Haralee Weintraub is the founder and CEO Haralee.com Sleepwear, a sleepwear company for women suffering night sweats due to menopause, cancer treatments, humid climates or just a high internal thermostat. What got you started? In my former career I had been traveling 30-40 weeks a year. I left working as an executive for a Fortune ... ...
If you can’t easily make decisions, you shouldn’t be in business. Being an entrepreneur constantly requires you to make decisions and remain firm in them so that goals may be achieved as promised. Sometimes partners and employees may agree with you, heated debates and high emotions will arise forcing everyone to compromise. We know that ... ...
I had to shake my head. They were rolling out yet another process to make their company better. It would allow them to track quotes, track their hit rates, measure how fast quotes flowed through the system, and ensure that all information was received before a quote was started. On the surface that all sounds ... ...
Jonathan Simkin is the 23 years old CEO of Swoop That, a company that he started with some friends his senior year of college. They help students save money and time when buying textbooks, and created a unique process for buying books – students select their courses, and then our system returns all the required ... ...
David McKeegan and Carrie McKeegan are entrepreneurs running a business that specializes in tax preparation for Americans living abroad, Greenback Expat Tax Services. They are Americans who have been living abroad since 2002: first in Barcelona as international MBA students London in the world of marketing and finance at big banking institutions Rio De Janeiro ... ...
While technically you don’t need an MBA to become an entrepreneur and maintain a successful business, the skills you learn in graduate school can in fact help you accelerate your business to profound heights—especially for those who lack foundational knowledge in basic accounting, marketing and leadership. But while some know that enrolling in graduate school ... ...
It is not easy to say, but sometimes I’m my own worst enemy. I insert myself into every crevice of our business and insist on doing it myself. While I’m pretty competent, I am definitely not fast. Also, since I can’t do everything at once, I often become a barrier to my own success. Part ... ...
When we get buried in the day to day, we often forget what we’ve accomplished and learned. It can seem like we are standing still, especially when you haven’t achieved one or more of you major goals. This is one reason why it is so important to do periodic reviews. It’s also one of the magical things about heading into New Years, as this holiday tends to make us think back over our previous year and forward to the next. Looking back, 2009 has been a roller coaster * New government which has created a ton of strife. New regulations and laws looming that will change the face of this country (I’ll leave it to you to decide if it’s for better or for worse!) * The economy degraded even further, and any recov...
The other day my wife and I were going through our business expenses. While this is a regular activity, this time we were challenging assumptions and looking for creative ways to cut costs while maintaining (or improving) our level of service. One area that came up was our monthly payments to Aweber. When we first started out it seemed like an easy way to get started. One month for free. Only $20 per month until you really got things going. And compared to the other options we looked at it was a bargain. Heck, theautoresponders we looked at ranged from $497 to $1500. Ouch! We looked to the “gurus” for advice, and the consistent answer we saw was “go with Aweber.” Let’s see…it’s cheaper, it’s e...
Yesterday I reviewed Dan Boudreau’s book RiskBuster: Start or Grow Any Small Business, Wherever You Are With Whatever You Have, Right Now! Overall I was impressed with how Dan managed to go in depth while making the book easy to read. I was also impressed with the tools and forms that accompanied the book. If ... ...
