Operations
Love Your Business More Than Your Family
Centuries ago when I attended Harvard Business School, I took a course on entrepreneurship. The professor was a brilliant ...
Centuries ago when I attended Harvard Business School, I took a course on entrepreneurship. The professor was a brilliant ...
How to Find the Pricing Sweet Spot
While these may be challenging times to be a small-business owner, tough times can create opportunities for business owners who ...
While these may be challenging times to be a small-business owner, tough times can create opportunities for business owners who ...
Create a Lasting Legacy
Most entrepreneurs could probably use a good therapist. But for Jeff Lewis , it was therapy that led him to a career as a ...
Most entrepreneurs could probably use a good therapist. But for Jeff Lewis , it was therapy that led him to a career as a ...
Freelancing? Think Like a Business Owner
So you've had enough of your rotten boss or the hideous job market and decided to give freelancing a whirl. ...
So you've had enough of your rotten boss or the hideous job market and decided to give freelancing a whirl. ...
All Operations Articles
Entrepreneur.com - In order to compete in this new economy, chances are you've already pared down your operations. You've also probably adopted "flat revenue" as the new measure of ...
• So What's Next?
Entrepreneur.com - If you're in business for any length of time, you will experience three very distinct environments in which the most valuable question you can ask yourself is "what's ...
• Put Profits First--Always
Entrepreneur.com - If you're reading this, you're probably already running your own small or midsized business. Maybe you're doing OK, but your competitors are doing better and ...
• Is Offshoring Really the Best Option?
Entrepreneur.com - The term offshoring is now commonplace in American business. It's unclear how many jobs have moved abroad, but Bureau of Economic Analysis figures cited by USA Today estimate ...
• Move From Tenant to Owner
Entrepreneur.com - You've probably seen the headlines touting the demise of commercial real estate--it's the next bubble due to burst. One of the trends highlighted in this news coverage is ...
• Importing Goods? Adhere to the Rules
Entrepreneur.com - The U.S. government provides reduced or duty-free privileges on thousands of goods made in developing nations around the world. Likewise, the U.S. has entered more than a dozen ...
• Learn From Your Mistakes
Entrepreneur.com - If we want business success, we have to look clearly at our mistakes--and stop repeating them. We need to work with our team, not against them, to do this. Too often business ...
• 6 Ways to Save Your Shirt
Entrepreneur.com - Contracts do not have to be written. If you, on behalf of your company, make a verbal agreement and claim that the verbal agreement can't be enforced, it's possible you, ...
• 6 Steps to Better Business Solutions
Entrepreneur.com - Physician, heal thyself is good advice if you run a small business. You already know how to fix the problems in your business, and you know how to grow from those problems. Last ...
• Selling Cost vs. Price
Entrepreneur.com - I recently finished a keynote presentation for an industry that's getting hit hard by competitive pricing. Customers want the best price they can get, especially in a ...
• Recession Delivers Timely Wake-up Calls
Entrepreneur.com - When Kent Lewis returned from a family vacation in late January, his first day back in the office was anything but business as usual. To his surprise Lewis was handed a sobering ...
• Mixed Signals: The State of Black Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur.com - When he started his company, Donald Coleman had nothing but his personal savings and a few faithful friends to fund it. Twenty years later, GlobalHue, Coleman's marketing ...
• Hold the Line on Price
Entrepreneur.com - Over the years at Axxess Business Consulting, we've worked with many clients to help them analyze their pricing models and figure out how to maximize their profits ...
• Grow Without Growing Pains
Entrepreneur.com - Many home based entrepreneurs struggle against the perception that their business is small, maybe too small to effectively serve the majority of consumers. They know image ...
• The Evolution of Protectionism
Entrepreneur.com - If your business is involved in the global marketplace, there's rarely been a time so fraught with potential disaster as right now. A confluence of factors has combined to ...
• Innovate Every Day
Entrepreneur.com - In the sink-or-swim environment of startups, daily innovation can weigh heavily on your mind. Here are three ways to think creatively--well past your startup stage. Ask better ...
• Stay Strong When Business Gets Rough
Entrepreneur.com - Your ability to handle rejection and obstacles while selling in hard times really depends on your capacity to focus on the essential activities that help you stay in control. Here ...
• The New Economic Indicators
Entrepreneur.com - Want to know When the economy will improve? You can rely on the usual economic forecasts or look to other more offbeat indicators, such as sales figures at key retailers or new ...
• Frugal is Back
Entrepreneur.com - Since 1993, Kansas City, Missouri-based Boulevard Brewing Co. has bartered with local coffee company The Roasterie, which receives beer for events in exchange for wholesale rates ...
• Find Your Perfect (Business) Match
Entrepreneur.com - Ah, Valentine's Day, when thoughts turn to finding that proverbial knight in shining armor or the princess whose foot perfectly fits the glass slipper. It's no different ...