Jul

9

Deer-in-the-headlights marketing: get real

July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here’s a point I’ve made more than once: when you run a microbusiness, it’s important to invest in the intangibles.
That’s about resources. When you don’t have a giant marketing budget, you need to rely on your reputation. Your reputation is built from a combination of the quality of your product, the quality of your customer […]

Jun

12

Is Gen Y more entrepreneurial? Probably not

June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

Interesting mini-debate going on over at Risky Business about Gen Y and how entrepreneurial they may or may not be.
Mostly, this spat about the numbers isn’t really the central point, so far as I can see, because the issue only partly has to do with whether Gen Y and the Millenials are inherently more entrepreneurial […]

Jun

4

Maybe tomorrow just won’t look like today

June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here’s an age-old lesson of life and diapers:
If you see the need to change, then there’s not much point in procrastinating.
Case in point: here’s a tidbit from this week’s NDE News:
It’s been a tough year for the suburbs. First, the housing bubble burst, and now, gas prices are shooting through the roof. A new white […]

May

23

Food and fuel into the future

May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

So, here we are, at the end of an enchanting week of ruminating about the wide ranging issues around food and fuel. It’s a problem that seems to have at least temporarily stumped our nation’s leaders, a state of affairs that does not stop them from yelling about it a lot.
I’ve been going somewhere with […]

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