Does the success of your small business hinge on securing ample credit? As big business expects to report booming second quarter earnings, the red-headed stepchild of commerce is scrambling just to survive, and banks aren’t making it easier. Neither is the Senate’s failure to enact the Obama administration’s bill to incentivize small business lending.
Banks contend [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, August 2, 2010
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Let me start by making one thing clear: Small business and small-minded are NOT synonyms. As a matter of fact, having a big business/big picture mentality is arguably one of the most important elements of growing your small business. In order to attain longevity, financial success, and a solid reputation as a sound business, I’m [...]
morePosted by: Akilah Richards, April 29, 2010
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I met a self employed app designer the other day at the pub. He sounds like he’s got it made, on the cutting edge of technology and chock full of clients. But lo and behold, he’s got the same problem I have; clients not paying up or not doing so soon enough.
There are a few [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 19, 2010
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“The keys to the kingdom are changing hands,” author Daniel Pink starts out in A Whole New Mind (2005). He continues that those who can make ideas mean something are at a higher premium than the traditional doctors, lawyers and MBAs that used to dominate the job market. Many of these positions – artists, storytellers, [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, April 12, 2010
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We’re portable, we can fit in airline seats, corners of pubs and hospital waiting rooms. We’re the very small business, known by our netbooks and our buzzing smart phones. You’ll never find us with paper, writing utensils or staplers; that’s so 2005. Even our products can be small, from resin jewelry to the smallest phones [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, April 8, 2010
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For most freelancers, the period from Thanksgiving to the start of the new year is a slow period – clients are often too busy with the holidays to worry about marketing, publishers tend to close up as employees go on holidays, budgets are often dried up until the new fiscal year starts in January, and [...]
morePosted by: Dustin Wax, January 4, 2010
I heard on NPR once (okay, maybe it was one of those radio pop psychiatrists, but let’s say it was NPR), that when faced with an empty public restroom with multiple stalls, people will almost always bypass the first stall. Their reasoning? They assume that everyone chooses the first stall and therefore it will be [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, December 31, 2009
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People have built small businesses and sole-proprietorships around everything from baking cookies to hunting ghosts. But one class of small business owner, the freelancer, does things a little differently. While some small businesses are location sensitive, many freelancers are like guns for hire, roaming the world (usually via the internet, of course) and providing [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, September 13, 2009
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If you are a small business owner or sole-proprietor who finds work via online job sites boards like Craigslist, chances are you have run into a scam or two in the normal course of bidding on jobs. Experience is generally the best teacher when it comes to avoiding online job scams, but below we [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, September 10, 2009
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Happy Mother's Day, a little belated but no less affectionate (mom). Since we're here to support the mother's with a home based business, the "part-time" Mom, the working Mom (though what Mom isn't working??), I wanted to share as you go back to work, how much you mean to us every day. [...]
morePosted by: Paul O'Brien, May 11, 2009
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