Business Know-How Newsletter. Ideas to market and manage small businesses.

Make Better Business Decisions

Business Know-How — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST

Making decisions for your business can lead to unintended consequences and frustration. Here's how you can walk through the decision making process to make the best decisions possible.

How to Become an Inspiring Leader

Business Know-How — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST

Is the ability to inspire others a skill that can be learned? The answer is yes, and The Inspiring Leader, a new book by the authors of the best seller, The Extraordinary Leader isolates specific ways that merely proficient managers can inspire and motivate employees. Read an excerpt.

From Home Business to Multimillion Dollar Corporation

Business Know-How — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST

Twelve years ago, Lolita Healey was a stay-at-home mom. Then, while enjoying a much deserved girl's night out, she had an idea that has now grown into a multimillion dollar business. Here's how she did it.

Surefire Tips for Taming Meeting Monsters

Business Know-How — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST

Certain people have a knack for disrupting, distracting, and disintegrating potentially great meetings. These folks are often well-intentioned, but they wouldn't know meeting etiquette if it bonked them on the head. Here's a guide for taming your meeting monsters and getting more done.

Throw Out The Creative Filters, and Get Buy In!

Business Know-How — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

A great new idea is like striking gold for any leader and team. It can be collected, examined, enriched and sold. But the process of finding the gold can be difficult even for the best of leaders and managers.

8 Ways to Lose a Prospect's Attention Quickly and Easily

Business Know-How — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EST

When you make contact with a new prospect-either by telephone or in a face-to-face meeting-you have an extremely short window of time to connect with them. If you fail to achieve this they will quickly tune you out. Here are several things you can do to lose your prospect's attention in the first five seconds of the conversation.