The Brag Basket is open! This one is for September 30-Oct 2, 2016. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess…
Are you an entrepreneur or a small-business owner? When one reads stories in the newspaper or journals, these two groups are not distinguished from each other typically. Neither the U.S. Small Business Administration nor the U.S. Census Bureau breaks them out separately. So does it make a difference? Or should the writings about building the…
Small town store owners, does any of this sound familiar? “I feel bad when customers tell me they can’t come during my hours. We have had a couple successful events in the evenings that brought customers in, but most attempts have been a bust. A shop I follow on Facebook recently tried for a…
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for September 23-25, 2016. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your…
Owning a business is often part of a person’s dream. The appeal of business ownership comes from a variety of reasons including independence, being the boss, money, and family time to name just a few. Yet there is a substantial gap between starting a business and still be running that business five years later. Statistics…
Ever have this problem: a potential customer says they’d like to buy from you. They even request a quote. But after you send that quote, you never hear back from them? A person working at an insurance agency told me about this one. I suggested that people really did want to buy from her,…
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for September 16-18, 2016. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess…
Do you know why you are in business? What a silly question! You’re in business to make money, right? Well, yes. If you are in business and want to stay in business, then generating a profit is necessary. But is that what you really want from your business? Not all business owners focus on the…
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