I’ve been asked quite a few times over the last few months by clients and fellow entrepreneurs whether or not I think they should have their picture displayed on their websites.
This is something I’ve gone back and forth on for my own websites. I think I am definitely leaning toward getting a professional shot […]
Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
How Many Words Is A Picture Really Worth?
September 10, 2007 – 10:14 pm
The Most Powerful Phrase in Business
September 5, 2007 – 10:10 pm
As a small business owner and entrepreneur, I have literally 100’s of conversations with clients and potential clients a week. So many in fact, that I’ve found I can typically anticipate almost every question or inquiry that is coming next. However, there are those times when a prospect or a customer throws something […]
Interesting Small Business Numbers
August 25, 2007 – 10:09 am
I ran across a post over at the Entrepreneurial Mind announcing the release of updated small business statistics by the SBA.
While all of the stats given are interesting, a couple that hit close to home and thus particularly caught my attention:
Small businesses are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
Of the 23 million nonfarm businesses […]
Building Small Business Street Cred
August 20, 2007 – 3:00 pm
I’ve just finished my latest article Building Street Cred for Your Small Business. I’ve been wanting to turn my Road Less Traveled approach into a series of articles and this is the first one that Ive completed!
If you’ve read many of my articles, you’ve noticed that I like to use relevant quotes as a […]
Working at multi-tasking my own life…
August 15, 2007 – 12:34 am
I think it’s funny that my entire work-life is spent helping other business people add more hours to their days and outsource all the minutia that keeps them from focusing on the goal at hand…yet, I’m pretty bad at it with my own business. Granted, being too busy in a small business owner’s life […]
One more reason I love being my own boss!
August 12, 2007 – 6:59 pm
I just found a favorite new place to waste my time online, Tales of Corporate Oppression.
I think my favorite so far has to be #38:
At one call centre I worked at it was policy to use the customer’s name five times, no matter how brief the call.
A friend of mine had a lot of trouble […]
A New Look and a New Outlook
August 5, 2007 – 6:11 pm
Wow, it’s really been since April?! That’s terrible. Here’s the thing…when you’re running your own small business (or four), multi-tasking and prioritizing are absolute necessities. Unfortunately, no matter how much you master either, there are still only 24 hours in each day!
All that said, I have always truly found blogging to be a nice break […]
The Road Less Traveled Update
April 6, 2007 – 2:11 pm
A couple months back, I wrote a post that got, for this blog, quite a bit of attention. In the Road Less Traveled, (minus the glaring spelling error in the very title that has since been corrected ) I discussed my latest marketing plan.
I wonder if anyone is marketing technology services to small town […]
The Road Less Traveled
February 3, 2007 – 2:37 pm
As a virtual assistant and website designer, I’ve been working on a what I’ve found to be a highly underused marketing tactic. I live in Lawrence, KS. We’re a college town which means there are tons of freelance designers in and just out of school. We’re also a stone’s throw from Kansas […]
Are you an entrepreneur?
November 19, 2006 – 2:42 pm
I came across this list of traits of successful entrepreneurs in a wiki on Smallbusiness.com. I thought it was interesting.
persistence
desire for immediate feedback
inquisitiveness
strong drive to achieve
high energy level
goal oriented behavior
independent
demanding
self-confident
calculated risk taker
creative
innovative
vision
commitment
problem solving skills
tolerance for ambiguity
strong integrity
highly reliable
personal initiative
ability to consolidate resources
strong management and organizational skills
competitive
change agent
tolerance for failure
desire to work hard
luck
I definitely agree with […]