Archive for May, 2008
The Rising Cost of Managing Your Small Business.
As we continue to suffer phenomenal gas gasoline prices, struggle through a war that is draining financial reserves, and having to contend with a Presidential election year, what is the small business owner to do? Get organized and develop a plan that will see you through these tough times. So you already have a plan. [...]
Is Your Small Business Going to Survive this recession?
As I have comfortably believed we are not in a recession nor are we going to have to suffer what the media seems to be the grinding halt of the U.S. economy, reports are out today citing just that. We are going to be fine. It is just that the media is fixated on reporting [...]
Economic Hard Times for Business Owners?
Business owners fear not as the economy continues to fluctuate around this correction of the housing markets, soaring fuel prices and a Presidential election year. Most business owners I speak to are indeed a little nervous about the U.S. economy based on what they hear as opposed to what they know about the current economic [...]
Pricing for Profit
Most businesses operate with the idea that profitability is a natural occurrence or that the challenge of developing profitable products or services is so simple that there is never a need to review pricing processes. Â Often times I hear business owners, CEOs and even CFOs touting their business success due to profitable performing products [...]
Small Business Brand Building
Small Business Brand Building Is it possible to build your business as a brand? Of course it is, just ask Dell Computer and Starbuck’s Coffee. Remember that those companies were once a small business that has mushroomed into the behemoths they are today. How did they do that? Simple really, they built their businesses around [...]