Why it’s time to stop balking at budgeting
“I hate budgets,” says John Minahan, a CPA who is co-founder and chief financial officer of Working Media Group, a marketing firm on Park Avenue South whose clients include IBM, American Express,...
View ArticleBeyond fruitcake: Creative gifts for customers
For many years, Planned TV Arts, a book publicity firm at Second Avenue and East 58th Street, sent its clients “traditional gift items like popcorn tins, calculators, pens and paperweights” during the...
View ArticleA fresh online resource for newbie entrepreneurs
Like most first-time business owners, Suzanne Scholten had lots of questions when she launched her Forest Hills yoga studio, Bamboo Moves, last year. A former ad executive, Ms. Scholten says she needed...
View ArticleAre you ready to put a price tag on your business?
If you’ve tried to sell a company in the past four years or so, you know the market for small businesses has been taking a long snooze, due to scarce cash, tight bank credit and general economic angst....
View ArticleHow to get what’s coming to you
Many businesses have at least a few customers who used to be fast payers, but whose accounts are now 30 or 60 or even 90 days past due. It can be awkward to collect from them, especially if the owners...
View ArticleAbsorbing a burst of new business
Let’s suppose you have an online enterprise that sells a hot new product–so hot that it’s featured on The View and Today, as well as in the June issues of Men’s Journal and W. At the same time, buzz is...
View ArticleSteer clear of ‘the passion trap’
It’s a paradox: Passion is an essential part of what drives people to start companies. Without it, why take the risk and put in the effort? Yet it seems that the more devoted you are to your initial...
View ArticleGive boring meetings a makeover
How many meetings will you attend this week, or this month? Possibly dozens: U.S. businesspeople hold about 11 million meetings a day, and the average manager goes to 61 meetings a month, one study...
View ArticleNeed to staff a tech project?
There’s a lot to be said for working your way through college. Just ask Arthur Langer, academic director of the executive master of science in technology management program at Columbia University, who...
View ArticleProtect your data from disaster
Richard Trivedi, founder and chief executive of tech consulting firm CadreNet, never thought he’d see businesses coping with worse disruptions than they did after Sept. 11, but Superstorm Sandy trumped...
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