The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is showing up every day. Or maybe it’s the juggling of priorities, marketing even when you are busy, or staying focused on the projects that bring in the money. It certainly isn’t easy! Here are some of the best Read More

As a small business owner you have to get the word out about your business or you won’t be in business for long. However, there are right ways and wrong ways to market and leverage social media. Here are some of the best posts of the Read More

Here are the best posts on how to have a compelling brand. Are you consistent in the way you present yourself, your services, and your company? How do you want to be known? How do you want your story told? Does your “look and feel” reflect that? You Read More

Having just passed my one year anniversary as community manager, it seemed fitting to do a week of “best of” posts. Looking back, I saw some outstanding content around specific themes. Today we start off with something that is critical for small business owners, especially service Read More

I was at a networking event when some guy walked up to me, slid his business card into my hand and proceeded to tell me, unsolicited, all about his business.  When he finally paused to take a breath, I waited for him to ask about me.  Read More

If starting a business were easy, everyone would do it. Starting a business takes an incredible amount of personal motivation, strength of character, and perhaps most of all – the ability to power through under pressure. It’s that latter point that tends to cause a great Read More

I can’t believe it. It has been one year since I started working with Carol Roth and managing Business Unplugged™. What a difference a year makes! I wanted to take this opportunity to share my thoughts (i.e., rant) on why collaboration is a great business practice, Read More

The biggest fear that most entrepreneurs have about using online video to market their business is not about technology or how to create the video.  If you’re like most small business owners, the biggest fear that you face is that you’ll make an ass of yourself Read More

As I write this, two events – each remarkable in strikingly different ways – have hit the news. First, Knight Capital Group (NYSE: KCG) more or less put itself out of business as an independent entity by running up a $400M loss in less than 30 Read More

Every author dreams of creating a bestseller, as does every business. And while 50 Shades of Grey may have worked out well in the fiction category this year, when it comes to business, a grey message will get you on nobody’s reading list. What’s a grey Read More