offered this guest post on common mistakes. These certainly apply to small town small businesses, too.) Five Common Mistakes People Make When Starting Up a Small Business And How to Steer Clear of Them By Sam Carpenter Whether you’ve established a small business, are in the midst of launching one, or…
Failure itself is not the secret to succeeding. Learning and improving by trying and doing, or learning from failure, is the secret to succeeding as an entrepreneur. If you are not trying new things, your business is stagnating. Of course, not everything you try will work. Some efforts will be a big hit, and some…
It’s like you want to throw a big costume party. You call a few friends, “hey, I’m going to throw a costume party.” “Great idea!” we say. We make supportive noises, offer a few ideas, and say we’ll be glad to help. Because we are, we will be, glad to help. Then you work out a…
By Owen Mead-Robins, Oprius Software Becky asked me if I would write an article about Oprius’ recent launch. I decided to concentrate on 3 of the biggest aspects of the launch. Probably the biggest lesson learned revolved around a decision about our booth. We are serving the Network Marketing industry, and typically vendors are pretty…
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…
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?…
Understand that failure is not the end of the world. Once you enter the world of entrepreneurs, you’ll have earned the respect and support of a whole new group of people. Failure is part of this world. Many successful business owners have failed many times. It’s really not a big deal. You’ll get far more…
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