Posts belonging to Category Small business
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on May 17, 2010
Increasingly, savvy business owners are requiring proposals to ensure that they get the best possible solution at an attractive price; learning how to write great proposals to increase your win rate is a must. Once you are confident in your ability to compete on paper, proposals will become less of a necessary evil and more of a sure-fire way to gain a competitive edge.
Here are tips for making sure your business proposals are winner.s
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on May 14, 2010
So if public speaking scares you to death or if your skills need polishing, do something about it! There are plenty of resources available to help you. Besides the Dale Carnegie course, which is now given in a two-day format rather than the 8-week evening course I took years ago, there is Toastmasters International.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on May 13, 2010
Here are some things I’ve learned in the past year and a half that I wish I’d known when I started. I hope they help other newbies like my friend move up the Twitter learning curve faster than I did.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on May 6, 2010
So here’s the business lesson in this: Please don’t put a neophyte in charge of your Twitter presence. Since only 70 people are following @fchp_tips, I have to guess that Fallon is very new at this game. But they’d better learn quickly. It takes training and a cool head to respond to unhappy campers like me.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on April 29, 2010
Do you have a vision for your business? Or is that something you associate with big corporations, who talk on and one about their mission and vision in their annual reports and on their Web site? Well, small business owners and self-employed people can also benefit by creating a vision and putting it in writing.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on April 28, 2010
Here are three lessons I learned about how to restart your business in a new location.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on April 27, 2010
With Google Alerts, you select a term and then Google sends you an e-mail when new information using that term is posted to a Web site, a news site, a blog, or Google Groups. Alerts can also tell you when a video on your topic has been posted.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on April 26, 2010
Bad news can hit even the best of companies. Natural disasters, for example, can happen to any organization. Good communication with internal and external audiences during a crisis is crucial to maintaining your company’s most hard-earned asset—its good name.
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on April 23, 2010
Here are four common errors to avoid when pursuing publicity for your technology company:
Posted by Jeanne Yocum on April 22, 2010
Here’s a quote from yesterday’s Boston Globe article on how Massachusetts was gearing up to dole out its portion of appliance rebate funds provided as an economic stimulus by the Federal government: “We overbuilt the system to accommodate what we believe the demand will be,’’ said Robert Keough, assistant secretary for the MA Office of […]