Crowdfunding is the practice of soliciting very small amounts of money from a very large number of individual, non-accredited investors. Small business owners are getting rightfully curious about this new “Crowdfunding” concept, especially since it seems to be a way for small business owners to raise new money over the Internet from non-accredited investors....
Like all entrepreneurs, Caroline Worley and I constantly come up with new business ideas to develop and implement. That is one of the benefits and joys of being an entrepreneur, the opportunity to turn an idea into a reality. Saying that, six months ago while searching for event space to host our “Planning to...
I am sure you have heard the statement that the key to success in real estate is, “location, location, location.” In a small business the key to success boils down to one thing as well, and that is “planning.” While I understand that as the business owner you do not have to take the...
We are pleased to announce, Your Management Team, Inc. has formed a Strategic Alliance with Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI). If we have ever sat down together and brainstormed ideas to grow your business we would have talked about creating strategic alliances as a way to increase the visibility of your business. At...
I came up with this trick while trying to find a way to write without getting distracted. On a desktop or laptop, you usually use user accounts. Create an extra one and name it the task you need to focus on (mine is called “Write”, naturally). Go into the permissions and disallow any programs...
This week I attended a roundtable discussion with Congressman Pat Tiberi and a number of other small business owners. The topic was, “what are the major issues affecting us as small business owners.” Obviously funding was a big point of discussion during the roundtable. The challenge of securing adequate funding was shared by almost...
…what does that say about the cobbler? My mother is full of idioms and good old country phrases (we call them Phyllisisms) and, upon hearing the difficulties I will describe forthwith, she immediately respond, “Of course, the cobbler’s children have no shoes.” (I was much happier with this comparison than that of the little...