Articles for Entrepreneurs
- Read this Before You Make Your Next Sales Presentation
- I was speaking the other day with a coaching client of mine who felt his team needed a new presentation they could use in front of prospects. In their business,...
- Advice for Baby Boomers Looking at Entrepreneurship
- Merrill Lynch has a great webcast called Reinventing Retirement: Second Acts, recorded in June 2010. It profiles over-age-55 people who are starting businesses. Every Baby Boomer should watch it. I...
- Tips on Asking for the Order
- My company sponsored a special event of a local industrial association recently and we made some good contacts. We had a booth at which we were promoting our products, and...
- Entrepreneurial Tips from My Barber, Nick
- I like a good haircut. Not just because I feel cooler in this ridiculously hot New York summer, but because I talk to my barber, Nick, about small business.
Nick's about...
- Effective Use of Crowdsourcing for Small Businesses & Entrepreneurs
- If you are a small business and haven't heard of crowdsourcing...well, the time has come.
How would you like to save hundreds or perhaps thousands of dollars on projects...
- What the iPhone 4 SNAFU May Say About Corporate Culture
- The rumors are circulating about what happened at Apple that produced its catastrophic iPhone 4. Some reports say engineers knew about the antenna/dropped-call problem but were made to understand that...
- Kauffman Study: Startup Firms Drive Employment
- Yay startups!
The Kauffman Foundation reported today that startup companies drive employment growth while established companies eliminate more jobs than they create. "On average and for all but seven years...
- Share Your Viewpoint on Business Plans: Are They Necessary?
- We've gotten a lot of feedback on our recent post, "Death to the Business Plan," in which small business CPA Michael Hanley said business plans are mostly unnecessary: They hold...
- The Ins and Outs of Freelancing as a Business
- Many people these days are freelancing their services, either full-time, as a moonlighting gig, or as a precursor to launching a business. While freelancing offers a lot of great advantages...
- Heaven Help the Forced Entrepreneurs
- Clate, I swear I'm not picking on you.
Clate Mask, CEO Infusionsoft, published a book on entrepreneurship this spring that I reviewed. I didn't love it. But this post has nothing...
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