By KRISTEN GERENCHERFrom MarketWatch For Lindsay Holt, starting a business two years ago with her new husband already has paid off in an end run around maternal guilt. For years, as a single mom working for a catalog company in the San Francisco Bay area, she used to leave for work before her daughter Danni, [...]
Archive | July, 2007
Stephen Covey: Goals and Priorities
by Robin Malau on 11. Jul, 2007 in Leadership
[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHHj5Q7ep3k[/youtube] For Stephen Covey’s best book to date, please check out here: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Get Your Website Critiqued by Entrepreneurs from forum
by Robin Malau on 11. Jul, 2007 in Entrepreneurship
A bold StartupNation community member posted a request for a critique of his website and the response has been fantastic. What better way to gauge the effectiveness of your site than to ask those who have gone before you? Be prepared to hear both the good and the bad. But hey, you can take it. [...]
What Do You Think? How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
by Robin Malau on 11. Jul, 2007 in Leadership
Online forum OPEN until Wednesday, July 25. It may be important for us to believe that our leaders have control over performance, whether or not it is true, particularly in times of turmoil or concern about the future, says Jim Heskett. So to what degree should leaders become thespians, creating an impression that fits expectations? [...]
Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights
by Robin Malau on 03. Jul, 2007 in Small Business Marketing
[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIVlM435Zg[/youtube]
CHOOSING A RETAIL LOCATION
by Robin Malau on 03. Jul, 2007 in Retail Knowledge
FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED Three factors confront you as an owner-manager in choosing a location: selection of a city, choice of an area or type of location within a city; and identification of a specific site. If you are going to relocate in another city, naturally you consider the following factors: Size of the city’s [...]
Goodbye My Beloved Dogs
by Robin Malau on 03. Jul, 2007 in Thoughts and Discoveries
So I gave up my last dog today. It’s a St. Bernard named Morgan. Months earlier I let go 2 Golden Retrievers, a Siberian Husky and a Chow Chow to be adopted by our friends. So I gave up my dogs to this beautiful little creature. It was a trade off between our dogs and [...]
Example of Store KPIs
by Robin Malau on 02. Jul, 2007 in Retail Knowledge
Sales compared to budget/target: Actual sales $ divided by budget/target sales $ Sales compared to last year (or any other period):Actual sales $ for a given period divided by actual sales $ for the period you want to compare to Sales per Square Foot:Actual sales $ for a given period (usually a month or a [...]
Learning From Experts is Always Helps
by Robin Malau on 02. Jul, 2007 in Thoughts and Discoveries
Lately, me and my wife have been busy taking care of our newborn daughter. What we learn from this is the words ‘you think you know everything but you don’t have the idea’. Haha… ya! Before the baby was born, we think we can take care of what she needs. Anything, we thought we’ve prepared [...]
How To Raise Capital
by Robin Malau on 01. Jul, 2007 in Book Review
The entrepreneur’s step-bystep guide to venture capital–where to find it, how to secure it, and what to do with it Fewer than 40 percent of entrepreneurs seeking new business funding each year actually get that funding. How to Raise Capital improves those odds, providing prospective as well as current business owners with the knowledge they [...]
