Hooray the Freelance Economy
Scott Shane's recent article on Business Week is called, "Beware the Freelance Economy." In it, he posits that cheering for the increased number of new businesses is premature, since so ...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Personality tests are one of my favorite types of brain candy. I find something innately amusing about trying to discern something about someone's psyche from how they answer a quiz ...
Building a Word-of-Mouth Proce
In the American Express OPEN Forum article, Effective Word-of-Mouth is Made Not Born by Yvonne DiVita of Windsor Media Enterprises, the author discusses some tips to cultivating what is called ...
Using Tech to Make More Busine
I grew up in a family-owned business. I remember, back in the early 1980's, when my mother (the bookkeeper) got her first computer for the business: it was a Data ...
A Business for Your Life
One of the most compelling reasons for an entrepreneur to strike out on his or her own is lifestyle. For some people it might be health reasons or inability ...
Bagging the Elephant
Recently on VentureBeat, author Jacob Brody reported on an entrepreneur's Meetup in NYC where the founders of several successful startups discussed a common sales problem for small businesses: how to ...
Small Business’ Competitive
Author Marc Compeau recently wrote an article on Forbes entitled, Cost-Cutting Won't Get You There. In it he touches on many points that seem to be recurring lately. First, the idea ...
A Pragmatic New Year
Well, I can't say that I'm sorry to have seen 2009 go. Personally and professionally, it was one hell of a rough year. On the other hand, it ...
My Favorite Bloggers
As someone who consumes most of her daily doses of new information through the blogosphere (as opposed to traditional media), there are different bloggers I read for different reasons. As ...
Grumble, Bumble, Facebook Trou
I was reading an article this weekend, on Entrepreneur.com, and it actually made me a little snarky. In Health Insurance, a 401(k) and...Facebook?, author Justin Petruccelli discusses a new ...
Why Customer Service Matters
Many people don't think about it specifically, but know it intuitively: if you want good customer service, skip the big guys and go to a small company. In Small ...
Building a Sales Pipeline
There is nothing harder for a non-salesperson than building a sales pipeline. In Bagging the Elephant I highlight a post about a recent event in NYC, in which entrepreneurs ...