At a recent women business owner conference, I participated in a roundtable with other women entrepreneurs to discuss common challenges. The dominant topic, which surprised me, was employee recruitment and retention. Many women expressed concern about hiring an employee, training them and then watching them leave after a short tenure. The High Cost of Employee […]
QR (quick response) codes are everywhere today. You know what I’m talking about, right? They’re the square—in the literal sense, not the “unhip” sense—squiggly cousins to the product bar codes that get scanned at checkout counters. People have QR code reader apps on their smartphones and when they are scanned the user is presented with […]
There are some basic attributes of small business owners and entrepreneurs that I really admire and they make me enjoy being around them. These include traits such as: Enthusiasm, Personal sacrifice, and Optimism. In their best form, these traits can help propel a small business to great success. However, if they aren’t tempered with realism, […]
I love small business. I grew up in a family business and I’ve been an entrepreneur since my early teens. I think every small business owner has a powerful story to tell. In fact, I told my husband that some day when I retire I want to drive across the U.S., stopping in small towns […]
It’s Memorial Day and many small businesses around the country are honoring our fallen soldiers on this federal holiday. For me, it’s a special day to honor my father who served in the Navy in World War II. The ship in this blog post photo is the one he served on in the Philippines. After […]