Business Success Strategies
Business Success Strategies Q&A with Liz Elam: Collaboration and Growth Through Coworking
By SBE Council at 18 June, 2013, 12:20 pm
Liz Elam gave up her corporate job to become an entrepreneur. She became a very successful one. Along the way she discovered another entrepreneurial calling in the emerging coworking sector. Liz founded Link Coworking – a coworking space in Austin, Texas. Now, she is a leading industry player within the United States and globally. In this [...]
Read More >>Where in the World Are 95% of Your Potential Customers?
By SBE Council at 28 May, 2013, 10:50 am
By Michael Masserman and Presented by FreeEnterprise.com- When I think about the benefits of exporting, I consider the thriving small businesses across Washington, D.C. – from Eastern Market to 14th Street. How would those businesses fare if they marketed their storefront to just five of every 100 customers that passed? Not well. But that’s the [...]
Read More >>Business Success Strategies: Passion, Personal Service, Innovation Keys to Retail Staying Power
By SBE Council at 22 May, 2013, 1:01 pm
Betsy Fisher is a dynamic woman entrepreneur. Her retail clothing boutique has outfitted the most powerful women in Washington for 35 years. In this Business Success Strategies Q&A, Betsy shares her success secrets, and how she has endured in this tough and competitive retail sector. Since her store’s founding in 1988, Betsy Fisher has outfitted the women of Washington, D.C. with [...]
Read More >>What Crowdfunding Can Glean from the Successes of P2P Lending
By SBE Council at 13 May, 2013, 3:02 pm
By Dara Albright, Founder of NowStreet- Since 2006, P2P & online lending have enjoyed explosive growth. Lending Club and Prosper, America’s two largest P2P lenders have now surpassed $2B in loan origination, and P2P has captured the attention of industry legends, the financial media, the investing public and even today’s technology giants. Lending Club’s board [...]
Read More >>Business Success Strategies: Building an App? 5 Questions to Ask Your Mobile Developer
By SBE Council at 7 May, 2013, 11:02 am
Presented by FreeEnterprise.com – Many companies are jumping into the world of mobile digital applications in an effort to attract more customers, and to build better relationships with the ones they already have. In most cases, that means hiring a mobile development company to design and build the app. Like any business project which requires [...]
Read More >>Business Success Strategies: A Small Business Advisory Board Can Fill Your Knowledge Gaps
By SBE Council at 3 May, 2013, 8:29 am
FreeEnterprise.com/NY Enterprise Report- Small business owners would be the first to tell you that they don’t have all the answers, but advisory boards can fill those knowledge gaps, according to a panel of speakers at America’s Small Business Summit this past week in Washington, D.C. Asking employees for input about such things as hiring [...]
Read More >>SBE Council Partners with CROWDFUNDX to Bring Entrepreneurs a Network for Localized Online Crowdfunding
By SBE Council at 4 April, 2013, 9:13 am
Crowdfunding success takes a Community…and the data shows that finding your first level network of initial funders is critical. That is why SBE Council is excited to announce our partnership with Crowdfunder in the launch of CROWDFUNDx. CROWDFUNDx creates localized online crowdfunding. Communities for cities across the U.S., and Mexico, connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems together [...]
Read More >>CROWDFUNDING Resources for Entrepreneurs & Small Businesses
By SBE Council at 4 April, 2013, 8:14 am
Small business owners and entrepreneurs are excited about changes in federal law (the Jump Start Our Business Startup Up Act – JOBS Act) that allow for equity and debt-based crowdfunding. What is crowdfunding and how can you prepare for it? While SBE Council works to get JOBS Act rules finalized, we encourage you to learn [...]
Read More >>SBA Launches RFP-EZ Pilot: An Online Platform for Accessing and Bidding on Federal Government Contracts
By SBE Council at 18 January, 2013, 9:33 am
By Karen Kerrigan- Yesterday, SBA announced a pilot project that allows small businesses to view and directly bid on federal government contracts. It’s called RFP-EZ. Through RFP-EZ, a company can easily search for a contract opportunity, review a statement of work, and bid for a project on the RFP-EZ site. There are a limited number [...]
Read More >>Business Success Strategies: Building Your Business With Crowdfunding
By SBE Council at 3 December, 2012, 3:28 pm
Chance Barnett, Co-Founder & CEO of Crowdfunder, shares his wisdom and strategies for successful crowdfunding. In this Q&A, he explains how crowd investing will revolutionize the environment for entrepreneurs, and helps small business owners understand the mindset of investors, and how to prepare for crowd investing. When crowd investing hits the marketplace sometime in 2013, online platforms will [...]
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