Benefits of Home-Based Businesses
“52% of all small businesses are home-based.” – Survey of Business Owner, US Census
FOR ENTREPRENEUR & BUSINESS OWNERS
Small Business Owners wear too many hats, while trying to maintain work/life balance and make the most of our time. Here’s how.
How to Attain Corporate Sponsors
Non-profit organization and community event organizers need funds to promote their cause, and the every year, corporations spend millions of dollars on cause-related marketing and event sponsorships. Organizations that become good sponsorship partners realize that this is a business deal, not just a donation.
Corporate Sponsorships – Why & How?
What is a Corporate Sponsorship? “To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. A sponsor is the individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor.” – Wikipedia
End of the Year Analysis for your Business
Business Owners: It’s Time to Review With two weeks left to the year and even less of actually work days, now would be a good time to look back and review what you’ve accomplished in 2013.
How to Market your Event
Whether planning a networking event, a workshop or seminar, a charity event or business open house, the planning challenges are the same. You need to rent a comfortable and professional venue, you should book an engaging and knowledgeable speaker, choose a menu of light refreshments or meal, and determine an available date and time where…
The Power of Referrals
Why Powerful? Referrals are the most cost-effective and most valuable form of marketing. Why? Because referrals, coming from friends, family or colleagues, have a great deal of trust and credibility. They are a powerful tool because they come from a credible third-party that has experienced first-hand the benefits of your product or service and your…
Free Website Builders – Is Free really Free?
This week a certain very frustrating sounding man called asking if I could help him. He said he started a website with one of the more popularly advertised FREE website builders and he couldn’t get the placement of his headers or subheadings right. He offered to pay whatever I wanted to help him sort out…
Mastering Time Management Skills
“Time is Money” – Benjamin Franklin “Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.” – Alan Lakein
Give Back to your Community & It Will Give Back to You
More and more businesses these days are finding ways to give back to their community through philanthropy, through pro-bono work, through employee-volunteer incentives, or product/service donations to raise money, and increasingly finding that the more they reach out to help their communities, the more rewards they are reaping.
Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
Fear of Public Speaking – A Common Phobia Public Speaking Anxiety, also known as, Glossophobia is much more common than you think. An estimated 75% of all people experience some degree of anxiety/nervousness when public speaking. Some common symptoms of this condition include:
“Good design is Good Business”
“Good design is good business” – Thomas J. Watson (former Chairman & CEO of IBM) Whether you own a restaurant, a boutique, a second-hand shop, a retail store, hotel, bed-and-breakfast, or any commercial space where customers visit … the way you showcase your product or service in and outside of your brick-and-mortar establishment can…
Are you having fun in your Business?
Yes, it is possible to have fun, be inspired and still run a business. How? Sometimes we get so bogged down with the busy work of running our businesses that we forget the initial excitement and inspiration that drove to take that leap into business-ownership! Sometimes with all the stresses, the to-do lists and the monotony we simply…