Despite the threats of tight credit, and concerns about the effect of the failure of the ‘bailout’ on “Main Street,” not everyone is worried. I spoke with two people today who received startup loans. One got a loan for a professional practice with 10 percent down and no co-signer. The second got an SBA loan […]
Paul Newman died Friday of cancer at the age of 83. It’s hard to imagine this world without Paul Newman in it. He was not only a great movie actor, but he was a humanitarian, a businessman, and, in a culture where people get divorced at the drop of a hat, he was married […]
My husband is now a “double dipper.” It used to be that the term “double dipper” referred to people who retired from the military with another post-retirement government job . In my husband’s case, he retired from his company and is now working part-time for a company that does work for his old company (got […]
Lawmakers just announced the settlement of the $700 billion financial bailout, after much discussion. Whew! I for one am relieved.
The bailout does include limits on pay of executives. Most of us would agree with that, except for those execs, that it. And the legislation contains measures to help prevent […]
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I went back to school at age 53 to get a PhD. I thought I was too old, and that I would be learning alongside kids. I was surprised to find that most of the people in the school were baby boomers, just like me. And we aren’t alone. According to […]
I recently visited a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Iowa. On the wall, there was a little red plaque about 8 inches square. The guide said that Wright only would put one of those plaques on a house if the owners agreed to let him design it exactly as it wanted. They couldn’t change anything. […]
I love helping people start their own businesses, and I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t start one right now. Am I crazy? Maybe, but not for that reason. If you want to start a small business in the midst of this “recession/depression,” consider a business that will be “recession-proof.”
I’m not sure what the […]
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I don’t usually bring in my outside blogging to Small Business Boomers, but I’m interested in what you think. On my About.com Guide Site, U.S. Business Law and Taxes, I briefly outlined the major business tax proposals of each candidate , and I created a quick poll.
Or you can […]
What’s the difference between hard work and working hard? Seth Godin (in small is the new big) says working hard doesn’t take much mental energy, and it also doesn’t produce anything meaningful. You can work hard every day at a factory job and end up retiring with no improvement other than 30 years of pay.
Working […]
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Seth Godin, in Small is the new big (DoYouZoom, Inc., 2006) says that benchmarking isn’t such a great idea.
As business people, we have been taught to “benchmark;” that is, to set a goal and keep checking ourselves against that goal. Even in our personal lives, we “benchmark” when we set […]
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Written by Jean Murray [email] for b5media.
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