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Pinterest for Small Business Retailers: Marketing Hot or Not?

By Ray Sidney-Smith On May 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

If you are savvy about social networking, you know that Pinterest is all the rage lately. But, do we really know what Pinterest is? According to its website, the social media site is a “Virtual Pinboard” that ”lets you organize [...]

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Smart Entrepreneurship: Small Business Financial Management

By Bill Reagan On May 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Guest Post by Barbara Greenwald of Sheinwald Financial Strategies.

 

I define “Smart Entrepreneurship,” as the willingness to plan ahead, adjust your plan as you go along, know your own limitations and when to consult others, only take risks that you understand and can afford to take, deliver your product or service with [...]

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Google to Great Webinars: Google Sites

By Bill Reagan On April 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Using Google to Be Found, Part 1 – Google Sites from Ray Sidney-Smith on Vimeo.

In our first Webinar, we present Google Sites, the Internet giant’s tool to help your Small Business quickly and easy draft, edit and publish a Web site in minutes!

Google describes its product [...]

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Protecting Yourself as You Do Good for Others

By paulapotoczakesq On April 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

You are a member of a non-profit board of directors.  The organization works with at risk youth.  An employee engages in conduct that brings the non-profit negative publicity and the inevitable lawsuits.  Or, the organization fires an employee and the former employee files a employment discrimination complaint.   In both cases, the complaints name individual members [...]

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Casart Coverings Finds Inspiration From Maya Romanoff Wallcoverings. Where does your Small Business find inspiration?

By casartcoverings On April 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

After attending a wonderful lecture by Joyce Romanoff, President of Maya Romanoff handmade wallcoverings in March, I am now even more appreciative of their exceptional wallcovering now that I am more familiar with their process and their work ethics. I’ve been admiring this company’s products since I first saw their three dimensional Beadazzled™ [...]

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Make Every Day Earth Day

By jharley On April 17, 2012 · 1 Comment

“Reduce, reuse, recycle.” Has this become the mantra of the first two decades of the 21st century? To a dedicated few perhaps, but so far most behavior change has focused on recycling , rather than reducing or reusing the products we use in everyday life. To see if I am making a [...]

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Effective Business Writing: The Seven Keys for Small Business Owners

By elizadolin On April 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Seven Keys to Effective Business Writing from Ray Sidney-Smith on Vimeo.

Eliza Dolin, of Ivy Quill Communications, presents a summary of her recent workshop at Alexandria Small Business Development Center on “The Seven Keys to Effective Business Writing.”

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Today in Small Business History: Architecture Loses a Genius. We Learn How Not to Run a Small Business

By Ray Sidney-Smith On April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Frank Lloyd Wright died today, April 9, 1959. He worked for the acclaimed Adler & Sullivan architectural firm throughout the latter decades of the 19th century, under the mentoring of the great architect Louis Sullivan. In 1893, after [...]

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Hiring the Right Professional

By Jason Fuchs On April 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

 

Delegation is a skill that when done properly, saves you time, creates a circle of support, and enables you to achieve much more than you could on your own.

Hiring the wrong person wastes huge amounts of money invested in people not capable of delivering what you need them [...]

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Attendees of Small Business Hiring Workshop at the Alexandria Virginia SBDC

Workshop Recap: From One to Many — Smart, Effective Hiring – Patricia Frame of Strategies for Human Resources

By Bill Reagan On April 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Alexandria SBDC hosted their monthly Brown Bag Workshop yesterday and it was a packed house! Patricia (Patra) Frame of Strategies for Human Resources provided a higher-level prospective with some well-conceived, practical lessons for hiring practices for Small Business entrepreneurs new and growing. If you haven’t yet, you [...]

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