Archive for December, 2008
The real Santa Claus
“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so. Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?”
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” is the famous reply we all know by heart, and [...]
Send the right message
FedEx, the company trusted by millions of people to deliver their Christmas presents to loved ones, recently announced some belt-tightening initiatives. That’s the real tragedy of the economic downturn, that even great companies get affected negatively. You get most things right, avoid the icebergs and get the ship headed in the right direction, and out [...]
Shop @ lunch, get free shipping
Thanks to Facebook and Anita Campbell, I can tell you about a great offer that’s only going on today.
Check out FreeShippingDay.com for a list of LARGE list of online merchants offering free shipping today only! Many of your favorite retailers are on the list, including Dick’s, Dell, Johnston-Murphy (my favorite), Kohls, etc. etc.
Procrastinators – Go. [...]
Entrepreneurial Qualities Survey – Wrap-up and Moving Forward
This is follow-up post 3 of 3 to my original survey. In interested, here is the previous recap:
Survey follow-up 1 of 3 (Review of necessary and supporting qualities)
Survey follow-up 2 of 3 (The big list of comments)
Continuing my examination of the entrepreneurial survey results, in this post I’ll share changes to the list of entrepreneurial [...]
“The Idea” or “The Team”
Walking around our incubator last week, I stopped in to talk with a younger employee of one of our tenants. In the middle of our chat, he asked me if I had an opinion on the question of what contributes most to a start-up’s success: the product/service/idea or the team developing it and taking it [...]
Thank You Anita
It’s been that kind of week – lot’s of people to thank. That’s a good week in my book.
Yesterday (12/9/08) I was a guest expert on Anita Campbell’s Small Business Trends Radio program. The entire process, from working on the topic and questions with Anita, the scheduling and logistics with Staci, and the actual program [...]
Thank You Simon
Much like reading the local paper over your morning coffee, one of my first activities at work is to fire up my RSS reader and scan through my topics to see if anything of interest pops out. This morning I rather unexpectedly saw my name in a post title. Huh??!!??
Simon Stapleton is a IT professional [...]
Entrepreneurial Qualities Survey followup – the Big List of Comments
This is follow-up post 2 of 4 to my original survey. In interested, here is the previous recap:
Survey follow-up 1 of 4 (Review of necessary and supporting qualities)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a couple weeks since I first wrote on the entrepreneurial qualities survey, but time flies quickly this time of year. In that [...]
Next Week on Small Business Radio
As anyone who knows me will attest to, self-promotion is not one of my strong suits. So don’t look for this post to be much longer than a couple short sentences. I actually came close to forgetting to post it at all. However, I’m quite excited to have been invited to be a guest expert [...]
Are your customers part of your Business Plan?
Sounds like a crazy question, doesn’t it? Well, I’ve been following an online saga over the weekend that makes me think that some entrepreneurs aren’t aware, or don’t care, about this simple premise.
I Want Sandy is an online scheduling and reminder service. Get any kind of information about daily “stuff” (appointments, things to remember, lists, reminders, [...]
