Startup pitfalls to avoid So you want to be an entrepreneur, eh? Get ready for the ride of your life. Following our passions gives us a feeling of vivacity that is infectious. We get tunnel...
"Must Have" Planning Strategies According to the United States Small Business Association and the Internal Revenue Service’s 2011 survey, only about 10 percent of business owners are making more than $100,000 in their business. What...
How Entrepreneurs Can Reduce Expenses Without Sacrificing Service Quality Regardless of where you are in your business building process, you’re likely trying to find a way to reduce your expenses and manage costs so that...
Proposal Writing: The Order Of Importance For Your Selling Arguments Why are some proposals a success when others aren’t? Why do some people rise to the top of their sales organization and some don’t? Are...
Prepping Your Food Business To Raise Capital Online Gil Michel-Garcia has mastered the technique of crowdfunding, raising more than $1 million for his food-based company. Through popular websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the Internet...
How to Transition from Hobbyist to Business Owner Making money from your hobby is not synonymous with having a business. Unfortunately, far too many people don’t understand that. What’s the difference between a hobbyist and...
Getting your exercise is good for both you and your business We all have busy, ever-changing schedules. We all know how important exercise is. So why is it so hard to stick to any sort...
When He Starts To Despise Your Startup Life Dreams Launching a startup is time consuming. Hours are spent planning, executing, networking, in meetings – it will eat you up around the clock if you let...
The Ultimate Guide to Startup Success (ie. How Not to Fail) Back Office Support Solutions (BOSS) released a comprehensive guide to aid new startups with their business ventures. The Ultimate Guide to Startup Success is...
Is your financial budget all it needs to be? You’ve analyzed your past expenses, put them into spreadsheets, loaded Quicken with all of your data and come up with a budget. Now what? The tough...
Make sure your financial budget is on track for your business' success! You’ve analyzed your past expenses, put them into spreadsheets, loaded Quicken with all of your data and come up with a budget. Now...
Using customer development to better your product Anita B. Newton has 20 years of experience helping large marketing organizations such as P&G and Sprint and small companies like Zave Networks, which has since been acquired...
The Quick-And-Dirty Fundraising Plan You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint. You wouldn’t cook a new dish without a recipe. You wouldn’t take a road trip without a map. Why should your fundraising be...
Common Mistakes of Startup Budgets Even though startups are meant to focus on the creative work, they cannot escape that one thing, which always comes up whenever we talk about business: financial management. A good...
President Obama Signs Into Law New Authority To Help Women Gain Equal Access To Federal Contracting Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Maria Contreras-Sweet, applauded the signing into law of the National Defense Authorization Act...
Build Your Wealth with a Fundamental Strategy Well … wealth building seems like such an easy concept. Get a good education, then a good paying job and keep working hard, and earn more. Many of...
Nurse gets entrepreneurial inspiration from her family Surgical nurse Neeta Tvelil said she was tired of picking up towels from the bathroom floor. She had three sons within five years and needed to cut down her...
Tapping into your customers’ needs: Get the low down from Lauren Gilchrist “Make sure you understand the person that has the problem.” Seems like a simple enough idea to comprehend. But each year numerous startups...
Stephanie MacConnell, CEO and co-founder of SpareStub, Astoria, N.Y. Here at Lioness Magazine we like to talk to entrepreneurs to find out what makes them who they are and "why" they decided to become a...
Blending old and new employee recruitment strategies ManpowerGroup Solutions Recruitment Process Outsourcing, the global leader in the industry within ManpowerGroup, asserts that recruiters must have a broad set of hard and soft skills to attract...