Small Business 101

Trust your team, grow your business

April 8, 2011
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I have a confession to make – I’m a control freak. But by growing the team I work with over the last year, I’m learning to let go. We’ve added some quality folks to the team and it’s a whole lot easier to let go of responsibility when you are putting it in capable hands. [...]

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Learn How to Build Your Email List (FAST) with Webinars

March 29, 2011

Today we have a special guest post from my friend Derek Halpern. It’s special for two reasons. First, I am going to leave it posted for two days. Second, I believe Derek’s new free webinar is that important and everyone trying to build an email list should attend. Read what Derek has to say and [...]

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Small business resource that will save you time and money

March 28, 2011

A while back my Third Tribe Marketing friend Matt Mansfield interviewed me for his “The Elephant in the Could – How Safe is Your Data?” blog post. I enjoyed the “interview” because it turned into a conversation and Matt and I got a chance to know each other better. Matt is a man of integrity [...]

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Small Business 101 Series – Revisited

February 21, 2011

Last July I took a week to share some of my favorite advice for small business owners. As I look back six months later I realize that these five posts represent cornerstones of how I do business. Perhaps it was the writing of the posts that refocused me. Instead I think it was me writing [...]

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How smiles and thank yous pay dividends

February 16, 2011

Earlier today as I was leaving the partner business where I’d spent the last two days, I stopped to say goodbye to Betty, the woman at the front desk. I started with a smile, and then thanked Betty for her help over the last year tracking down invoices and payments. Betty smiled back, and said, [...]

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Accountability Circles

February 10, 2011

Want to stay out of trouble? Of course you do. More success comes your way when you are staying out of trouble. Besides, you wouldn’t be reading this blog is you didn’t want to be more successful. Well here’s a way to improve your success. Create Accountability Circles In six tips for the traveling business [...]

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All costs are variable in the long run

February 2, 2011

One of the things you either learn in business school or in the school of hard knocks is that a business has two kinds of costs: fixed and variable. At least in the short run, that is true. In the long run, a fixed cost can become variable and a variable cost can become fixed. [...]

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Starting a Business in Seven Steps

January 26, 2011

There are many details involved in starting a business. Here, I’ve boiled it down to the seven that I have found to be most important to continuing business success. 1. Open a checking account. The moment you make the decision to go in business for yourself, open a new checking account. Decide how much you [...]

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Kitchen Table Companies Reviewed

January 19, 2011

By now you may have heard that my friends Joe Sorge and Chris Brogan have started Kitchen Table Companies. Kitchen Table Companies is a community for small business owners doing business the old fashioned way – around the kitchen table. Chris started there, so did Joe and hey guess what? – me too! I even [...]

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Changing Business Processes

January 13, 2011

As I closed out my 2010 bookkeeping over the last two weeks, I realized I had done something right about 12 months ago. As I tallied my business auto miles and out of pocket cash expenditures for the year, the process was going much faster than the previous year. I had made two business process [...]

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