THERE’S NO FREE LUNCH!ALL MONEY HAS STRINGS ATTACHED Financing Your Start-Up BusinessDebunking the Myth of “Free” Grants [I met Fred Patterson at the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds conference in Oklahoma City last year. He’s back with another rock solid article on business financing. You can also download a PDF of this article,…
Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. I started this so you can introduce yourself, share some good news, or congratulate a friend. The basket is open all weekend, from October 8-10, 2010. Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. We…
[I’m a rural telco cooperative customer, and I know so are many of you. That’s why I’m publishing this guest post on broadband from Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association. –Becky] By Shirley Bloomfield Broadband discussion tableat the Midwest Rural Assembly It’s been called today’s “essential service,” with the transformative power of electricity and…
By Erin Verbeck Recently my husband and I experienced the epitome of poor customer service during an already stressful time when we were moving, selling one home and purchasing two others. This story is too good not to share as it has such a great lesson for small business owners. We had been scheduled to…
Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. I started this so you can introduce yourself, share some good news, or congratulate a friend. The basket is open all weekend, from October 1-3, 2010. Because we are having a memorial service for my father this weekend, I…
Our van broke. More accurately, while taking our daughter to college, our van, loaded with her stuff, began overheating 90 minutes into the two hour drive. After stops for cooling, much fretting, some praying, and smoke coming out of the tailpipe, we got to the college, got her stuff unloaded, and parked it. After catching…
If you use a Facebook Page as your main business presence, you don’t own it at all. Photo by Paul Swansen If you rely on your Google Places listing to tell people everything they need to know, you don’t own that either. You can only add the information they say you can add. They choose…
John Spence, author of Awesomely Simple, sent this to me. It’s 20 years of his research on business success all boiled down to one word cloud. What do you think the key words will be? Find out at The Pattern of Business Success. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get…
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