Tag: Business Tips
101: Business Travel
As you are working on your business’s budget for the new year, you may be looking for expenditures that you can afford to cut back on in 2012—particularly if you are still feeling the strains of the sluggish economic environment. One item that may look tempting to your cost-cutting axe is your travel budget. After [...]
Posted by Gregg Schoenberg on Monday, March 12th, 2012Posted in 101
Tags: 101, Business Tips
Tips for Productive Meetings
Meetings at the office can be major time and productivity killers. Read this article from American Express’ openforum.com to learn how to make the most of them. See excerpt below: Many business meetings seem to be populated with people who derail and prolong discussion and who then wonder why nothing ever gets accomplished. Dealing with these [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011Posted in Articles of Interest
Tags: Articles of Interest, Business Tips
Best and Worst States for Business
Wondering where to start your business, check this list from an article on Cheifexecutive.net first. See excerpt below: More than 500 CEOs considered a wide range of criteria, from taxation and regulation to workforce quality and living environment, in our annual ranking of the best states for business. The charts and articles in this special [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Posted in Articles of Interest
Tags: Articles of Interest, Business Tips
Ideas for Brainstorming Names for Your Company
While you could spend up to $80,000 to hire a firm to generate a name for your company, you can also rely on good old-fashioned, cost-effective brainstorming. But, how do you create the best name for your company without a branding specialist? One way to begin is to turn three simple, but powerful words into [...]
Posted by Christina Cornelius on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011Posted in INC Knowledge
Tags: Business Tips, Company Name
101: Steps to Producing Your Own Company Videos
Back in October I wrote an article announcing the launch of our video series here at Harvard. In this article I want to elaborate more on what it takes to produce a series of videos. Many of you have probably thought about doing this, but are not quite sure what it takes to produce a [...]
Posted by Michael Bell on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Posted in 101, Videos of Interest
Tags: 101, Business Tips, Videos of Interest
Adding Value
In business, are you adding value? Not just value in your product or service, and not just value in the company, although both of those are important. What I am referring to is adding value to the relationship itself. Adding value to the relationship means that every time you interact with the customer, that customer [...]
Posted by Devin Scott on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010Posted in INC Knowledge
Tags: Business Tips, Customer Service
Tips For Hiring Your First Employee
As your business grows it can be exciting and scary. One of the biggest leaps of faith is going from a one man show to having employees. Here’s a great article from Business News Daily filled with tips regarding this topic. Hiring your first employee can sometimes seem daunting. And if it doesn’t, you aren’t [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010Posted in Articles of Interest
Tags: Articles of Interest, Business Tips
Choosing a Domain Name
Choosing the name of your domain can be a difficult task. Maybe you want it to match the name of your entity, but it is not available. Or maybe you want something completely different but you don’t know where to start. There are so many choices and options out there and at the same time [...]
Posted by Heather Garza on Thursday, September 16th, 2010Posted in 101
Tags: 101, Business Tips, Domain Names
101 on Business Licenses
Every day we are asked questions about business licenses. Generally, the business license is obtained in the city, township, county and/or state, and even on the federal level in many cases. The determining factor is usually whether your company is physically conducting business in the “jurisdiction”. Depending on your locality, you’ll file for two, three [...]
Posted by Michael Bell on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010Posted in 101
Tags: 101, Business Tips
Survival Strategies
Jeff Cornwall from The Entreprenurial Mind blog has an interesting article discussing survival strategies for entrepreneurs. Here is an excerpt: Every small-business owner should continue to run his or her business cautiously and prudently. There will be more tough times ahead. Look for growth opportunity. Over the coming months, more of your competitors will probably [...]
Posted by Carleigh Lowe on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Posted in Articles of Interest
Tags: Business Tips, Entrepreneurs
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