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| Innovative business ideas: SMS messaging for groups |
| 2008-07-20 10:41:55 |
You would say that sending text messages from your mobile phone is old technology and that is way too hard to type in something to make it worthwhile. And then, we have mobile phone advertising - I guess this is not news either, and that you saw everything that could be done there.
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| Work “on” your business and not “in” your business |
| 2008-07-16 13:23:50 |
In my article Promote your small business with a press release I’ve said “Being a small business founder I know that sometimes you are so busy with doing the actual work that needs to put cash in your bank that you don’t even get to think at some business processes that are not really so [...]...
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| 9 reasons not to be an entrepreneur (commented) |
| 2008-07-13 12:06:10 |
Yesterday I’ve come across Monika Mundell’s 9 Things That Could Ruin Your Entrepreneur Spirit and I couldn’t resist commenting a little bit on the items. If you remember my older post There is something wrong with entrepreneur’s minds - entrepreneurs are able to postpone the accomplishment of their dreams, or even act against them for [...]...
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| Promote your small business with a press release |
| 2008-07-12 14:36:02 |
Being a Business">small business founder I know that sometimes you are so busy with doing the actual work that needs to put cash in your bank that you don’t even get to think at some business processes that are not really so hard.
Let me ask you this way. When was the last time that your [...]...
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| Entrepreneurship is like a boomerang: you can’t get rid of it |
| 2008-07-12 12:53:46 |
We have a joke here. “Why Australians never change their boomerang? Because they can’t throw of the old one as it gets back to them”. God knows why we have this joke as we are on the other side of the Earth from Australia.
If you are an entrepreneur and have a business you can always [...]...
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| Dr. Letitia Wright interviewed on Entrepreneur-interviews.com |
| 2008-07-12 12:01:31 |
Dr. Letitia Wright have been awarded the Business Press Top 100 Women owned Business awards in 1996. Been nominated for a Stevie™ Award in 2004 and was the National Association of Female Executives Entrepreneur of the year. Been nominated for the Reginald Lewis Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Inland Empire African American Chamber [...]...
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| Start a business with your family? |
| 2008-06-28 09:47:41 |
One of the questions you should answer before starting a business without outside investment is where to find workforce willing to work at least for a period without having huge financial demands. You simply don’t have the money to pay for employees in the beginning, so you will have to look elsewhere.
Most likely you will [...]...
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| Trouble finding innovative business ideas? |
| 2008-06-28 01:34:00 |
Most often people are afraid starting a new business because they can’t find that unique idea that would make their business great. They think that if they don’t come up with an innovative idea, they are unable to make money and their business will fail.
I remember having these thought myself 3 years ago when I [...]...
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| Part time entrepreneurship |
| 2008-06-27 00:15:49 |
Being a part time entrepreneur for the past 3 and something years and a a blogger as well, gave me plenty of opportunities to see the goods and the bads and also summarize the experience in several posts along the way.
If you are looking to find out the advantages and disadvantages of moonlight entrepreneurship, there [...]...
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| Microbusinesses in Philippines |
| 2008-06-26 13:19:45 |
I’ve got an article from INQUIRER.net “Filipino micro-business owners face a myriad of problems, foremost of these is the inability to take their businesses beyond the day-to-day peso-and-centavo earning grind.”
“A typical micro-businessman in the Philippine setting is the owner of a sari-sari store in an urban poor community. He (or she) is mostly contented to [...]...
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| StartUpArabia - a blog dedicated to new Arab technology startups |
| 2008-06-23 16:06:56 |
As you know I have a thing about finding out how is Entrepreneurship in parts of the World that doesn’t seem to have a “natural” inclination towards starting a business, I was very happy to find “StartUpArabia is a blog dedicated to new Arab technology startups and services, profiling and reviewing them, providing interesting market [...]...
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| Alternative financing services? |
| 2008-06-22 12:38:19 |
With lots of reports on small businesses being affected by the rising fuel prices I’m sure that it’s also harder to get financing for a small business. Here in Eastern Europe where I live, the financing market is far from being mature, so I’ve decided to look for ways you could get financing for a [...]...
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| Review sta.rtup.biz - the small business social network |
| 2008-06-10 13:32:42 |
Got an invitation last week to join sta.rtup.biz - the Business">small business social network. You know I have a category dedicated to small business knowledge resources, so I’ve decided to make a review for it.
