Great Ideas for your Small Business: Never Work with Anyone Who Gives You a Headache or a Stomachache If i had a motto, this would be it. Life is too short to work with people who make you miserable. This isn’t emotional hogwash. You can’t do your best work when you hate the person managing … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Make Your Meetings More Productive In this high-tech era, it’s a bit surprising to learn that face-to-face meetings are still the most popular form of business communication. In fact, 44 percent of executives surveyed by Office Team, an office staffing service, said they preferred to meet with people in … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Overcome a Fear of Public Speaking many entrepreneurs have to be the company spokesperson, whether they like it or not. While public speaking can be terrifying, knowing how to make a clear, concise presentation can mean the difference between financial success and failure for many small firms. You might … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Move Your Business to an Incubator if you think incubators are just for chicks, think again. Incubators offer entrepreneurs orchestrated business support, including mentoring, financing programs, and a mix of compatible neighbors. There are about 900 business incubators in forty-eight states, according to Dinah Adkins, executive director of the … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Create an Informal Advisory Board the largest companies in the world have all sorts of advisory boards, but entrepreneurs are often reluctant to ask outsiders for help. An advisory board made up of industry leaders, deep thinkers, cutting-edge colleagues, and experts can steer you and your company through the … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Solicit a Quick “Yes” or “No” through the years, i’ve learned that a quick and honest “no” is as important as a “yes” in many, many business situations. While we all love to sign on a new client or make a huge sale, too much time is wasted in … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Always Deal with Decision Makers the entrepreneur’s challenge is always to operate at the highest level possible; present proposals to the top decision maker, not the gatekeeper; elicit a prompt response; and move on quickly if the answer is “no.” Even when our company was based in the den … Read more
