Small Business Labs

JUNE 22, 2010

  A good idea for any business, Hartman uses the example of Skillet (see their Airstream mobile restaurant on the right), who got the idea for their popular "bacon jam" from a customer.   They listen to their customers.  Bacon jam sounds disgusting to me.  Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 30, 2010

Bartz: They want to see more local content – things within a five to 10 mile radius that people want to know what's going on, like coupons and restaurants. .  From the WSJ article: WSJ: What kinds of content do Yahoo users want to see more of? That is part of how we operate now online. Having trouble reading this image?

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Small Business Labs

MAY 28, 2010

  Restaurants and others use it to source local food; local farmers use it sell product.  The fees are quite reasonable - full service packages start at $695 per season. While on the topic of urban farming, I want to mention Local Dirt.    It is an eBay-like website where you can find, buy and sell local food. 

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The Marq

MAY 26, 2010

You can track your daily expenses, find hot deals on products, get currency exchange rates, calculate tip on your restaurant check, calculate your monthly payments on your new loan, figure out your retirement savings needs, track the performance of your stock portfolio, check the markets’ performance, and read the latest financial news.

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Success

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Read a self-help book every morning for 30 minutes. If you don’t know how, buy a book on starting a business and read it, or check the internet for tips. I want my financial future to be bright and to have no worries when I’m older and ready to retire. Refresh your network. Pull up those numbers and refresh your network!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Build your own network! I put together a 10 question survey that I had planned to accost passers by with outside the few foreign wine boutiques as well as restaurant owners. He is now retired but worked as a customs officer and also owned a restaurant that he was forced to sell after it ran at a loss for 2 years.

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Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Go Live As Often As You Can I remember how scared I was first time when Ian Peatey sent me direct message on Twitter asking me where the restaurant that I was having lunch was. At this restaurant? Come on, if that was your true wish, you wouldnt charge them for a copy of your book. Wait, will I actually meet this nickname?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 7, 2011

By the time I expensed medical, insurance, retirement etc, I barely broke even. However, losing those clients meant I gained a ton of free time – time I used to finally launch my website, complete some much needed on-ground research, and start networking with social media and public relations networks. And it’s paying off.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc). Would I like my boss, my team, my role, my compensation package?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Time to think about the retirement fund.&# “We get to retire? No one ever told me that…&# We both know there’s no retirement fund in what we do. Not authors who sell books in stores. Twilight, New Moon, and the Gauntlet of Book-to-Movie Adaptations. We’re bloggers. We did this to ourselves.

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