A Simple Business Plan for Surviving the Downturn
I generally write about my clients’ concerns, but today’s post focuses on my family’s business, a 32 year-old facility management firm. My parent’s business has fared better than expected during the economic downturn. They’ve had a couple of clients request lower rates. They’ve had to ask clients to pay higher rates to cover increased fuel, [...]
People. Planet. Profit. A New Book Helps You Give Back and Earn More.
Everybody Else’s Guide to Green & Socially Responsible Careers is the latest book in the Everybody Else’s Guides series. It is the most comprehensive guide to career and business opportunities in the brave new world of green and sustainable business practices, social business enterprises, nonprofit MBAs and socially responsible corporations. The book features over 200 [...]
Seed Money: 5 Funding Sources for Your Startup
As I’ve said so many times already this year, this is the year of the phenomenal career, the year that we all commit to career empowerment and improvement. But this year isn’t just about getting the most out of your job; it’s about getting the most out of your new business. Commitment #2 of the [...]
Profit-Sharing: Social Enterprises Pay Dividends to Their Communities
A lot’s been said about social business enterprises and nonprofit organizations employing revenue-generating tactics similar to those of for-profits. Community service has become big business, with wealthy business types, celebrities, ambitious entrepreneurs and idealistic hippies coming together to finance and operate multi-million dollar social business enterprises, venture philanthropy funds and financial institutions. Even the for-profit [...]
Franchise Forward: Why Franchise Ownership May Be The Way To Go
We’ve not spent much time talking about franchises, but they are very viable business opportunities through which thousands of people have earned comfortable livings. And, more than a few millionaires have been minted via franchise ownership. The beauty of owning a franchise, versus other business opportunities, is that you start off, in most cases, with [...]
The Day After Tomorrow: Preparing for the Christmas Shopping Season
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, but retailers and other businesses care about only one thing…the day after tomorrow, the first day of the Christmas shopping season. For most businesses, especially retailers, Christmas business accounts for more than 80% of their annual revenue. This year’s shopping season is more important than ever. The entire economy [...]
EENY, MEENY, MINY, MO. Which Clients Should You Just Let Go?
I know our focus here is building–building new business ventures, building new or better careers. So, it seems odd to even ponder getting rid of those hard-won customers. I mean, you’ve given up nights at home with family and friends, lazy weekends and relationships to serve these customers. Should you…could you…actually get rid of any [...]
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