Posts Tagged ‘smallbiz’
Leadership Is Not Management (but you need both)
Ross | December 1st, 2009“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker Many confuse leadership and management. They are not the same. However, successful businesses must have strong leaders and strong managers (this is increasingly important as companies hire more people). Strong leadership without strong management can result in chaos and inefficiency. Strong management [...]
SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
Bethany | November 20th, 2009Harmonic Jazz Festival You’re going to want to break out your Jazz Hands when you hear about this exciting new festival coming to the UK! Harmonic is a new jazz festival will be taking place March 11th – 13th 2010 in Birmingham, UK. So if you’re in the area or want to make the trip [...]
Is Your Marketing Tail Wagging The Dog?
Ross | November 17th, 2009A few days ago, I listened to a radio interview of Andre Agassi – widely considered one of the greatest tennis players ever. When Agassi started playing professionally, he ran 5 miles every day to stay in peak condition. When Agassi hired a trainer, the trainer asked Agassi why Agassi ran 5 miles. Agassi’s response: [...]
Small Business Spotlight of the Week
Bethany | November 13th, 2009DeParis Redinger At just two people, DeParis Redinger is a boutique investment banking firm doing a lot more than just investment banking. Naturally, when I came across their posted project for a web design on crowdSPRING I was intrigued and had to do some research and find out what they were all about and it’s [...]
Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 1)
Tal | November 10th, 2009You have a great idea, a viable business model, and investors lined up. Now, you need to build your web site. Likely, you’ll start by hiring a consultant or consulting firm. Consultants can be valuable resources, and good relationships with them can be key to growing your company. The unfortunate flip-side is that bad advice [...]
10 Ways Small Businesses Can Harness Big Crowds
Ross | November 4th, 2009Would your small business benefit from reducing costs, improving product and/or service quality, more effectively competing with bigger companies, innovating more, enhancing your expertise, and better managing your own capacity and the capacity of your small team? You bet! In this post, I discuss 10 ways that your small business can leverage crowdsourcing. I’ll explain [...]
Small Business Spotlight of the Week
Bethany | October 30th, 2009Fete This week’s small business is a full service event production company. They provide meeting planning services for special events, corporate functions, galas, weddings (hint, hint Pete), corporate meetings and seminars. Not only can this company plan your next event, but they can cater it and offer your corporation concierge service as well. I know [...]
