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As a mom and entrepreneur, I straddle my time between 2 different departments for lack of a better explanation.  I have my business goals, obligations, and deadlines/timelines, BUT I also have a responsibility to my family. Most importantly, I need to make it a priority to enjoy real-time with my sons.  I am not who [...]

Did you remember to add PR to your marketing plan?
Public Relations (PR) is all about communicating a specific message about your products and services to a targeted market, especially the media.
Basically, if a reporter writes a feature story about your business, your site traffic increases. Plus, this media clip provides third-party credibility you cannot purchase through [...]

There are a few very important questions to ask yourself before you can grow. There’s nothing worse than scaling a business and realizing that you weren’t ready for it.
Do I have enough team power?
Your team needs to be ready for the increased amount of pressure from your stakeholders, including managing new customers and existing customers, [...]

I am big on the importance of finding a mentor and creating a support network as a mompreneur, entrepreneur, solopreneur, or whatever-preneur.  I do not mean the same type of support network that we have with our close friends and family, but rather a group of individuals or peers that share ideas with one another [...]

Your phone stops ringing.
You don’t get a response for your proposals.
The competition steals your business.
Yep. We’ve all been there. It’s not fun, but frustration is a part of business.
Instead of taking it personally, you need to move on to the next opportunity. And this can be easier said than done so here are three, quick [...]

Small businesses have it good. They get all the attention from the media because they’re always fighting some incredible uphill battle against the titans of the industry like Amazon is for ecommerce. They also get tons of benefits from programs sponsored by Microsoft and other large companies looking to help small businesses get off the [...]

SAN JOSE (Startupnation.com) - To enhance the recent fee changes that will force sellers to offer free shipping, eBay announced this morning that all sellers must offer their items for sale for free as well.
The new program will be called “FreeBay”, and will be effective as of April 10th.
“We have really been listening to the [...]