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12 Keys to Family Business Success
Family members start a major portion of new businesses launched in the U.S. every year. Brothers come to mind, of course, when it comes to family business. Whatever the family ties, however, starting a business...
From the Home Office to a Commercial Building
Family First Business Model: Choosing an Office Environment When I decided to start my own consulting business to promote my brand of green building and sustainable communities (i.e., with a motto be not the cause,...
How Do You Tell Early Investors that You’re Going Out of Business?
Going out of business? Now What? Opening up your own business is always a gamble. According to the Small Business Administration, around half of all new startups fail within their first five years. Only a...
Monday AM Mojo: Enjoy The “Best Stuff” During Thanksgiving – Your Loved Ones!
As I’ve moved through life (gotten older), I’ve become clear that the most precious part of my life is the people that fill it. It is in my relationships with my parents, brothers and sister,...
Why We Had Kids… For Social Networking Help
I guess my husband and I always had in the back of our heads that we would have kids, so that when we were old and grey we would have someone to push around our...
Did I Just Get an Eye Roll?
Labor Day weekend is coming, which means the in-laws are coming--or as I like to call them the out-laws. My hubby's parents are great people, but after I quit work to devote time to my...
Singing The End of Summer Blues.
I hate to see summer go. Why? The hot days? Nah. The ample sunshine? Uh-huh. The carefree days? Get real. I miss the presence of my free (sorta free) labor source: my children. During the...
Welcome to the Sandwich Generation
I think I can safely mark in my calendar that yesterday I became an official member of the Sandwich Generation. My son started kindergarten and while he was there, my sister called from the hospital...
Your family are your most important people
I have an exterminator who comes to my house to take care of pests. In the winter he plows snow. Paul has owned his pest extermination/snow removal business for 25 years. Every time he comes...