Track Your Money Efficiently
There are a number of ways to track your transactions. Learn about a few of our recommend methods.
Give Credit to Your Credit
We help you optimize your credit picture both personally and in business so your chances of acquiring money from lenders are the best they can be.
Find Your Funding, But Be Ready
If handled according to a plan, getting access to capital can be minimized into a periodic distraction.
Choose Your Bank Wisely
One of the most important relationships you can have as a small business owner is the one you build with your bank. Choosing the optimal bank can save you from unnecessary fees, mismatched needs and services, and other financial headaches.
Tame Your Taxes
Plan, prepare, and be proactive. Like the other processes in financial planning, the more work that you do in advance with your accountant, the more it will help your business through "tax season" and the toll taxes have on your business.
The Power of “Track Record Marketing”
I ran a new route this morning. I was weaving through the neighborhood and come across a variety…
The cell phone is in the cheese drawer
Having trouble keeping up? Can't remember if that important meeting was happening this week? Or was it next…
Are you with the rest of the sheep or are you a mountain goat?
I've spent some quality time talking with Seth Godin over the past couple of days. We focused our…
Bad Business Practice
Just venting about a bad business practice… There are all sorts of business practices that don't make sense,…
Negotiate!
I've made some vendor changes lately for StartupNation and have made some key purchases for the business. For…
I am green with business
I know it's bad to be green with envy. But it sure is good to be green with…
An Entrepreneur’s Theory of Relativity: You and “Them”
You gotta love Albert Einstein. Relativity speaking, I’m not sure what he was blessed with more – genius…
What’s our soldiers’ business in Iraq? Or more to the point, in America?
I’ve been tracking conversations in the StartupNation small business forums about people in the military and what their…
What is your ”Moonrise”?
There’s a phrase used among some photographers when they refer to a peer’s best shot. They call it…
Good networking. Great inspiration!
Inspirational examples of people who are MAKING IT HAPPEN are all around us. Several StartupNation community members gathered…
To move forward, work backward
Have you ever heard someone say, “let’s do a work back”? I met with a techie recently who…
Separating your business from ‘the noise’
I bought a sandwich for lunch at yet another great little cafe in Silicon Valley the other day…
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored…
Stepped into a cafe in Silicon Valley on the patio of a large office building – it was…
Put the fish closer to the camera!!! (The Power of Perception)
Had an experience recently that reminded me of a crucial marketing/sales principle… it's the idea that you should…
Once upon a time, this product was all the rage
We were at wine-aided dinner the other evening and started in on a discussion of favorite products from…