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If you have been around the sales and business owner block for a while, you understand the mental strength necessary to cope with rejection. Sometimes becoming numb to the rejection can be both a blessing and a curse. How many times have you submitted a proposal,…View More
Social media can be one of the most effective ways to grow your small business and drive additional visibility for your brand and products. While the importance of Social Media Marketing is not lost on many merchants, they still consider it a foreign concept and do…View More
If you want to set yourself up for sales success, your best strategy lies in being fully prepared for the all-important sales call. It’s critical to think through every aspect of the call ahead of time. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can just wing it – you’ll…View More
There is no shortage of leadership books written by presidents, politicians, CEOs, psychologists, military heroes, and executive coaches. I am none of the above. My take on leadership comes primarily from my experiences as a high-altitude mountaineer and polar explorer.View More
OnDeck Capital is a company that makes loans to small businesses. Traditionally small businesses have gotten funding in a few straightforward ways. One is self-funding from the savings and bank accounts of owners and their friends and families. The second is with…View More
"The first three versions of the business plan were not viable, since expenditures exceeded revenue. This tends to be a very bad model for business. By the time I got to version four (which included a restaurant and a bar on the same premises as the miniature…View More
The classic secret to small business success is hard work and lots of it. It's just like the secret of success in gymnastics. How does a gymnast get to the Olympics? The answer is exactly the same as the punchline to the old joke about how you get to Carnegie…View More
The final installment in a 4-part series about businesses that met the AmEx OPEN Scalerator challenge to grow their revenues 15 percent in three months. Do you really know who your customer is? By reevaluating the target of her sales pitch, Annette Tipton has put her…View More
Every successful business starts with a vision. Every unsuccessful business does too. How can you tell whether your dream is destined to succeed? And once your new business is operating, how can you keep that dream on track? We asked three successful entrepreneurs how…View More
By the time Noam and Irene Krasniansky’s Shark Tank pitch aired on ABC on Friday, their reusable paper-towel product, Bambooee, was already available in northern California Costco stores, several Whole Foods stores, and thousands of natural food shops nationwide. It…View More
We are very excited to announce that next week we are starting our Yahoo Small Business Advisor Incubator program. This is a 3-month long program of content, advice and support for anyone actively starting out with their own small business. It can actually be started…View More
Profits have dropped, productivity has slowed, and your business has felt like it’s been on a roller coaster for years. Before you blame the economy, you might want to take a look in the mirror. Those conditions could be clues that your organization is lacking strong…View More
For many of us, feeling a sense of belonging in the places we work, homes, and with the people we love and care about is satisfying. We work hard to make sure that what we do counts, and that we are able to support ourselves. But more to our need to survive and make…View More
This companion article to our introduction to finding your startup goals, ideas and values is a practical exploration of these issues and can be used as a worksheet to help you find the answers to these questions for yourself as you go about starting up your own…View More
The decision to start a business is only the first step of a valid business planView More
When you start your entrepreneurial journey, you will inevitably have visions of what your success will look and feel like. Perhaps you picture yourself on a boat, drinking champagne? Or maybe you see yourself winning a Nobel Prize for making major change in the…View More
This is a guest post by Shane Snow, chief content officer at Contently, a New York company that connects freelance journalists with corporate assignments. The article first appeared on the Content Strategist blog. In 2012, a pale woman with crazy eyebrows and a keytar…View More
Leaders in Milwaukee began an initiative last year to spur economic growth by helping businesses in the region learn how to scale up. The payoffs are already coming and other metro regions ripe for revival are taking note. Yahoo Small Business reported here last year…View More
When most small businesses think about social media, they automatically think Twitter and Facebook. If your business caters directly to individuals I think it is hard to argue that you should not have a presence on both. For B2B businesses, however, there is a…View More
RangerUp has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring in veterans, train them, and help seed them as they launch their own small businesses.View More
