Category: Running a Business

How to Become a Certified Woman-Owned Business

How to Become a Certified Woman-Owned Business

If you own a business, you’re undoubtedly always looking for ways to increase its growth. Fortunately for female business owners, the Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) certifications give you access to resources and government contracts that can help you stimulate your company’s growth. What Is the Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Certification? The WOSB certification is a program coordinated by the Small Business Administration (SBA) that was created to provide a level playing field for women… Read More
The Loaded Gun that Every Executive Carries (and When to Fire It)

The Loaded Gun that Every Executive Carries (and When to Fire It)

This article originally appeared on Inc. Growing up in a small, religious community, I did my fair share of Bible study. One or two verses stuck with me over the years. James 3:5, for example. The subject is the human tongue, paltry in size yet able to cause enormous trouble with a few ill-chosen words: "Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" The language has aged,… Read More
10 Conference Call Faux Pas That Make You Look Bad

10 Conference Call Faux Pas That Make You Look Bad

Conference calls are an integral part of the workday for many office-goers. One area of office etiquette that they don’t teach you in business school is how to behave during a conference call. A conference call is a trust signal — whether you're starting a business or jump-starting a business relationship with a new partner, coming across as unprofessional can sink your chances of closing the deal and that can result in cash-flow problems for business owners or your job… Read More
11 Surprising Benefits of a Coworking Space

11 Surprising Benefits of a Coworking Space

James Hunt has worked in coworking spaces all over the world, from London to Bali.  He looks for ones that offer more than just a place to focus and a reliable internet connection. “I use coworking spaces wherever I travel to find and meet ‘my people’ - the entrepreneurs, the digital nomads, the people who don't want to work in normal offices,” he says. Like many others, Hunt finds the camaraderie and community forged in these work spaces as valuable… Read More
3 Steps to Make You Happier & More Productive

3 Steps to Make You Happier & More Productive

To run a successful business, you have to be able to crank. You have to be able to dig in, put your head down and focus like a laser on completing a specific task. No one and nothing can distract you. All of your energy, all of your efforts, are directed at a single objective. Entrepreneurs with legitimate cranking skills are likelier to achieve their ambitions than entrepreneurs without them. The demands of business are varied, quick-moving and constant — if… Read More
3 Tricks to Write an Email People Will Actually Read

3 Tricks to Write an Email People Will Actually Read

Imagine what it would be like to receive over a hundred versions of your favorite thing every single day. At first thought, it seems really nice, right? But the more you ponder the sheer room those things would take up, or the calories you’d take on, or god forbid the zoning and code enforcement regulations some of us would be breaking, over a hundred of anything on a daily bases seems like a horrible idea. Realistically, our email inboxes tell an… Read More