The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

So if you are thinking about starting, growing or running your small business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses , but are worried about if you can be successful, worried about failing, worried about giving up your job, etc. than bootstrapping is for you.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 16, 2012

But once I set up a great email signature, guess what happened? In your email settings, find the section where you can add an email signature and set one up. Sure, you have a few clients under your belt, but are you showing prospective clients that work up front? I ignored it myself, initially. Your Portfolio. Wait a minute!

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

’ Branding used to be just associated with a company logo or a business card, but that was 20 years ago. Branding is how businesses live and breathe. Kathy Garcia of The Job Training Center speaks about this year’s theme which is ‘A brand new experience.’

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Business Cards Are Nice Too Now, what do you do if you have some human powered work force, some OCR software to do the dirty job for you and a lot of audience (Shoeboxed is pretty popular, you know)? So, the next logical step was to give you a complimentary service, in the form of a business card transcribing service.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

So how do you translate the power of public speaking into value for your freelancing business without going whole hog and becoming a professional speaker? Grab the phone or jump online and look up the local Rotary Club, business networking organization, SBA outpost, Boys and Girls’ Clubs, the YMCA and YWCA, community college.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

When Justin Lambert sent me this follow-up post (you did read his first post , didn’t you?) In a previous post, I wrote about how public speaking can boost your freelance business to the next leve l – almost instantly. One portion of that list is made up of hot prospects that faded lukewarm for reasons unknown.

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JULY 15, 2010

The saleswoman found a selection Jane loved and worked up an estimate. “As I was getting out my business card, I asked Jane if there was ‘anything else’ concerning her about purchasing the carpet.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

Even if he never made one sale through his website, he still needed to have one up there. Almost every large company dealing with millions has a website these days, and these companies have it as an established fact in their minds that having a website is part of business. It’s the way professionals operate. More success.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Your ideas, stories or lifestyle have made their trip up to one of the farthest places in this world: the heart of a lonely, frustrated and inhibited person. The smallest building block of this circle is your business card (if we’re talking about business relationships). I gave up business cards a while ago.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’m on a bunch of lists I never signed up for. I get snail mail from credit card companies who could not possibly have my new mailing address unless they scammed it off some list. I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I have a crazy-busy RSS feed. Don’t just sign people up for your stuff.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Upon waking up, he can’t remember what he wrote and promptly enlists George, Elaine, and Kramer to decipher his text. Jordan Cooper ( @NotAProBlog ) January 15, 2010 at 1:17 am As a stand-up comic, I could attest to this wholeheartedly. If I had one theme in my writing, I would like to think it’s writing to bring people up.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 25, 2010

Doesn’t have an office and most of the time doesn’t have business cards either (the new dial tone being twitter , of course). I did a lot of trial and error but in the end I come up with quite a nice setup. Our work is less and less tied up to a physical location. Keep up the awesome blog my friend. And why?&#.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Just come up with 3 or 4 niches that you actually give a damn about. One of the best benefits of spreading into other niches is how you’ll come up with out-of-the-box ideas on how to one-up the value you offer to your existing customers in your main niche. Like carrying a business card. & marketing.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We work tirelessly to put up good content that people can use to improve their income, and we don’t get paid a penny for it. We want you to learn, to better your business, to succeed. That’s our goal with each and every post we put up on this site. There’s a new free post that goes up every day.”

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