Archive for the 'Business' Category

Make Your Small Business Go Green in 2011

As individuals most of us make resolutions around this time of the year in an effort to improve our lives. But what about companies? There are definite resolutions that business and companies can make to improve their business and how the company is run. One of those resolutions is to make your business greener in [...]

Using Greeting Cards to Market After the Holidays

The holidays are over, but there are still plenty of ways you can use greeting cards to market to your prospects.  Here are a few ideas. Most marketing-savvy business owners know that holiday greeting cards make a great way to market to clients and prospective customers, but did you know that the holidays aren’t the [...]

Putting Stuff in Storage

With the imminent move of our office to a new building, we have been spending time deciding what things we need to keep, and what we need to get rid of.  In some respects, this move will be a blessing and will finally force us to get rid of those things that we have kept [...]

Increasing Our Bottom Line

One of the biggest challenges that I have found running my own business is that you can get in a routine.  For most people that doesn’t necessarily sound bad, but it can be the death of your business.  While other businesses are innovating and testing, by staying the same, you will be left behind. So [...]

Getting Free Business Advice from Friends

Do you ever get free professional advice from your friends who are experts in a field other than your own? I think that there are times when this is appropriate. However I don’t think people should expect their friends to provide them with free services. For example, I have experience working as a blogger. People [...]