• One on One: T.A. McCann of Gist.com September 10, 2010
    Welcome to the One on One conversation series, where Small Business Trends is speaking to some of the best minds in business today. The goal of the series is to pick the brains of successful entrepreneurs, best-selling author, and executives with organizations serving the small business community, to provide the Small Business Trends community with their val […]
  • Great Job Security September 10, 2010
    I used to be an inside salesman. My job was to sell via phone and online, and to support several outside salespeople as well. One day, one of the outside guys was in the office, and he and I were discussing clients. “I dunno how you do it,” he said. “Being chained to a desk all day? I couldn’t do it.” We finished our chat, got a nice lunch on the company, an […]
  • Small Business News: The Real Deal September 10, 2010
    Sometimes small business news and advice is just too theoretical, too poetic, too colorful to help the average small business owner or entrepreneur. We get it. That’s why we assemble the Small Business Trends news roundup to give you the news and information you need to start or operate your small business more creatively, more efficiently, more positively t […]
  • Q3 Kauffman Economic Outlook: Uncertain September 9, 2010
    The Kauffman Economic Outlook: A Quarterly Survey of Leading Economics Bloggers for the third quarter of 2010 has recently been released. Compared to the responses in the second-quarter 2010 Outlook–which was not all that rosy--the viewpoint this time around has become far more pessimistic. Sixty-eight percent of economics bloggers who responded to the Q3 su […]
  • 9 Places to Get Involved and Build SMB Satellite Communities September 9, 2010
    As small business owners, we’re often told to get out there and engage–that we should use social media to “even the playing field” (an expression I hate) and “meet” our customers and potential customers at the watering holes where they hang out. But…where should we go? What types of social site are out there for a small business owner who wants to create a p […]

Part 3: Make Time To Plan Your Business For Success

The patience, perseverance and passion to deliberately take the steps to create a thorough business plan, to accurately allocate every action step, commit to self-educate and learn from failures, WILL ensure your success…. It’s just a matter of time. “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success.”~Brian [...]

The Most Vital Ingredient To Your Online Business Success

I wouldn’t let my son learn basketball from a coach that taught him to punch a kid in the face in order to get a rebound, or to only shoot three pointers when he can’t even make a layup and refuses to show him how. I say that knowing full well that there are a myriad of new entrepreneurs desiring success that are trying to obtain that success by taking some of the same kind of business [...]

Overcoming The Biggest Threat To Home Business Success

I want to deliver some home business owner straight talk about overcoming the most important challenge that can make or brake your business in the first 90 days. A myriad of business’s are doomed to failure when their owners are so desperate to follow someone else’s map to reach financial freedom that they sacrificed the very attributes that would have other wise made them [...]