Archive for the ‘Management’ Category

Does Your Company Support Your Blog?

As much as you think blogging and social networking are mainstream, corporate America has not caught up quite yet. Many companies are fearful that they are losing control of their brand -- and they are. Companies are trying to put together social media guidelines as quickly as possible, so that employees know what they can and cannot say online, concerning their brand. You've probably seen a blog… Continue reading

September 28 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: blogging, marketing, personal branding, social-media | 14 comments»

A 6-Step Guide to Networking for First Year MBA Students

If you are a first year MBA student, especially if you are at a lesser-known MBA program, networking is going to be an essential component to landing your summer internship. Start Early If there’s any piece of advice that I would give first year MBA students it’s that your job search stats the day you start school, and if you are really a go-getter even before you arrive at school. There are… Continue reading

September 24 2009 | By | Tagged: business, career, education, networking, planning, student, success, work-life | 3 comments»

Break the Rules

Many of the rules that apply in businesses were set years ago and have endured by force of habit. A good example is the QWERTY keyboard, which is in use on all desktop computers. The original QWERTY layout of keys on the typewriter keyboard was designed in the 1870s to slow down the speed of typing because fast operators were causing typewriter keys to jam together. By… Continue reading

September 22 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: assumption, branson, innovation, roddick, rules, swatch, virgin | 17 comments»

Ten Great Ways to Crush Creativity

Leaders have more power than they realize. They can patiently create a climate of creativity or they can crush it in a series of subtle comments and gestures. Their actions send powerful signals. Their responses to suggestions and ideas are deciphered by staff as encouragement or rejection. If you want to crush creativity in your organization and eliminate all the unnecessary bother of innovation then here… Continue reading

August 28 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, culture, idea, innovation, leader, leadership | 21 comments»

The Era of the Unintentional Entrepreneur: An Interview with Kevin Reeth of Outright.com (Part 3)

This is the third and final installment of my interview with Kevin Reeth of Outright.com (See Part 1 and Part 2). In this part of the interview, I talk to Kevin about the new organization he’s helped create, Unintentional Entrepreneur, which is currently holding events around the country to help provide newcomers to the world of entrepreneurship with the tools and skills they need to get started… Continue reading

August 24 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, freelance, self-employment, small business, solopreneur | 3 comments»

The Era of the Unintentional Entrepreneur: An Interview with Kevin Reeth of Outright.com (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this interview, Kevin Reeth (Co-founder and CEO of Outright.com) and I discussed some of the challenges and benefits of entrepreneurship and the emergence of a new breed of “unintentional entrepreneurs” – people who, because of the economic downturn, find themselves exploring the possibility of going freelance, starting their own business, or hiring out as a consultant. In part 2, we discuss some of the… Continue reading

August 21 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, freelance, self-employment, small business, solopreneur | 11 comments»

The Era of the Unintentional Entrepreneur: An Interview with Kevin Reeth of Outright.com (Part 1)

With a background including successful stints with Yahoo, eGroups, and Intuit, Kevin Reeth was well-prepared to strike out on his own as a co-founder and CEO of the web start-up Outright.com, a free online bookkeeping platform for small businesses and self-employed persons. In today’s economic climate, though, more and more people are finding themselves thrown into entrepreneurship without a background like Reeth’s as their companies fold or downsize leaving… Continue reading

August 20 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, freelance, self-employment, small business, solopreneur | 1 comment»

How to do Good AND Make a Profit

With the world economic and business outlook still so uncertain, a key question is just how the businesses world can continue to do good as well as maintain their bottom line.Over the last few years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become such a buzz word for business people with companies sprouting all sorts of CSR initiatives, but are companies really embracing CSR because they believe in it or are they… Continue reading

August 18 2009 | By Arvind | Tagged: business, mission, social-responsibility, vision | 16 comments»

What You Need To Know To Make Sense of Business Bartering

Bartering, trading one good for another, is becoming increasingly popular as the value of the dollar continues to plummet. There are several bartering systems available online (some better than others) and activity on these web sites has increased as the economy has gotten more and more troubled. However, when you move into cashless economies, it's easy to get sucked in. Here are a few things you need to know to… Continue reading

August 4 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: barter, cashless-economy, home-based-business, Management, small business, swap, trade, work-from-home | 11 comments»

How to Be A Good Web Firm Consumer

So you've hired a web firm to design your new web site. Now what? Today I'm completing my Business Web Series and talking about what you can do to be a good consumer of web site developers and designers.Just like most business owners have tales of woe from having their web sites designed, most web developers and designers have stories of their own. Educate yourself, hire the right experts to… Continue reading

July 16 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, small business, web-design, web-site | 2 comments»

How to Hire A Web Design Firm

How many times have you heard stories of people who hired web firms to design and develop their web sites and either got substandard sites or the developer ran off with their money? Or what about the entrepreneur who "hired" his nephew/friend/daughter to design the site for free, and the results were disasterous and this small business owner didn't feel comfortable offering much constructive criticism on a job done for… Continue reading

July 3 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, home-based-business, small business, web-design, website | 12 comments»

How to Get Promoted

If you work in a large organization and are ambitious for career progression then here are a number of things that you can do to assist your journey.1. Do your job well. I know that this is stating the obvious but it is the starting point. For promotion it is a necessary but not a sufficient requirement that you perform your current duties diligently. Many people think that this is… Continue reading

June 22 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: ambition, ambitious, career, corporate, manager, progression, promotion, work | 16 comments»

5 Components Your Business Web Site Needs

Last week I talked about why a strong web site is crucial to your business. Today I'm going to talk about five components your web site needs and why you need them. Bear in mind, however, that these five aren't the only components you need. At the end of the article, I'll mention a couple of other things you may want to include. Now, you can't just slap these components… Continue reading

June 17 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: content, entrepreneur, home-based-business, small business, website | 18 comments»

Are you Satisfied?

In September of 1960, J.F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon in the first presidential candidates’ debate. Kennedy’s opening statement in that debate has now become the famous “I am not satisfied” speech. What Kennedy’s team rightly strategized was that in any competitive environment, political or businesses, sustainable success starts with focusing on your own house. You will not win the race by focusing on the competition. There are a number of reasons for this... Continue reading

June 16 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: branding, business, coaching, competition, customer, entreprenuership, leadership, Management, marketing, success | 6 comments»

Why A Good Web Site Matters To Your Business

For most businesses, a web site is one of the most important investments you can make. Entrepreneurs are either overspending or underspending on their web sites, and many have no idea what they're doing or why. So today I'm going to talk about why a good, solid web site really matters to your business, and in the next two weeks, I'll follow up with articles on the core components your… Continue reading

June 9 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: entrepreneur, Management, small_business, Technology, web_site | 32 comments»

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