Do you have a business secret to share? Would you be willing to help other business owners by sharing your secret? Helping other business owners by sharing a secret business tip can be rewarding. A business tip can be finance advice or marketing advice or it might even be business management advice. Regardless of what type of advice you give, you business tip could even help a business owner turn their business around.
As business owners begin to share business tips others can learn from them and grow their business. So I want to start with my list of three business …read more

By Guest Blogger Trevor Ginn
Being short of time is a job hazard of running a business. Every day there will be ten equally important tasks demanding attention and in many cases, there will be no opportunity to delegate the work. It is therefore important to think about how to use time effectively and consider strategies for cutting down on time consuming, but unnecessary activities. Here are some tips.
Avoid unnecessary meetings. Meetings are hugely time consuming and often not that productive. Try and get things agreed via email or phone if at all possible and only have a face to face …read more

What’s your business secret for successfully planning your business strategy? Do you have special things that you do that evolve around social media or your website? How have you been able to make yourself stand-out in the crowd? When you share some of your simple business secrets, it can help other business owners.

The purpose of this article is to get feedback from you, the reader, regarding business secrets that you have for success. So what I want to encourge you to do is watch the video below to hear two business secrets from two different business owners. Then, share how …read more

By Guest Blogger Adam Bullied
This is the final segment in a three-part series about Basic Strategy. Read Part I and Part II.
Short Case Study 1: General Electric
OK, bad to start off with a big monolithic company when I’ve spent the entire post talking about keeping things simple and lightweight, right? Well, possibly. But in reality, this is one of the best examples ever of corporate strategy put in to action and achieving the intended results.
When Jack Welch took over GE in 1981, GE was, by all accounts and measures, and insanely successful organization. But he saw room for vast improvement …read more

Whether you own your own company, work for someone else, or are considering starting a business, you can learn about being successful and profitable by reading business tips from other entrepreneurs and experts.
DK Publishing puts out a wonderful series called Essential Managers. The Essential Managers books are practical, paperback guides about some of today’s hottest business topics.
This week, we are giving five readers the opportunity to win two of the books.
Green Business
Everyone is interested in going green with eco-friendly business practices. Green Business gives hard-working guidance on how to do business ethically and sustainably, while still turning a tidy profit.
Achieving …read more

The Small Business Association (SBA) has teamed up with 21 federal agencies, collectively known as the Business Gateway, to create an online community for small businesses. The site, located at community.business.gov, provides forums and resources to help small business owners with legal requirements and other business tips.
On the site, business owners and other visitors can find links with information about starting a business, staying compliant with lawas and regulaation, financial and tax tips, and more.
The community combines discussion forums, blogs and other tools as part of the Obama White House’s mission to “create a transparent and connected democracy.”
“Over the past …read more

As a business owner, it is always a great idea to have a mentor as you manage your business. A mentor can help direct you in the right direction as you plan out your business. Below are a series of questions that I asked my Twitter followers along with their responses about working with a business guru.

Unless you are NEW, you are boring.  You have to keep re-inventing yourself.  The best way to keep customers coming back to your small business is to be constantly creating something new and exciting.  You may be thinking, “My products and services are exciting,”  But if you aren’t creating something new, you are not going to survive.
Case in point: I love Z-Coil shoes.  I I have arthritis in my knees, and these shoes have helped me be able to walk comfortably; in fact,  they keep me from having surgery.  Over the past couple of years, I have purchased almost every …read more

Have you been looking for ways to recession proof your business? Then I have a few things to share with you that will help you think about ways that you can recession proof your business.
According to Webster.com, one definition of recession is a period of reduced economic activity. As a business owner, reduced economic activities could mean that a financial crunch could hit your business hard. Some of the ways that you can use to recession proof your business are:

Develop joint ventures (JVs) with business partners who can share the expenses of running a business. You could both share the expense …read more

As a business owner, I’ve learned to try and find lessons from various sources that can help me manage my business. Some of those lessons were learned recently while I watched MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC). This is the first year that two female groups have made it to the top three. One of them was in the bottom two slots three weeks in a row based on viewer votes but they performed well enough for the judges to end up as one of the top three.
The two groups are Beat Freaks (made it to the top two) and …read more