Time for the weekend Brag Basket. This is your chance to post a comment and tell the world (or a few like minded people) about your successes this week. What’s the point? Promote your business, or yourself. Review your week, learn your lessons, and build on your successes. Enjoy it! You deserve a chance to…
Stephanie Paul offers her opinion on the Top Five Expenses Entrepreneurs Overpay For. I’ve included just her top tips here. 1.Insurance Check with your local trade association, which may surprise you with competitive group insurance rates. 2. Taxes Entrepreneurs habitually over-estimate quarterly tax payments because the IRS charges significant penalties for an underestimate. 3. Employees…
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Notes from A Diamond in the Rough – Mentoring podcastListen to the audio version “Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it may be a diamond in the rough.”Mary McLeod Bethune Qualities of a good protégé: *genuine interest in professional and personal growth*developing a sense of self; personal vision*open to and receptive to feedback, coaching*commitment…
A couple of great resources submitted by our readers. nPost.com entrepreneur interviewsNathan Kaiser emailed me about his site, nPost. As a fan of learning from others, I had a ball looking around nPost’s interviews. Kaiser explained a bit more: The interviews focus on their insights, experiences, competitive environment, hiring practices and much more. They provide…
I could not resist subscribing to the How to Start a Two-Bit Operation blog. That was the perfect title to pull me in. This week, they’ve written about their Point of View on taking breaks from business. Here’s where breaks come in handy… Breaks from work. Breaks from each other : ) Breaks from thinking….
Your community’s best economic developers are not on the payroll at your development authority or the local government. Lots of times, they are the successful entrepreneurs. Pat Matthews, author of Small Town, Big Ideas blog, is a perfect example. As many of you know, I think that Blacksburg has a lot of potential as a…
How do you ask your customers to give you quality referrals? Here’s an idea from my sister Connie Foote’s Mary Kay unit newsletter. It’s an idea that comes from Tracie Carley’s unit, an Independent Senior Sales Director from Lakeland, Florida. According to Tracie, it’s an easy, inexpensive way for Independent Beauty Consultants to find new…
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