Great Ideas for your Small Business: Take Advantage of an Online Technology Marketplace Licensing new technology to other companies is a win-win scenario for everyone involved. Corporations invested $187 billion in research and development in 2001, according to the Battelle Memorial Institute, and selling licenses and collecting royalties is one way to earn back that … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Train Your Employees Online In the rush to upgrade computers and buy new software, many business owners forget that people need to be taught how to use the software before they can begin to be more productive. Employees can lose up to three weeks of work time tackling computer … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Find the Right Communications Technology for Your Business When it came time to consider the best kinds of communications technology for my business, I turned to an expert I can trust: my sister Amy Berger, founder of Berger Technology Research in Reseda, California. Communicating with your customers is the … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Five Great Things to Buy Before you can be truly high-tech, your business needs to have the right equipment and be set up properly. Here are the five things your office probably doesn’t have but should, according to business equipment expert Mie-Yun Lee: 1. Computer backup system. It’s easy … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Hire a Personal Information Officer The information superhighway leads to information overload for many busy entrepreneurs. With so much to do, it’s difficult to find the time to keep up with all the websites, books, magazines, and professional journals we know we should be reading. One solution with multiple … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Get Organized – Right Now Every successful entrepreneur tries to be well-organized in order to maximize every minute of the day. If you believe getting organized is just for the compulsively neat, add up the time you spend every day hunting around for misplaced files or documents. You’ll be … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Deal Carefully with Issues of Workplace Violence What would you do if your sales manager walked into work one morning with a black eye? What do you say when your secretary shows up with a split lip and puffy, swollen eyes? Do you ask what happened? Do you pretend … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Offer Employees the Right Incentives If you think glitzy trips to atlantic city or Las Vegas are great sales motivators for your employees, think again. When offered the choice between a trip or money, 44 percent of the employees polled preferred the financial reward, while 39 percent said they … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Find Out How Disney Does It No one is surprised when an entrepreneur heads to Harvard, New York University, or USC for a management training program, but eyebrows raise when they sign up for a course at Walt Disney World’s Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida. More than 60,000 people … Read more
Great Ideas for your Small Business: Offer Classes in English as a Second Language It’s no surprise to me that two of the nation’s most successful entrepreneurs offer free, onsite English as a second language (ESL) classes to employees. David Giuliani, president of the Optiva Corp., and the Small Business Administration’s 1997 Small Business Person … Read more
