Use Tools that Best Fit the Job while Building You...

I was a Skilled tradesman for 30 years,  and during my time working as a wood and metal pattern maker for the foundry or cast-able products industry I found that you can build a pattern more than one way , For example If  a blueprint were to be place in front of  five different craftsman I know that the job would get done.  Five  patterns would be made and for the most part using the same tools.  However, the...

Apprenticeship, Internship or Hands-on Learning...

What exactly does it take to ‘teach’ someone? What does it take to ‘learn’ a strategy, process or tactic? While most people get knowledge and skills through their own experiences, there are times when you have to look to people for knowledge. This is where the concept of apprenticeship enters the picture. Let’s dig deeper and get a better understanding. Apprenticeship is a system of training an...

Is your Plate Too Full Building Your Business?...

I am Overwhelmed! I don’t have any Time! These comments are heard daily from Business Builders expressing frustration of “having Too Full a Plate”. Why this Phenomena? I believe this Rapidly changing, information glutted, internet environment has been partly at fault. With the Real Time Postings and Social media tools, one is constantly  informed about the Successes of everyone else and How quickly...

Crawl – Walk – Run and You CAN Build I...

We all understand the basic principle of CWR (Learning to Crawl before you can walk, and learning to walk before you can run). so why is it so hard for people that want to start a business to understand? After all, you don’t just wake up one morning and decide that you are going to open a supermarket. There are steps you need to follow to get the store open. These can include hiring someone to do some research to...

Can You Build a Business from Your Home?...

OK, OK , before everyone jumps up with a Loud Shout YES, let’s take a moment and find out why the question. I basically have been in a “Home Based Business” for the past 45 years, even though I have occasionally had away from home offices, I tried to stay away as much as possible.  Always had Great reliable Staff… Actually if you don’t, there is no reason to have ANY Staff. I asked the...

Customer Service, the Foundation of Successful Bus...

Customer Service, Oh My Gosh is it a lost art? My brief 67 year history has proved to me that Customer Service is the Cornerstone of any successful Business Building Foundation. Actually experiments have proved to my clients that increased Customer Service Expense has produced more Sales and Profit , than increased Advertising for “new Customers”. Those who grasp the Business mindset realize the power of the...

Your BALANCE SHEET, Life and Business...

Winding to the end of the First month of the New Year still finds me working on Plans for 2010. Looking at last year’s Balance Sheet has been helpful in projecting the desire Increase for 2010…. But how many of us spend time studying another important component of  Building Your Business, The Balance Sheet of Life. “Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your...

Fox News, Elderly Entrepreneurs Thrive...

Older Americans took more entrepreneurial risks in 2008 while their younger counterparts took fewer. In Photos: 6 Pieces of Advice From Successful 60+ Entrepreneurs New research shows that entrepreneurial behavior among older Americans (44-99) rose significantly in 2008. Younger adults in the 18-44 age range — traditionally the hotbed of US entrepreneurial activity — reduced their entrepreneurial activity in...

Building Your Web Business and The IRS...

The IRS (Internal revenue Service) is a subject most don’t want to think about, but on our Webinar this past Saturday, one of our active Members, Mark Hultgren, spilled the beans about his recent Audit and offered some very important information to everyone involved in the Home Based Business Activity and Internet marketing. It has amazed me, for the past 5 years meeting so many here on the Internet, how few people...