When it comes to starting a successful business, there’s no surefire playbook that contains the winning game plan.
On the other hand, there are about as many mistakes to be made as there are entrepreneurs to make them.
Recently, after a work-out at the gym with my trainer—an attractive young woman who’s also a dancer/actor—she [...]
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10 Mistakes That Start-Up Entrepreneurs Make
The Gift of Gab: Speaking can be a lucrative path to more business
Give a speech. Win a client.
As simple—or even scary—as that formula sounds, a host of entrepreneurs have found that conquering public speaking can be the route to more contacts and customers. Impressing people with your expertise at a conference, in a classroom or over the radio can sometimes win more business [...]
Résumé Overload? A Shortcut to Spot Best Hires
If there’s one thing we small-business owners need it’s more time in our days. If you’re like me, you’re constantly on the hunt for the secrets to doing something faster, better or cheaper.
Hiring employees is no exception. Finding the right people is never easy, but in today’s turbulent economy, job [...]
Getting in the Slow, And Stress Free, Lane
If job stress is wearing you down and you want more leisure time, but you can’t—or don’t want to—quit altogether, it can be easy to feel stuck. But there’s an alternative to consider: a voluntary demotion. Plenty of professionals dream of scaling back on their workload or ceding management responsibility, here’s [...]
Summer Calls, But Getting Away Is Tricky
The official start of summer may be just days away, but for many small-business owners, relaxing at a beach resort, touring a foreign city or camping in a remote forest is still tough to picture – at least not without a cell phone, laptop or other communication device by their side.
More than half—55%—of 750 entrepreneurs [...]
So Many Links, So Little Time
While toiling over what you are now reading, I scanned my three email accounts dozens of times and wrote a handful of emails; I responded on my cellphone to a score of text messages from my girlfriend and kids; I checked the balance of my bank account to see if a promised [...]
‘The Cat Hid My Car Keys’ – Excuses Workers Make
Last year, an account executive dozed off during a training session at Strategis LLC, a small marketing-communications company in Stoughton, Mass. Co-owner George Irish says the employee explained the bizarre incident by claiming to suffer from narcolepsy.
“What he had was a case of partying too hard the night before,” says Mr. [...]
Blush, Babble, Cringe: The Shy Social Butterfly?
Most people who know me believe I’m really outgoing. I’ve held hands with strangers who were nervous on planes, made a friend while shopping for ties at Saks and once called a wrong number and chatted away—for 10 minutes.
Cocktail parties? Interviewing someone important for work? Speaking in public? Not (typically) a [...]
Why Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller Than Men-Owned Ones?
The phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses has made headlines for three decades—women consistently have been launching new enterprises at twice the rate of men, and their growth rates of employment and revenue have outpaced the economy.
So, it is dismaying to see that, despite all this progress, on average, women-owned business [...]
