Category: Success Tips

This Week in Small Business: The graves of failed startups, Facebook’s new local marketing and rockin’ but humble women entrepreneurs

Leadership, management and productivity Whistle through the graveyard of epic startup fails at autopsy.io. Learn from the mistakes of others…before it’s too late! General Stanley McChrystal knows what’s required of leadership if you want people to go to war with you. He gives good advice in this short video. Bosses like to play it safe […]

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Don’t Let ‘Not a problem’ Become Your Small Business’ Problem

“It’s my pleasure.” Those words cost nothing and they should be part of the DNA for any company. They should roll off the lips of retail and service industry employees automatically. And even in B2B settings, the sentiment they express should be part of all customer interactions. You’ll hear these three words if you’re spending […]

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This Week in Small Business: Curating content, enlightening leadership faux pas and get into a top Chinese University

Find out why Americans prefer NOT to work for a family-owned business. (Is yours family owned?) Discover what’s really important about content curating. Add these three things to your to-do list today, and while you’re at it we have six leadership mistakes you need to learn from. Leadership, management and productivity This article on leadership […]

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Find the Best Ways to Strengthen Your Customer Relationships

The most experienced group of small business owners working today are the Baby Boomers and in Bank of America’s spring 2015 Small Business Owner Report, 71 percent said that the relationships they have developed with their customer base has given them repeat business. That’s not a surprise, although Millennials and Gen-Xers aren’t so sure. They attribute […]

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