Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Driving Customer Loyalty

Posted on July 2, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

We all know that customer loyalty is a good thing. After all, you spent money to acquire that customer somewhere in the past, and you’d like to keep him or her. Or, another customer referred said customer to you, and … Continue reading →

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Tweet Them Right

Posted on June 30, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

A question was asked Ted Rubin, one of the Entrepreneur columnists about using Twitter to boost customer loyalty using Twitter, and it bears reposting here: 1. Engage. Don’t just produce content, start a conversation with your customers. Look for what … Continue reading →

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Obamacare for Business

Posted on June 26, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Well, it appears that we’re stuck with this albatross for 18 months or so; I’m sure it will be at the top of the ‘repeal and replace’ agenda. But, as businessmen, we have a couple of observations: 1. It appears, … Continue reading →

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Do You Know When It’s Time to Hire Professionals?

Posted on May 18, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

There’s a great article on Chobani, the Greek yogurt pioneer, and it’s founder, who almost lost it all because he didn’t build a structure of competent professionals to help him manage the business. But, the big question the article didn’t … Continue reading →

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The Rise of the CEO Support Group

Posted on May 11, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

ceo groups are a useful tool in the ceo’s toolbox Continue reading →

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Keep Your Manufacturing Efforts Out of Commodity Hell

Posted on April 8, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

We’ve all heard that manufacturing in the US is a dying effort. Well, it need not be. Yes, you probably have to spend more in capital to make up for our higher labor costs, to meet (or go slightly above) … Continue reading →

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Inside PayPal’s MicroLending Program

Posted on April 6, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

You can put this one down under ‘who knew?’ Entreprepeur ran the summary of the PayPal program in their March issue, and it’s a revelation. Since launching the program, which is called Working Capital (we can’t even say how you access … Continue reading →

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The High Cost of Saving a Failing Business?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

Ya gotta love the Wall Stree Journal. They had a big article on March 26th on the high cost of saving a failing business, by putting it into Chapter 11, which might have amazed some, and scared some with the … Continue reading →

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If it’s not on the agenda, we don’t talk about it

Posted on March 9, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

This article appeared in Fast Company, and is in support of organized meetings, rather than disorganized blabfests. Meetings are one of the unfortunate byproducts of corporate life, but we’ve normally gotta have ’em. The trick is to keep them short … Continue reading →

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Make Time For Yourself

Posted on March 5, 2015 by asechmentor@gmail.com

There was an article in Fast Company recently that struck a nerve: Bobbi Brown, the founder of the cosmetics line of the same name, did an article on how she gets away from running her business: exercise, going to the … Continue reading →

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