Category: Operations

Dec 17 2007

On Line Assistance for Entrepreneurs

My fav magazine, Entrepreneur, now has an on line computer resource center offering:

Create text documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Save your favorite Entrepreneur stories and web pages.

Dec 15 2007

Clever Name: Valuable Retail Owner Information

After almost 20 years in retail, I'm on the look out for new resources, sites and books that help the retail owner be successful.

As a business owner you live and die by ROI: Return on investment…

Nov 30 2007

Challenges of Working From Home

I just opened a new file to begin an article, turned my back for a moment and…well, you can see for yourself – Maya decided to join the process.

Just one of the challenges of working from home.

Nov 06 2007

Are You a Fox or a Hedgehog?

I have a never ending list of books that I want to read; many of which I already own and a couple I plan to write, but one that is on my list is Good to Great by Jim Collins.

Tonight while attendin…

Nov 02 2007

Is It In Writing?

This month's E-Myth newsletter talks about the importance of having procedural manuals for your business. I know I am guilty of being without a written process for my business, but I keep tellin…

Oct 15 2007

Blog Action Day: Recycle

It's Blog Action Day and bloggers all over the world are participating by dedicating day's post to efforts to save our environment.

One of my customers, PageMax, is doing double duty when it…

Oct 07 2007

It’s Your Choice: How do You Choose?

I'm trying to loose weight. In an effort to embrace my new life, aka single and over fifty, I have shifted my focus from what everyone else needs from me to what I need for me.

One of which is…

Sep 29 2007

Entrepreneur Names Top 500 Entrepreneurs

In Entrepreneur magazine last month they listed the top 500 entrepreneurial businesses in the US. The majority were men (88%) and the average age – 44. Most got their start-up funds from their own s…

Aug 17 2007

Productive Work: Is It Only Between 9-5?

This is the library at the Chautauqua Institute in New York. An institute of music, art, philosophy and religion that has been in place since 1874. I am here this week studying and writing my book The…

Jul 09 2007

Small Business Lessons from a Lemonade Stand

It's summertime and lemonade stands run by elementary school entrepreneurs have popped up all over town. When I was that age I didn't have a lemonade stand but I did find things to make, put i…