Famous Last Words

by | Friday | Business

by Michael Wade:There are certain lines that signal impending doom. Common ones are:Let’s run it by Finance.The CEO’s spouse has a special interest in this topic and just wants to see the plan.We tried something sorta like that seven years ago but the...

Profile of the Entrepreneurial Generation

by | Tuesday | Business

By Anita Campbell on Startup Trends Professor Cornwall, Director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship , profiles today’s young entrepreneurs — those 30 years old and younger. Quoting remarks from a speech he made at the Forbes Enterprise Awards: One...

How Three Businesses Attracted New Customers

by | Monday | Business, Business Strategy

By Anita Campbell on Startup Trends Three more businesses are now featured in the Spotlight section of the JumpUp.com community website. I want to point them out to you, because each overcame a business challenge similar to one you may be facing: how do you attract...

10 Reasons Proposals Fail

by | Thursday | Business, Proposals

From The Instigator Blog:—————————Your business is great. You’ve invented something better than sliced bread. You offer such an amazing service at such a great price that people should be knocking your door down....

ARSE: The Asshhole Rating Self Exam

by | Monday | Business

From Guy’s Blog:______________By GuyKawasaki Bob Sutton and the mavens at Electric Pulp have created the ARSE (Asshole Rating Self Exam) to help people to determine if they are assholes. This is an offshoot from Bob’s book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a...

The Less I Do, the More I Make

by | Wednesday | Business

Good stuff via Duct Tape Marketing:—————————-The trap of the small business owner is, that in many cases, to grow a business to some level of success means putting your head down and working real hard doing the...