Let’s get one thing clear before we begin. While I’ve lived and breathed the startup world since founding BodeTree in 2010, I’m not your typical startup founder. First of all, I don’t live in the Bay Area, or New York, or any other hub of excitement. I grew up in…View More
If you have been around the sales and business owner block for a while, you understand the mental strength necessary to cope with rejection. Sometimes becoming numb to the rejection can be both a blessing and a curse. How many times have you submitted a proposal,…View More
Social media can be one of the most effective ways to grow your small business and drive additional visibility for your brand and products. While the importance of Social Media Marketing is not lost on many merchants, they still consider it a foreign concept and do…View More
If you want to set yourself up for sales success, your best strategy lies in being fully prepared for the all-important sales call. It’s critical to think through every aspect of the call ahead of time. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can just wing it – you’ll…View More
There is no shortage of leadership books written by presidents, politicians, CEOs, psychologists, military heroes, and executive coaches. I am none of the above. My take on leadership comes primarily from my experiences as a high-altitude mountaineer and polar explorer.View More
OnDeck Capital is a company that makes loans to small businesses. Traditionally small businesses have gotten funding in a few straightforward ways. One is self-funding from the savings and bank accounts of owners and their friends and families. The second is with…View More
"The first three versions of the business plan were not viable, since expenditures exceeded revenue. This tends to be a very bad model for business. By the time I got to version four (which included a restaurant and a bar on the same premises as the miniature…View More
The classic secret to small business success is hard work and lots of it. It's just like the secret of success in gymnastics. How does a gymnast get to the Olympics? The answer is exactly the same as the punchline to the old joke about how you get to Carnegie…View More
The final installment in a 4-part series about businesses that met the AmEx OPEN Scalerator challenge to grow their revenues 15 percent in three months. Do you really know who your customer is? By reevaluating the target of her sales pitch, Annette Tipton has put her…View More
Every successful business starts with a vision. Every unsuccessful business does too. How can you tell whether your dream is destined to succeed? And once your new business is operating, how can you keep that dream on track? We asked three successful entrepreneurs how…View More
By the time Noam and Irene Krasniansky’s Shark Tank pitch aired on ABC on Friday, their reusable paper-towel product, Bambooee, was already available in northern California Costco stores, several Whole Foods stores, and thousands of natural food shops nationwide. It…View More
We are very excited to announce that next week we are starting our Yahoo Small Business Advisor Incubator program. This is a 3-month long program of content, advice and support for anyone actively starting out with their own small business. It can actually be started…View More
Profits have dropped, productivity has slowed, and your business has felt like it’s been on a roller coaster for years. Before you blame the economy, you might want to take a look in the mirror. Those conditions could be clues that your organization is lacking strong…View More
For many of us, feeling a sense of belonging in the places we work, homes, and with the people we love and care about is satisfying. We work hard to make sure that what we do counts, and that we are able to support ourselves. But more to our need to survive and make…View More
This companion article to our introduction to finding your startup goals, ideas and values is a practical exploration of these issues and can be used as a worksheet to help you find the answers to these questions for yourself as you go about starting up your own…View More
The decision to start a business is only the first step of a valid business planView More
When you start your entrepreneurial journey, you will inevitably have visions of what your success will look and feel like. Perhaps you picture yourself on a boat, drinking champagne? Or maybe you see yourself winning a Nobel Prize for making major change in the…View More
This is a guest post by Shane Snow, chief content officer at Contently, a New York company that connects freelance journalists with corporate assignments. The article first appeared on the Content Strategist blog. In 2012, a pale woman with crazy eyebrows and a keytar…View More
Leaders in Milwaukee began an initiative last year to spur economic growth by helping businesses in the region learn how to scale up. The payoffs are already coming and other metro regions ripe for revival are taking note. Yahoo Small Business reported here last year…View More
When most small businesses think about social media, they automatically think Twitter and Facebook. If your business caters directly to individuals I think it is hard to argue that you should not have a presence on both. For B2B businesses, however, there is a…View More
RangerUp has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring in veterans, train them, and help seed them as they launch their own small businesses.View More
