Archive for November 3rd, 2004
Small Business Owners Would Do it All Over Again
Anita Campbell: “Small business owners in the U.S. are pretty happy with their lot. The overwhelming majority of small business owners (86%) say they would do it all over again if given the choice to own a business. That is according to a recent Gallup/Wells Fargo survey of U.S. small business owners, as noted by [...]
Entrepreneur: “Complacency is the enemy of small-business success. If you’re not continually asking your best prospects and customers for their business, you can be sure your competitors are. Set up and monitor an ongoing marketing program that reaches out to your past customers and new prospects year-round. The key to success is to have a [...]
Ryan Allis: First of all, if you are on a tight budget, be ever mindful that the last thing you need is overhead. Don’t put the cart before the horse. Find a product. There are products out there. Look through the classifieds. There are people out there who have wonderful products but do not know [...]
The New Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Always On: “To be sure, the entrepreneurs starting companies today are not like the ones we saw, and now ridicule, in the late 90s. But they are also not like the ones we saw in the 80s and early 90s. We are not going back to an earlier breed of entrepreneur. If you are an [...]
I Started A Blog and Flipped It
I sold the Diet Blog today. I didn’t get the $15,000 Jeremy did for his blog, but I haven’t even posted to the site in nearly 6 months. If you want to sell a site, I thoroughly recommend Sedo. I received nearly thirty respectable offers in the month that I had the site listed as [...]
Gladys Edmunds: In the ’60s I ran my growing travel business from home. I worked overtime to make sure that none of my neighbors, clients and especially my landlord would catch me. My security efforts failed. One day my landlord called me with her voice disguised and pretended to be a customer looking for a [...]
If You’re Clueless about Starting Your Own Business
An Amazon Reviewer: “I obtained a copy of ‘Clueless’ from the library, along with several other books on starting a small business. ‘Clueless’ was the only book I read from cover to end over the Christmas holiday season. The book is well-structured and filled with ample information from developing a business plan to marketing your [...]
