How to Make a Business Plan for Your Life
What’s the meaning of life? is so rhetorical sometimes, so open to interpretation. It’s a question we ponder—a question that rarely has a concrete answer or solution attached. But what if you change that question to What’s the meaning of my life? Allison Rimm can help answer that question, and she can do it in […]
Top of Mind: The Value of Mentors for Business Success
In Google+ Hangouts, organized for 2013 National Small Business Week, experts “got together” to talk about the entrepreneurial landscape and topics important for small-business owners to know. In this webinar, leaders from small business centers and the U.S. Small Business Administration discussed mentors and shared their advice on finding that integral help that comes from […]
Capitalizing on a Trend
As owner and founder of The Lash Lounge, Anna Phillips is a trailblazer and an entrepreneur with passion—turning something she instinctively saw as a growing trend into a thriving business. Phillips used to work in IT, but it didn’t take long for her to realize that wasn’t what she wanted to do every day […]
Top of Mind: 7 Social Media Musts
As part of 2013 National Small Business Week, the U.S. Small Business Administration hosted Google+ Hangouts with various experts to discuss topics relevant to entrepreneurs and small business owners getting started. In this webinar, social media experts from Twitter, Constant Contact and Google+ shared their tips for social marketing success. 1. Ask Questions and Invite […]
JJ Ramberg’s 5 Tips for a Better Business
Tip #177: Calendar everything. “Put every single thing you need to do—large or small—into your digital calendar,” says entrepreneur and author JJ Ramberg in It's Your Business. She follows her own advice as the busy founder of the charitable search engine GoodSearch.com, and as weekly television host of MSNBC’s Your Business. As a journalist, she has interviewed […]
Small-Business Contests: Enter for Your Chance at Success
A small business is a big deal. And bigger businesses recognize that—that’s why you’ll find various contests that help the smaller companies, the up-and-comers, grow. Success is the first-place prize, and that’s worth a whole lot more than a blue ribbon or a three-tier trophy. (And there are some pretty sweet, and tangible, perks and […]
Why is Hugh Jackman Laughing?
Hugh Jackman is also a real-life superhero fighting real-world battles with the charity he founded, Laughing Man Worldwide.
Celebrate Small Business Week
They are touring the country, rolling through Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. all in one week. They’re going hard (and have been for 50 years now)—for you and your benefit. They are the U.S. Small Business Administration, and from June 17 to June 21, they’re hosting free educational events in cities from […]
Tech Wildcatters: Hear Them Roar
The Granada Theater, built in 1946 as a movie house that premiered classics like It’s a Wonderful Life, and now a concert hall, stands as a historic venue in Dallas. Last month, that brick building full of stories and entertainment innovation featured a new and different act—this time, the marquee’s red letters spelled out something […]
Social Protection Apps—Paranoid or Valid?
“Just because your photos are ‘private’ doesn’t mean they can’t go public.” Say what? “But I clicked ‘Friends’ under my privacy settings so no one else can view them,” you’re thinking. Think again. A new app from McAfee Security aims to lock down your photos by blurring them, requiring a plug-in to view them and […]
Set Goals and Spark Something Special in Your Relationship
Get real—with your spouse. According to Phillip C. McGraw, aka Dr. Phil, that “go w
Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How to Find Happiness
A culture that laughs is happy, and a happy culture is productive and healthy—as a goal, it towers over wealth (or anything material) in importance. Bring that knowledge and that elated emotion to your home, your office, your life. Not sure what happy or genuine joy really is or how to reach it? In Get […]
