Want to succeed in growing your small business? Then one skill you’d be wise to learn is how to manage and motivate millennials. After all, millennials—those born roughly between 1980-2000—are now America’s largest demographic group. While the average age of a small business owner is 50.3 years, many of your employees, not to mention customers, …
You Built It. Now What?
Few things in life beat the excitement of starting a new business or launching a new product. Creating a startup is thrilling. Sure, there’s risk—but risk can be exciting. There’s also challenge and creativity—figuring out how to build something from nothing, finding money, solving problems. But what happens when the startup is started? You built …
7 Can’t-Miss Rules for Small Biz Growth
Ask virtually any small business owner what they want for their company, and the answer is likely to be “more customers, more money, more business.” In other words, they want their business to grow. But how do you get your small business to grow? Like many small business owners, in the beginning of my own …
Why Sex is Holding Women in Business Back
Sexual harassment is one of the many obstacles women entrepreneurs face as they try to grow small businesses into bigger enterprises, as pointed out in a new report, “Tackling the Gender Gap: What Women Entrepreneurs Need to Thrive,” released today by Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. …
Have Five Minutes to Learn How to Grow?
Start small and grow BIG! Learn about bootstrapping in my 5-minute lesson on Google Primer: “Start Small and Grow on Your Own with Bootstrapping.” #sponsored We small business owners never seem to have enough hours in the day to complete all the tasks on our to-do lists—developing new products, searching for new customers, training employees, …
This is the Best City for Women to Start Businesses
If you’re a woman, New York City is the best place in the world to start a business. That’s what Dell — in collaboration with the research company IHS and with participation from the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard — found out when it commissioned research on the best cities for female entrepreneurs to start and scale a high-growth business. In …
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16 Small Business Resolutions for 2016
Lose weight. Quit smoking. Floss. January’s the traditional time for making new year’s resolutions. But in addition to your personal goals, what do you want to achieve in 2016 for your small business? I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s Resolutions for Small Business, and since it’s 2016, it seems only natural that …
8 Branding Tips From Santa
Santa Claus. Stop for a minute and picture Santa. I bet you’ve got a really clear vision: red suit with white trim, big white beard, and pretty chubby. You’ve also got a clear sense of what Santa stands for: giving, jolly, Christmas. And you know how Santa makes you feel: happy. Santa’s a branding genius. And you …
Build Your Team
Where do you see your small business in a year? Five years? You almost certainly want to grow. But if you want to grow, you can’t do it alone. The theme of my special Small Business Week series is “Make this Your Year to Grow.” Today we’re going to focus on a fundamental growth strategy: …
