By Beth Kotz One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make when getting started is not fully separating their business and personal expenses. Choosing to put business purchases on your personal credit card, or going over your business budget and using personal funds to escape debt, are dangerous habits that put your personal credit score at […]
By Jeff Davidson You often see “employee of the month” plaques in hotels and other service-oriented businesses, but such systems actually work to the detriment of the business. For one, employees who win are not likely to feel as motivated in subsequent months. They might already know that nobody wins twice in the same year […]
By Tiffany McAdams As a small business owner, you probably surround yourself with fellow entrepreneurs. If so, you may have noticed something about entrepreneurial culture, and that is an obsession with working really hard. How many times have you heard other entrepreneurs boast about putting in 60, 70, even 80 hours a week? If you don’t […]
By John Tschohl We live in a very dynamic world. What we know now will not be good enough for the future. Selecting people to move us forward and who are open to learning is what we need to focus on. In my book, Moving Up, I tell readers it’s about your life…it’s about succeeding. […]
One of the easiest ways to gain Twitter followers on autopilot is to establish a free Paper.li publication that centers around your interest area. When you first create your newspaper – which publishes each day – you have options on where it should draw the articles that it features. If you select Twitter and some […]