Photo by fabio_pinheiro  This is a bit off the beaten path of a regular post, but it does illustrate the kinds of things you can learn as a business owner (and if you’re not learning something new all the time, you should be…).  Specifically I have learned how to infuse Pineapple (pictured above) into Vodka […]

photo by mandj98  There are a lot of techniques and approaches  you can use to market and sell your products and services – some of them are complex and not very obvious and some of them are fairly straightforward. As an example, I ran across this blog post from Michael Fortin (well known copy writer) […]

photo by laffy4k  The weather here in Kansas City can run to extremes, and we’ve seen the rainy, stormy extreme here in the last couple of weeks.  As I’m sure many others have been doing, I ended up needing a plumber…quickly and we luckily found a quality business to help us. Water can be a […]

I’ve had a few conversations recently about failure and it got me to thinking about the nature of failure and the small business owner. The reality is that if you’re human, you are going to fail.  Unfortunately failure has an undeserved bad reputation and most people either want to avoid it like the plague or […]

photo by rhettmaxwell  European countries tend to have at least 6 weeks of vacation per year. Actually the more important point – not only do they have that much vacation time, but they actually take the time off and use it!!! By contrast, the US is averaging about 16.6 days of vacation (according to a […]

One of the blogs that I’ve followed for several years now is Pamela Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation – I first found her blog when I was trying to figure out what I was going to do as I was leaving the corporate world and I’ve kept reading her because she is interesting, entertaining and […]