Business Resources
Post Office, SBA Offer Entrepreneurship Videos
The Small Business Administration and the Postal Service have co-created a video-on-demand resource for entrepreneurs with advice and inspiration from successful business owners, the agencies announced Wednesday.
Delivering Success, which is available online at http://www.sba.gov/deliveringsuccess, provides a video library of interviews with successful entrepreneurs sharing their experiences and insight into business plans, financing, business promotion, planning, [...]
Five Reasons For Small Business Owners To Blog
Why do small business owners write on blogs?
A faster and better way to create newsletter articles.
A strategy for getting published.
A low-cost way for a small business owner to market online.
A method to communicate and connect — especially important for business owners.
Satisfaction of some inner need to share.
Why do you blog? Or, if you do not [...]
Ten Things NOT to Name Your Business
Some words used in business names just bring certain connotations to mind, and, it can be enough to make me not go inside and shop.
“Today’sâ€
“Modernâ€
“Classy”
“Savvyâ€
“Swanky”
“Ladyâ€
“Tidy”
“Charmingâ€
“N’ Things”
Anything with a “K†where a “C†belongs – If you own “Kountry Klutter Kakesâ€, I will Kut you.
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5 Things Trade Show Attendees Don’t Want You to Know
Successful selling at trade shows depends upon two things. One is your products and personnel: How good are your products and services, and how well do your people represent them. The second has nothing to do with you at all. It has everything to do with secrets.
Not all attendees are the same, and not every [...]
How to Become an Expert
Shara Karasic, Community Manager of Work.com, will provide the inside view on how to use work.com as a valuable source of insight for your business — and also the ins and outs of how to use the site to increase visibility for your own business online.
Here is a sampling of some of the benefits of [...]
The Top 7 Reasons to Write a Business Plan
Lots of business owners skip a crucial step to ensure the success of their companies – writing a business plan. This detailed overview of your company and its future is commonly overlooked – often because it’s a lot of work. However, it’s some of the most valuable work you can do when starting up a [...]
Faith, doubt, effort go a long way
Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort. It takes all three to bring anything meaningful to fruition, and it’s good to keep those in mind if you’re trying to start or grow your own company.
Great Faith: To build a business — or start anything new — you have to believe in yourself and your ideas. You [...]
