Archive for August 26th, 2005
Basic Guide to Small Business Financial Management
Anthony Cerminaro: This website will help you understand basic practices in financial management, and build the basic systems and practices needed in a healthy business.
Purdue to Hold 19th Annual $100,000 Business Plan Competition
Business Plan Coach: I was reading the Inside Indiana and noticed that Purdue University is holding it’s 19th Annual Business Plan Competition. The university says this Fall it will offer six workshops to help prepare teams to write business plans to qualify for the competition. The competition is not entirely closed to Purdue University students [...]
Message from the SBA’s Office of Advocacy
That was scary: moments after I pressed publish on my last, slightly contemptuous post about the SBA, I received this email from the John McDowell of the SBA’s Office of Advocacy. He wrote: Knowing of your interest in small business and entrepreneurship, I thought you might be interested in the resources available from the Office [...]
Are You Really A Small Business?
What’s a small business? Are you a small business? You might think so, but the US Small Business Administration has a comprehensive list of their “requirements” to be considered a small business in various industries. You can see it in this table, the Small Business Size Standards matched to North American Industry Classification System. Feel [...]
Rhonda Abrams: As September rolls around, it’s once again networking season in the business world. As kids go back to school, entrepreneurs once again return to trade shows, Chamber of Commerce mixers and association meetings. And one question comes up repeatedly: “What do you do?” In business, you have to have your “elevator pitch” ready [...]
Entrepreneurs Should Keep Business Simple
USA Today: At the outset of the book Common Sense Business, Gottry espouses the FANAFI principle, which is “find a need and fill it.” The advice he offers is detailed and organized. Small businesses, he says, go through six stages: Dreaming. Planning. Implementation. Growth. Preservation and evolution Selling/divesting. For success during the growth stage, for [...]
Blogads: So if you feel so inclined, please help create Blogads’ new logo. Beyond a bunch of wires connecting 900 blogs to thousands of advertisers, what is Blogads.com? Please write a post describing what you think Blogads is and should be and how our logo might convey this idea. If you aren’t a blogger, offer [...]
Designing A Better Yellow Page Listing
One year ago today: Designing A Better Yellow Page Listing.
