Category: Personal information & knowledge management

September 21, 2021

If you’ve ever wanted to start and run your own package delivery business, the Amazon Delivery Service Partner may be your answer. Entrepreneurs have been launching the businesses as an Amazon Delivery Service Partner since 2018. Many a success story […]

September 8, 2021

If you run a craft business, the holiday season can be huge for sales. There are plenty of Christmas crafts to make that can help you drive sales and secure profits during this time of year. Here are some items […]

September 7, 2021

One of our local restaurants has closed because the owners retired and decided to take an extended vacation in Europe. I’m happy for them, but our community is mourning the loss of a favorite watering hole and meeting place. I […]

September 1, 2021

After about three years of designing creative campaigns for brands, Evan Horowitz, the co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based branding agency Movers+Shakers, says it wasn’t clear he and his business-partner-slash-husband Geoffrey Goldberg could continue. “It wasn’t paying the bills and […]

August 18, 2021

We see countless crowdfunding campaigns becoming successful every day but not all of them become insanely successful. It’s only a few out of the entire lot that are able to cross their goal by over 10 to 20 times. These […]

August 16, 2021

When Amazon couldn’t deliver what I ordered in two days, I knew there were supply chain problems in the COVID pandemic. Now, this breaking of the supply chain has been a huge issue for small business owners and threaten their […]

August 10, 2021

How many analogies does it take to explain how to use marketing to become the obvious choice for your ideal customers? As many as it takes. And, I can’t resist any of them. That’s why I couldn’t wait to get […]

July 29, 2021

Creating a farm business plan is a way for you to formalize your thoughts, ideas and goals. As such, the process can be a real eye-opener. Although a farm business plan is a formal document, it’s ongoing. Don’t get bogged […]

July 26, 2021

One of my favorite expression is “there is no truth outside yourself”. We need to realize that everything we see in the world is viewed through our own point of view. What is the implications of that positively and negatively […]

July 19, 2021

Cate Luzio had no intention of starting her own business. She didn’t perceive of herself as an entrepreneur; she didn’t have a solid plan when she left her 20-year career in corporate banking. But when interviewing for jobs in February […]

July 14, 2021

Early on in our careers, we are schooled in the importance of the elevator pitch, so that we can deliver a concise answer if somebody important we meet in passing asks, “What are you working on?” or “What do you […]

July 12, 2021

You probably hate sales. You think it’s “low” or “beneath you”. Deep down you may believe if you have the best product or service in the marketplace, it will “sell itself”. More likely, you don’t like sales because you have […]

July 7, 2021

Deborah Dana is an entrepreneur, mom, and investor. 10 years ago he founded Kiwilimón with Lorenza Ávila, a portal for cooking recipes. In 2009, after the birth of his fourth child, he decided not to return to the day-to-day operation […]

June 29, 2021

There are several types of fishing farming businesses. You can grow fish to be eaten as, to be stocked for anglers, or to supply aquariums. Fish farming doesn’t always require a large body of water. For many species, fish farms […]

June 15, 2021

Amazon just announced that it’s launching a $150 million Black Business Accelerator program for third-party sellers on the site. Almost all third-party sellers on Amazon are small to medium-sized businesses. Third-party sellers represent nearly 60% of product sales on Amazon, […]

June 14, 2021

The dream of most small business owners is to exit their business rich. Many of them have over 80% of their personal wealth tied up in their company’s value, but statistics show only about 30% will end up selling their […]

June 2, 2021

Bad managers persist despite countless business books warning against the pitfalls of power. But no management text paints a more vivid picture of the problem than E.M. Delafield does in the monster of self-regard at the center of The War-Workers. […]

May 26, 2021

What makes a business stand out? In some cases, it’s a new design for their products. Other times, it’s additional services to bring in a different target customer. Winding Wick Candles does both. The candle company offers products crafted to […]

May 25, 2021

When you think of Black barbershops, you think of a mom-and-pop hole in the wall. You don’t always think of businesses that can scale, so I bought this building I absolutely loved, and started designing an upscale barbershop right in […]

May 5, 2021

An immigrant from Colombia, Juan Palacio arrived in Miami at the age of 25 with a heavy accent and limited knowledge of English. Undeterred, he began selling flowers to hotels door-to-door, eventually starting a couple companies, including his most recent, […]