New Posters!
Welcome to our new poster, OkieJ. I’ve invited a couple of other small biz experts to post also, so we’ll see if we can get introductions out of them soon.
Welcome to our new poster, OkieJ. I’ve invited a couple of other small biz experts to post also, so we’ll see if we can get introductions out of them soon.
“Our theme isn’t jobs, jobs, jobs. Rather it is to bring back the kids to their hometown,” said John Larsen, CEO of HomeMovie.com (www.homemovie.com). Larsen started a program, Bring Back the Kids, in the small town of Winthrop, WA (population 350) to connect former residents with career opportunities in their hometown.Source: The Agurban E-Zine, Issue…
This link is about making your website approachable for customers, but the original book is all about making yourself approachable. So let’s push it a little more and think about making our businesses more approachable. If it weren’t your business, would you feel comfortable approaching it? Here are the lessons for websites: Make your site’s…
Here’s a tidy little example of making it easy for customers to buy from you. Convince your boss to buy Web CEO for you If you believe Web CEO can help you and your business in work,download our Power Point presentation (~190 kb) and show it to your boss. That is laugh-out-loud perfect! So think…
My 4 week website class is now over! We were supposed to be covering just the use of FrontPage software. We threw that idea out the first night. All of the students wanted to create a simple site. They didn’t have the FrontPage software, so we needed some different solutions. I’ll publish a few of…
By Tom Peters I had several press interviews yesterday for a forthcoming event in South Africa. The conversation invariably turned to entrepreneurship. I was repeatedly asked what the “secrets” were to starting a successful business—any business, not some Silicon Valley or Cambridge software or biotech hottie.I’m sure I’d been asked the same thing before, but…
Rural small businesses face a big workforce challenge. We are dealing, right now, with issues that will hit big city businesses soon. Over at Small Business Trends, Anita Campbell has a report on the coming shortages in the labor market. My Small Biz take on this? We must grow and train our own people. The…
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