First thing, I tried to see what it does and got the answer from the opening press release: “Instead of going [...]...
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| USA Market Segmentation |
| 2008-06-06 00:26:08 |
I know for sure that Small Business Owners don’t think a lot about market segmentation and how they should target the right customer with their services and offers. But, I would say that you need to Discover Your Target Market. Finding out more about market segmentation is mandatory, in at least 2 moments in a [...]...
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| What kind of employees for your small business? |
| 2008-05-29 14:47:01 |
I have something that really bothers me lately. What kind of employees do you really want in your Business">small business?
Usually if we are talking about a bigger business, it’s better to have more types, even if you consider them individually they are not the very optimum. I mean yeah, you want the best sales people, [...]...
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| Reasons to start a business |
| 2008-05-25 02:21:27 |
Writing the Small Business Entrepreneur blog involves a lot of reading. And since I do so much reading, I can tell you that I’m amazed to see how different the reasons to start a business are. Sure, we can have Necessity or opportunity entrepreneurship, but besides that, it depends on the way of thinking, time, [...]...
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| What’s the best age to be an entrepreneur? |
| 2008-05-13 15:28:13 |
I don’t think you remember, but a while ago I wrote an article about Entrepreneurship age - when is better to start a business.
Well, I’ve turned 30 since I wrote that article, and getting older made me smart enough to write a guest post on Ben Means Business about What Is the Best Age to [...]...
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| Interview with Web 2.0 entrepreneur Wei Yang |
| 2008-05-09 15:12:18 |
Wei Yang accepted to make an interview about EasyAutoSales, Georgia’s fastest growing web 2.0 automotive startup that he thinks it will change the way cars are offered on the web. He Co-founded EasyAutoSales.com, together with some local entrepreneurs and started with no outside investments. The site launched its beta in March and garnered a million [...]...
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| Some more thoughts on Romanian Workforce |
| 2008-04-29 14:47:24 |
If I remember well, this is not the first time I write about the workforce in Romania. In fact, yes, here is my previous post about Worforce in Romania. The reason I’m writing again now is a Manpower survey that really shows how the situation is over here.
On one hand we have several big companies [...]...
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| Ben Means Business comments on my Delegate in a small business article |
| 2008-04-20 02:28:06 |
I’ve got a comment on my Delegate in a small business from Ben saying: “I am skeptical about delegating to family. From my experiences that usually doesn’t turn out well. I expressed my thoughts on hiring family in a post a while back. I was called Ten Commandments to Surefire Home Business Success. Check out [...]...
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| Delegate in a small business (part 2) |
| 2008-04-19 15:42:32 |
OK, I’m back. So I’ve started talking about delegation as a management process, now I will get down to delegate in a small business.
First of all if you want to delegate the right way based on the receiver abilities, it’s quite hard to have a person with the right set of skills for each task [...]...
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| Delegate in a small business (part 1) |
| 2008-04-18 14:32:05 |
Learning how to delegate tasks it’s not really something specific in a small business. If you are a boss somewhere and have some colleagues to help you over, it means that you have to know how to delegate. However, in a way, delegating is more complicated in a small business.
Let’s start by thinking about the [...]...
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| Entrepreneurship stereotypes |
| 2008-04-17 15:36:17 |
Or “Why all the mummies in the movies have problems walking?”
I write an entrepreneurship blog for more than 3 years now. Writing the Small Business Entrepreneur blog also involves a lot of reading - I call it becoming more educate. Anyway the bottom line is that there are a lot of stereotypes when talking about [...]...
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| Senior entrepreneurship |
| 2008-04-16 15:28:59 |
If you read my How does it feels to be 20 years late on entrepreneurship? article earlier, now I’m taking things to the max by saying something about senior entrepreneurship. Here in Eastern Europe, I believe that 99.99% of the people don’t even imagine that they could start a business at the retirement age, mostly [...]...
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| Growing your customers as you grow your business |
| 2008-04-11 12:31:55 |
I think most business die in one of these 2 circumstances:
getting too much business (or more than the business growth can absorb)
getting too little business for the current business level (or not covering the costs)
getting unappropriated business
While case 2 is probably the most known factor in building an entrepreneurship fear, the first one is also [...]...
