Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

What Cooking and Business Have in Common

When you first begin to learn to cook you learned from other people. You may have learned to cook from someone in your family, or you may have learned how to cook by following the recipes and instructions from a cookbook. Some people learned by watching television cooking shows, reading blogs and watching videos or…

A New Business Partner

I’ve often thought about having a business partner, someone I could share the ups and downs of growing a business with, someone to explore new ideas with and someone who totally ‘got’ me and accepted me – the awesome, the good, the bad and the ugly. Several times in the past I thought I had…

3 Ways to Find the Support You Need for You and Your Business

“The E-Myth credo – Don’t work IN your business, work ON it.” ~ Michael E. Gerber When you first start your own business more than likely you have to do everything. You’re CEO, COO, chief fulfillment officer, customer service director, PR, HR, IT support, web designer, copywriter, janitor, and on and on. It’s all great…

Learn to Earn

I’ve been reading Loral Langemeier’s “The Millionaire Maker: Act, Think, and Make Money the Way the Wealthy Do”. One of the messages she repeats is to “learn to earn”, which basically boils down to starting your first business doing something you already know how to do, but may not necessarily love or want to do…

Should the Economy Stop You From Starting Your Own Business? Part Two

Continuing this weeks theme, today I want to introduce you to four women who have launched their own businesses over the last eighteen month, despite the economy. But, before I do, I want to tell you that if it weren’t for Twitter I would have never met any of these women. Don’t let anyone try…

Should the Economy Stop You From Starting Your Own Business? Part One

Time and again I hear from friends and clients, “I want to start my own business, but the economy is just so bad right now I think I should just stay where I’m at and keep doing what I’m doing.” Their voices are usually tinged with sadness and resignation. Their words and their feelings upset…

Fuzzy Logic to Prove We Are Unique

When you work for yourself sometimes you fall into a comparison trap. Our ideas excite us, but when we look around it seems like lots of other people are doing the same. We begin to question our own idea and wonder to ourselves “why would anyone be interested in the same product or service from…

Small Business Saturday

I try to support small businesses locally as often as I can. When I’m in the mood for an everything bagel, Olivia’s Bagels are the best. Coffee? Casa de Coffee outshines Starbucks every time. Local, family owned restaurants, especially Italian food, are my favorites. Family owned, local bakery’s also top my favorite, small business list….

One Year Later and I Don’t Want to Ever Go Back

On November 4, 2009 I headed out the door at 6:45am for my very last day as an employee. I thought it would be a day of well-wishes and thank you’s, but it didn’t quite turn out that way. There were no parties, “no good luck, thank you for twelve years of dedicated service” luncheon….

Starting a New Profit Center for Free

If you work for yourself full-time, or even considering doing something on-the-side, part-time, to earn a little extra money it’s never been as easy to start than it is today. There are so many FREE tools available online that will help you plan, organize, collaborate, promote, and sell that it’s difficult to use the excuse,…