Posts Tagged ‘business’

There is a 97% chance that your office voice mail greeting stinks. Are you an ultraconservative firm? Then you better tune up the voice mail to a white glove level. Are you a high energy firm? Then that voice mail better bring some serious juice. Or are you a poke a little fun at life type fir? Then your voice mail better be like mine:  Read more »

Mom entrepreneurs have advantages. But before you get your undies in a bunch, let's get one thing straight. This is my perspective. A guys perspective. And you're right, I can't relate. I observe, though. And mom entrepreneurs are starting to crush it. Here's how...  Read more »

Everyone has an opinion about your business. Too bad it is often wrong. Here are 54 pieces of bad advice that entrepreneurs have, thankfully, ignored. You should too...  Read more »

It’s YES. The most dangerous, damaging word in business is YES. I know what you are thinking. “What the hell, Mike?" Let me tell you why I'm right...  Read more »

Every entrepreneur at some point or another gets stuck in a rut. Things just come to stand still, and the ideas flow like tar. Cold tar. As always, the TPE community stepped up and shared their best ideas on how to get the brainstorm going again... and to get the good ideas flowing.  Read more »

They say that youth is wasted on the young. Not so quick, bucko. Young entrepreneurs have natural strengths that many of the older folks don't (like risk aversion, for example). Here is a list of the best business ideas for young entrepreneurs prepared by, you guessed it, the TPE community.  Read more »

Check out the huge list of amazing tips (over 190 in total), on how to raise a true blue entrepreneur or just a child who is going to be an entrepreneur of their own life.  Read more »

This may not be the most PC of topics, but I say, screw PC.  Here’s the deal.  As entrepreneurs (especially as women entrepreneurs), we put a lot of time and energy into growing our business.  We get up early, work like crazy, cook, clean, take care of the kids and by the end of the [...]  Read more »

When is the last time you whipped up a batch of Kentucky Fried Chicken at home? Not the time you tried and nearly burned the kitchen down, the time you actually replicated the Colonel’s sacred original recipe? What’s that? You never quite pulled it off? How could you? You didn’t have the recipe. We all know the ingredients of the big food brands – read the label, smarty. But we don’t know the recipe.  Read more »

David Oreck (The Vacuum Guy) Shares Secret To Success The News: CNN Money reports David Oreck’s path from concept to $350M company – and it only took 45 years.  Full report. Why It Matters: The secret formula?  Constant Innovation + Relentless Persistence = “Overnight” Success Venture Capital Funding Dries Up The News: Forbes reports that fund raising via U.S. [...]  Read more »

Shoe string budget or not, miserable economy or not, your long term entrepreneurial success is contingent upon making more than you spend. At the end of the day, all that matters is if you are profitable or not. You get there by making more and spending less. Here are tips for the spending less part:  Read more »

I have had a few aspiring entrepreneurs say to me that they realize they are too young to start a company. They don’t have the real world experience. They won’t be taken seriously. Plus, they have their entire life ahead of them anyway. They elect to wait. I believe that is a mistake. A tragic mistake. There is no time better to start a business then when you are young.  Read more »