Small Business Owners Wear Many Hats. Are You Wearing the Right Shoes?

There is no shortage of people looking for work, or businesses looking for more business these days! We often talk about wearing different ‘hats’ in business, but this post asks “What shoes are you wearing?” Now before all of my fashionista friends freak out, here’s the disclaimer: This is is a metaphorical question! (I am [...]

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Twitter and the Emergence of A New Market: How Twitter is Disrupting Market Exchanges

Twitter creates a new equal opportunity for individual success based upon the idea of equal access to knowledge and information. The older market was based primarily on unequal access and control over knowledge and capital. This is the difference between a market based on unequal power relationships and open markets based upon equal opportunity for all.

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Small Business Recession Strategy: 10 Way to Start or Build a Small Business During Recession

Are you considering starting a new business? Would you be if “they” weren’t telling you that you are crazy? My husband and I recently launched a new business. I have to admit that it wasn’t exactly “on purpose”, but through a chain of events (that I call “divine intervention”). “Everyone” told us that we should [...]

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“My Economic Serenity Prayer”

God grant me the serenity to accept the Stimulus Plan I cannot change, The courage to create my own, and the wisdom to know the difference!

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Looking for Good News? Look Beyond the Headlines

I was listening to the “Ric Edelman” show on the radio this morning. He had some great insight regarding the current “Economic Headlines”. He pointed out that they all currently contain some variation of “Dow at lowest point in 18 years”, which implies that “the market” is at it’s lowest point in 18 years. The [...]

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