Q: My partner and I are having a hard time coming up with what we feel is the perfect price for our new product. We know what competing products sell for, but we don’t know if it’s better to price our product cheaper than theirs or charge more based on what we think is a superior product. What …
One of the first steps is to box up last years files. However, before you do that be sure to go through your files and clean them out. The files that can take up a lot of space during the year, can be easily tossed. For example, your correspondence file, newsletter files, chron files. You can als…
How do you as a manager, supervisor or team leader hire winners? One very successful interviewing technique is behavioral interviewing—selecting the right person for the right job using a job-related rather than a gut feel approach. A job-related approach is asking for a behavioral example of s…
Q: A friend told me that as a woman of Native American descent I might be eligible for a special SBA program that will help me start a small business. He said I could compete for government contracts through this program. Can you tell me what SBA program he’s referring to?
– Clara P.
A: Y…
Why is throwing a seminar good for business?
If you want to clean your house, you should throw a garage sale, and if you want to increase business, throw a seminar. A seminar is a way for you to contact many people all at once. It will pull in an audience that is interested in what you have…
It occurred to me the other day, that so many people today liken their businesses to the way they eat - fast. Think about it. All over the web we are inundated with… make $1000’s of dollars a day, make $10,000 a month, make a million by the end of the year. Everyone is looking for the magic fo…