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Seeing that I am working from home and still in the first 6 months of starting my business, I am finding professional online communities very helpful.  Not only is it an opportunity to learn from others in a given profession but also provides a social network of people working towards similar goals.  In fact I was surprised to [...]

Hi gang,
I’m seeing a lot of chatter out there that eBay is announcing some moderate to “what the hell?” changes pretty soon.   In the last several years,  eBay will announce something heavy sometime in the 3rd quarter to give all the sellers a chance to react to them before Christmas.
There’s lots of speculation out there about [...]

I recently spoke with Shashi Srikantan, founder of Quench Bath and Body, on StartupNation Radio. Her company offers bath and body products from around the world. What a star she is!
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Though she’s just recently become an entrepreneur, thanks in part to her use of our StartMeUp! program, Shashi has always been interested in beauty products.  [...]

The workplace has been established as one of the priority settings for health advancement. Having wellness in the workplace is not just for a big business it is also for small businesses. As entrepreneurs, you can encourage wellness, too.
Implementing a “healthy workplace” you can reap the benefits. They can include increased employee morale; decreased absenteeism [...]

I hate to see summer go. Why?
The hot days? Nah. The ample sunshine? Uh-huh. The carefree days? Get real.
I miss the presence of my free (sorta free) labor source: my children. During the summer, you’ll find my kids stuffing envelopes, stacking boxes, and even helping me with their computer-savviness. As you’ll recall, I have none.
While [...]

You developed your business idea, closed on deals with suppliers, ordered your inventory of products, written your business plan, incorporated, and raised the money you need to get started. Now what? Every aspiring entrepreneur should put considerable thought into building a solid infrastructure and eventually constructing a team full of key players.

First, find and investigate [...]

When I first decided to start a clothing line I thought I would be able to do the designing, technical specs, patterns, samples, marketing and business administration all myself.  Now that I am a few months into it I am realizing that if I want to have a viable business that makes a profit I [...]

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QVC Does Over 8 Billion Dollars Of Business Every Year! Let me teach you how to “Get your slice of the pie! “
Learn what it really takes to get your products onto the worlds largest electronic retailer!
Come spend an hour with me. Learn how I got my products on QVC, and how you can too. I [...]

The numbers are gloomy. Statistics show that of one hundred new business startups, eighty will be out of business within five years. Too often, the causes of these failures are recurring inefficiencies and their offspring: fire-killing and distraction. Most business owners wake up in the morning with only a vague sense of their ultimate, primary [...]

I have a rule: the number of things you have to do will increase in an exponential proportion to the number of gadgets, whizmos, and whatchee-macallits you own. The corollary, no matter how many gadgets, whizmos, and whatchee-macallits you have, none of them will ever synch up together.
I used to keep mental notes. Then I [...]