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| Entrepreneurship changes reality |
| 2008-03-30 14:44:48 |
I’ve been travelling lately to countries that are supposed to be the engine and driving forces of the Worldwide economy - USA and Germany. And although most of the entrepreneurship stories, knowledge and money come from well developed countries, I would say that entrepreneurship is really dimmed over there. While in US, I couldn’t see [...]...
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| Doing business |
| 2008-03-30 14:22:20 |
I was getting myself ready to write about Entrepreneurship in Brazil and dedicate it to Cris Zimermann from Virtual entrepreneur when I found this article: Brazilians are among most entrepreneurial . It says that “The total entrepreneurial activity index (TEA) in the country grew from the 11.6% registered in 2006 to 12.72% in 2007, the [...]...
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| Self publishing a book can be easy |
| 2008-03-29 03:54:14 |
As the Small Business Entrepreneur blog is already 3 years old, I sometimes flirt with the idea that putting everything in a regular book would be the next stage in providing essential information to entrepreneurs wannabe and a great support for anyone looking to run a small business. I always thought that publishing a book [...]...
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| More on Philippines entrepreneurship |
| 2008-03-24 16:53:39 |
After writing a while ago about SME Insight Magazine from Philippine and later about 7 steps to start a business - advices from the Philippines - I’ve became interested in finding out more on entrepreneurship in “far away places” - well if you live in Europe, Philippines is exactly on the other side of the [...]...
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| 2008 Small Business Survey Results |
| 2008-03-23 14:39:51 |
An interesting article by Janet Attard on a survey conducted on 400 BusinessKnowHow.com website visitors, that can give you an insight over the small business and entrepreneurship in USA.
“When asked to comment on their most pressing business concerns this year, business owners brought up a wide range of economic concerns. Among the more [...]...
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| Make your employees happy - it’s an entrepreneur task |
| 2008-03-23 14:28:04 |
Being a small business it’s always hard to hire the right persons to do the job and even harder to keep them committed. Hiring in a small business is difficult from more than one reason:
your payments can’t be so great - employees are a cost, and costs are important for a small business
your package of [...]...
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| Hiring new employees versus profitability |
| 2008-03-22 04:33:13 |
Here I’m talking about a boostraped company, starting small with the owners work, looking to expand. And the question is can you keep the productivity up by hiring new people?
This is the part where you, the reader should identify yourself with the article: you started small, probably working from home, got some nice customers, income [...]...
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| Marketing shouldn’t be that expensive |
| 2008-03-20 16:18:18 |
Most small business owners have a hard time spending on marketing - I can see why, it’s very easy to think that with a limited budget, you can’t do much when you see how the big spenders play -. I’m not going to play smart and say this is not true, because I’m guilty as [...]...
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| What’s next on Small Business Entrepreneur blog? |
| 2008-03-20 14:25:48 |
One of my colleagues said today that I hardly write on the blog lately - which actually might be true. And moreover, I’ve read a while ago that in order to have a successful blog, you have to build anticipation, so the readers can expect you are going to provide interesting stuff to them in [...]...
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| Start your business now and in one year you could… |
| 2008-03-20 01:57:40 |
well, work as a PR agency for your country’s Dakar racing team. Shake hands with the Transportation minister. Promote the image of racing drivers. And even better, it can be done without any outside investment.
How does this sound to you? (I bet you have 2 options: not believing it’s possible or feeling the achievements above [...]...
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| 5 things I’ve learned about me while being an entrepreneur |
| 2008-03-17 15:46:21 |
If anything, I would describe my 3 years of entrepreneurship as a self educating experience that led to getting a good professional experience and an excellent thinking model. Of course, we had a lot of business accomplishment and stuff, but if regarded at a larger scale, I would remember this period as a time of [...]...
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| Entrepreneurship and small businesses the small driving forces of the economy? |
| 2008-03-15 03:29:06 |
Writing an entrepreneurship blog really puts me in contact with a lot of interesting entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship and educational organizations, and sometimes I’m also pitched to write something for them. Either a guest post, or a review on an entrepreneurship events or something like that.
From time to time, during these interactions the idea that small businesses [...]...
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