Small Business CEO

In today’s microenterprise world where many times there is only one person actually in the business, delegation takes on a whole new meaning...

My thanks to a special guest blogger, Caroline Melberg of SmallBusinessMavericks.com . This is a content and practical advice packed post, t...

Boy I wish this service was available about 5 years ago. Sometimes you need a projector or other device in another city or for an event and ...

My daughters middle-school 6th grade recently held an innovation fair. Each student had 3 weeks to invent a product. They received guidance ...

I am involved in a new startup entrepreneurial club in Akron, Ohio, USA ( www.akroneclub.com ) and we are struggling a bit with what the def...

Funny how some prospects think they are doing me a favor by giving me the honor of being one of three required bids. I had a prospect lately...

The Marine's have been developing leaders for centuries and much has been written and chronicled about the process and the successes. Bu...

Are you a CEO and a Dad? Need a good laugh occasionally and a reality check, then you need to check out this great site CEO Dad . Here is a ...

I subscribe to a fairly large number of RSS feeds and have been using IE7 to subscribe and manage them and have grown frustrated with the ti...

I am working with a company that is wants to grow from $3M to $10M over the next 5 years, the company has been flat for several years and ha...

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This is a shout out for help. I am looking for information, (books, consultants, classes, etc.) on how to sell and market to various U.S.Gov...

Are you one of the only 1 in 4 small-business owners that has a sufficient succession and continuation plan in place. If you don't have ...

I heard a presentation at a tech vendor conference recently and the presenter used the terms Digital Native and Digital Immigrant. He used t...

I am attending the AIIM/OnDemand tradeshow in Boston this week. I haven't been to a monster tradeshow in a few years and have forgotten...

Over at my brother site Small Business Trends Radio we just put up our first quarter Top Ten Most Popular Podcasts . In March we served up ...

To all of you who take advantage of my openly available email to contact me I thank you! Please read the article linked to below on how to a...

Do you ever feel drowsy in the middle of the day? Need a power nap? Want to stay on the edge of enlightened employers! Meet the latest in na...

The leader of a small business decides that the time is right to grow and grow aggressively. The problem is the business has been flat for a...

I love finding new online tools that help me better find and review information. I have tried almost every RSS reader there is and have neve...

One thing an entreprenuer must do is constantly scan the environment looking for threats to our existing businesses and scoping out new oppo...

Wired Magazine has a great section in this months issue about our Snack Culture and its application to how we consume media. You know video...

Sometimes the chance to impress our customers is done via effective recovery from a problem. This week I had the opportunity to fly into the...

I once had the responsibility to be the Customer Service responder for all calls to the CEO of a pretty big company, my job was to try and r...

"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit--and must understand that practi...

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One of the things I really like to do on this blog is share unique discoveries that I think will help small business ceo's. They could ...

*This is a sponsored post* Twice in my career I have totally lost the hard drive in my computer and both times it was catastrophic to my bus...

I had an opportunity yesterday to attend a presentation by a company that had completed 2 mergers over the last 18 months and they were shar...

As a small business owner, we may believe that hackers have no use for our small network. Think again! Understanding what these hackers are ...

Today, buyer spotting is a key for those selling professional services, and we have no high tech devices to assist us. There is no radar, so...

One of the key things that must be identified for effective marketing and sales is your USP or Unique Selling Proposition. The USP is the th...

Polish your marketing smarts with this handy quiz. Just answer true or false to these eight questions, then read the answers for important i...

Advertising is not as easy as color by numbers. Your company's message, and how it is delivered, can be one of the biggest factors in de...