Small Business Consulting for the Self-Employed
No, it's not "spring cleaning" time, but if you're like me, you're constantly looking for ways of de-cluttering your office. Do you have an old filing cabinet or computer you want to get rid of? Consider giving it away for free. The FreeCycle Network is a group of people assisting each other to give away any item for free (instead of it ending up …
The Green Office: Give for Free, Get for Free with FreeCycleRead More
I posted this on the blog back in 2006, but this seems a good time to re-post, with the economy in a bad way as it is. We can all use a little prosperity in our lives, financial or otherwise. It's Lynn Robinson's Prosperity Prayer: Dear God — I surrender my financial affairs and concerns about money to your Divine care and love. I ask that you …
Failure. No one likes to talk about it. And when we do talk about it, we like to feel there is some deeper meaning or learning in every business failure we have. I suppose it helps us to feel that we didn't go through a bad time in vain. Barry Moltz's book, Bounce!, talks about failure in a different way. Gone are the platitude, replaced by the …
Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) follows nearly 5,000 businesses founded in 2004 and tracks them over their early years of operation. Here are some interesting results: More than a third of businesses (37 percent) had no revenue in their first year of operation while about 17 percent of businesses had profits in excess of $100,000. Just under 9 …
When I first started coaching, I bought a telephone headset so that I could speak with clients while still taking notes. Five years ago I graduated from a wired phone headset to a wireless phone headset... freedom at last! Now when I speak with clients on the phone I can get up and move around. Not just around my office either: my cordless …
My Favorite (Office) Things: Wireless Phone HeadsetRead More
There's a new website in town and it's going to clear your desk forever. Catalog Choice is a free website that helps you to remove yourself from paper catalog mailing lists. If you're like me, this seems to be the perfect month to declutter the office, file away those piles of paper, and generally clean up to start a new year. After the onslaught …
