Of course, a significant part of the appeal of being a small business owner is the local nature of the venture, being a vibrant part of the immediate community. However, with online business today, …
A new web portal, known as Virtual Compare, has been launched by the Maryland Health Care Commission to help owners of small businesses choose a group health plan for their employees. The portal provi…
You own a small business and you want to promote your service or product. The latest innovative tool for marketing small businesses is the internet, and this fact is well known throughout the small bu…
Entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their small businesses off the ground are by nature an optimistic lot. You have to be pretty confident and optimistic to imagine that you will do well in an age w…
I suppose most people would answer without hesitation "Yes, it does." But that lack of hesitation betrays a significant misunderstanding, about business, and about credibility itself.
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Bob Sutton paraphrases the classic "Amateurs study strategy. Professional study logistics." in his latest post "Strategy is for amateurs, logistics are for professionals" discuss…
At our local Chamber of Commerce, it seems like there is always some contest or other designed to entire small business owners to sign up and try to win something that is usually just an extravagant…
Since I'm a consultant, it may seem strange that I launch into this post with an attack on consulting and consultants in general, but this article is an inside look at the dirty underbelly of th…
But the real question is, is where you are where you need to be?
I see this debate, or some variant thereof, pop up every few months, the overarching theme being "is it better to be a startu…
Scaling is on the minds of most bootstrappers at least some of the time; you have dreams, you're working hard on them, what happens when the inevitable wild success strikes you and your company? S…