Business Blogs: Trends, tips, and real-life anecdotes from industry experts.

Joel’s post on working hard while customers are clamoring for your product or services struck a chord with me. A few of us at PFL were reminiscing yesterday about the "good old days" when we had to come in on Saturdays to process the overflow of orders that had come in during the week. At the [...]

So, I had a meeting with my web developer.
I like to call him, Satan.
Satan asks me, "Don’t you have a weblog?" He adds just the right amount of sarcasm and pretentiousness to his rhetorical questions to boil my blood.
Now, I have heard of Lincoln logs, yule logs, and even cheese logs (which [...]

I read a lot of material every month on how the Boomers are approaching the period of life after age 50.
And what I’m seeing reported in virtually every major newspaper and magazine is that more and more Leading Edge Boomers are showing a willingness to take a calculated financial risk with some of their retirement [...]

We're always uploading new content at StartupNation.com, but lately, we've been especially obsessed with home-based business. We see it as the first frontier of entrepreneurship - the starting point for many and the permanent setting for those who relish the benefits of working at home. Heck, that's why we've launched the Home-Based 100.
One article about [...]

Enough moaning and groaning about all the reasons why you haven’t started your business, or made those important efforts to enhance your business.
It’s way too easy to make excuses… like the ones you used to come up with when your homework wasn’t done for school. But in this case - it’s not a homework [...]

I was just instant-messaging with a small business owner friend of mine who is clearly in need of a Friday afternoon happy hour break from his hectic and wonderfully-full-of-great-business-from-lots-of-clients week.
He shared with me that he'll be working both days this weekend. My IM response to him was …
"Git it while the gittin's good.  Then go [...]

I got a letter from a fan who read about me in this month’s issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, asking me for my advice on how to launch their new eBay business. Specifically, they wanted to know what distributor would give them the best deal on iPods.
This frustrates me….
I’m not frustrated with the person who wrote [...]

I've noticed an extraordinary uptick in my performance lately. There are a few theories bouncing around our small office as to why.
But it's perfectly clear to me. It correlates directly to the day I put up this game changing Post-It Note on my office door:

And since this has been so powerful for me, I thought [...]

Entrepreneurs absolutely have to be scoreboard watchers. By that I mean you must know the statistics (the score) that are critical to your business. We are maniacs about that here at StartupNation.
One of the data points that we pay close attention to is our website analytics. We monitor and chart and graph the number of [...]

Your personal productivity can have a huge impact on the success of your business. If you are an entrepreneur, your personal life and professional life probably jumble up into one big pile for you to sort through on a daily basis. That’s why today I am recommending that you add LifeRemix to your feed reader. [...]