photo by Noodle93 Do you know the origin of the word cliché? (from a Seth Godin post): In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a […]

Small businesses are a tricky thing – there are lots of mistakes that business owners can make.  Not paying attention to their customers, not keeping up with technology, constantly trying to be a hero, not understanding cash flow!  All of these will eventually kill or cripple your business, but the biggest impact, the mistake that […]

  photo by Alan Cleaver Business growth can be a scary proposition…obviously it’s better than business failure, but there are a whole set of fears centered around business growth and success that plague a lot of business owners. When your business starts succeeding beyond where you’ve been for a while, you leave your comfort zone…you […]

photo by LaserGuided As a business owner, there are all sorts of places where you can pick up great information.  This week if you were lucky enough to be at the Principal Connections monthly networking event – you would have picked up some great business tips from Jonathan Freiden and Seth Freiden – brothers and […]

   photo by Rhett Maxwell When was the last time you took a few minutes…or better yet a few hours and really thought through what you wanted to get out of your business and what your exit strategy might be?  Have you looked at the end of the rainbow at all? Even if you have […]

  photo by TheBusyBrain It can be really tough to explain to people why they should spend their hard earned money with you rather than the competition. As an example, let’s pretend that you have a catering company…and that your target market is the business crowd – larger groups that like a variety of hot […]