Some Great Twitter Tools

This posting, 10 Twitter Applications for Small Business, provides descriptions and links to some twitter apps that you may not have seen before. With the reality of any small business, ...

Don’t Overlook Insurance When Starting a Business

This article about the insurance needs of pizza delivery companies came out this weekend in conjunction with the Superbowl, but the advice is good for any new business starting up. Don’t ...

Take Control of Your Work Life. How? Open a Business!

Like it or not, working is a fact of life for the majority of us. We are pretty much guaranteed to spend at least 40 years at a full-time job…longer ...

Starting a Business? Bargains abound in commercial real estate.

The news reports are full of stories about occupancy rates being at record lows for commercial real estate. Many of these stories are told in depressing terms — and how ...

Starting a Business is a Path to Higher Income and Wealth

A study recently released by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy found that small business owners, as a group, experienced substantial gains in real income and wealth from ...

Decision-making — Finding a Happy Medium

One of my favorite children’s books, A Wrinkle in Time, has a character called the “Happy Medium.” It is a play on the adage of needing to find a happy ...

Do We Really Need a Written Partnership Agreement?

We recently held a coaching session with a small business that has been in business for about a year. It was started by two friends as equal partners. Each brought ...

Are You an Accidental Entrepreneur?

This article from MSNBC.com describes the lives of several “accidental entrepreneurs” who started their own businesses when they were unable to find a job working for someone else. One, Andy ...

Great things about starting your own business

Just read this article/interview about a small Chicago pizza shop that stays small and limits their hours of operation even though they have the customer demand to expand or grow. ...

Build a Better Business with Outsourcing – How to Outsource

If you are thinking of outsourcing as part of your business plan, this article form Entrepreneur.com, Build a Better Business with Outsourcing – How to Outsource, provides a great introduction ...