Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

How Companies Can Get Smart About Raising Prices

Posted on July 23, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Raising prices can be difficult; do it right. Continue reading →

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8 Expenses You Can Stop Paying Today

Posted on July 13, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) publishes a good magazine and comes up with good blog articles periodically (no pun intended) Here are the 8 expenses (with our take on them) : 1. Telephone service: we don’t entirely agree; landlines … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Employer Mandate? Never Mind

Posted on July 6, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

there are problems with the obamacare employer mandate delay Continue reading →

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Surviving a Succession Without a Plan

Posted on July 3, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Adriana Gardella has written an interesting post, about two sisters who inherited their family firm and had no idea what to do with it. However, the post is almost as interesting for what it omits: 1. I’m sure the sisters … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Survival Guide

Posted on June 22, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

We don’t normally promote books on this blog, and our comments about Obamacare’s long term viability are well known, but the book of the title is a really useful guide for small business to understanding what’s going on. We’ve worked … Continue reading →

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Surviving Obamacare, Part II

Posted on June 13, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

This is our second case study on how to work around the diktats of Obamacare and  assumes that implementation might take place in Jan. 2014. As we have said in previous posts, we doubt this will happen, but one never … Continue reading →

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Surviving Obamacare Part I

Posted on June 12, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

The idea for this series of posts came from a blog actually involving a Phoenix-based pizza chain that clearly doesn’t know what to do to cope with Obamacare, and is probably isn’t getting good advice, either. Keep in mind that next … Continue reading →

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10 Questions to Ask When Determining Your Salary

Posted on June 8, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

This post, which appeared in Entrepreneur.com, is very useful for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which is once you start making money, it’s frequently hard to determine how much you, the owner, should be paid. However, the article … Continue reading →

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I’m Not Balancing Work and Life And I Feel Great

Posted on May 24, 2013 by asechmentor@gmail.com

OK, this should be an entrepreneur’s mantra, especially women leading companies and trying to balance all of the other demands placed on women. It was written by Inge Geerdens, an entrepreneur writing for Linked In under the Thought Leader section. … Continue reading →

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How to ensure success when transfroming your sales team

Posted on February 20, 2013 by don.gray@salesengineeringgroup.com

This is an excellent article that defines how to ensure that you transform your sales team into the selling approach you want. Transformation must be lead from the top. It must be practiced from the top. And it must be … Continue reading →

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