It is the holiday season and I have been a shopping machine. Well, an online shopping machine! I prefer shopping in my pjs and people stare when I go to the mall like that One of the biggest trends I noticed this year was people using the Big Sites (where all of the customers are) [...]
I often hear (and am guilty of it sometimes myself) small biz owners say “I’m not a big enough business to try that” or “I don’t have a chance of getting into that”, so they don’t bother to submit articles, send samples to magazines or websites, or try to get their product into that big [...]
You spend hours, coming up with your perfect business model. Then you spend weeks, drafting your plan. Then you spend months of sweat equity and labor, poring over every aspect of your dream, making sure you’re represented just the way you’d like. Then you wake up one morning to find out someone else has come [...]
A man walks into a restaurant. A waiter takes him to his seat and gives him a menu of the dinner choices to look over and leaves him to make his decision. After a few minutes, the waiter comes back and asks the man if he has made his choice. The man shakes his head [...]
Four years ago I quit my day job to start my dream job – working for myself. My plans in college while studying entrepreneurship were to open a vintage clothing store, but five years later I had changed my mind and with my husband I started a vintage clothing website instead. It was a major [...]
One teeny, tiny little thing you may do many times a day can be robbing your business of it’s most valuable asset – your focus. In today’s world, focus is a fleeting thing. We zip from one thing to the next, often multitasking like maniacs. We’re watching TV while checking in with friends on Twitter [...]
