Talk to successful veterans of the startup world and one piece of advice most will give you is to launch your startup early. Let’s unpack this a little. I suppose we could say that there are three possible times to launch your startup: Early, Right on time, or Late. We can eliminate “late” because by […]
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Staples. All opinions and thoughts are my own. This is probably something that small business owners already know – or at least feel in their bones – but on average they work 52 hours a week, according to a recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index. Further, most work […]
Remember when UPS was going with the slogan, “Moving at the speed of business”? It wasn’t a bad slogan. However, marketing experts say that when UPS dropped “Moving at the speed of business” and adopted “What can brown do for you?” as a slogan and center of its marketing campaigns, the company hit a homerun. […]
Hey small business owner: Would you like to know an easy way to tell if you’re at a higher risk for depression, alcoholism, type-2 diabetes, heart attack, stroke and just about every other modern health and wellness nightmare? You can find out by answering one question: Do you work more than 55 hours a week […]
As a small business owner sometimes it’s easy to feel that big companies enjoy some advantages that will never be available to you. You’ll probably never bring in Emeril Legasse to do a cooking demonstration in your company cantina, right? But what would you think if I told you that you can give employees the […]