Jim Smith
YCHANGE International
Jim Smith mentors entrepreneurial start-ups and counsels small to mid sized companies that are looking to expand or are under performing or under capitalized.
According to Christopher Steiner, Staff Writer at Forbes Magazine, in his article on September 21, 2010 titled "Five Way To Build A Virtual Company",...
The business plan is generally the last thing you want to focus on. It takes a lot of time and forces you to slow...
If you want to build a sound relationship with your best customer, you need to focus on communicating well with him or her. There...
The CEO of a company sets the vision, makes a set of rules to establish a company culture, builds the management team, then leads...
A friend of mine recently received the attached letter from Key Bank. It appears that he kept some small change in a checking account...
So you want to be an entrepreneur. Well, here are fifteen items you need to be on top of. These won't ensure your success...
The most important element of your business plan is undoubtedly the financial analysis. This will tell you whether your business idea is financially viable...
Every small business, whether established for a while or just starting up, should have a small business support network. This should be at a...
Want to make your small business look big? You can learn a lot from Monte Enbysk, a senior editor at Microsoft Office Live,...
In his column in USA Today, Steve Strauss posted this in answer to a question he received. He listed these five reasons reasons why...
Small businesses can learn a lot from Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, who in his article in...
Steve Strauss posted this in his column in USA Today. I think that any small business that is not maximizing its Web presence is...
You need to understand who your target market consists of and what they think of your business and your product/service. Your target market...
Many a business plan pundit is out there preaching the gospel of the One Page Business Plan. Many a business owner or entrepreneur...
Lisa Barone mentions is her column at Small Business Trends that small business owners and social media was one of the big topics of...
Are social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn being overhyped? Are all the social media pundits sending today's business down a dark...
Concrete Ears photo credit: peter pearson To really understand your market and get to know what pain your favorite customers are suffering and what their...
Steve Strauss posted this in his column in USA Today. One of the points he makes is to never stop prospecting: There are three...
As an entrepreneur, you wear two important hats: management and leadership. You put on the management hat as you run the day-to-day business...
My friend P. Griffith Lindell way back in 2007 left this comment to one of my posts: Leaders learn that it is easy to "think...