Our mission is to help small business reach their maximum potential, and one tool we use to do that is business planning. Here are four reasons you need a business plan. A business plan directs you toward your ultimate goals. Think of it like a GPS for your business. The process illuminates blind spots. Through …
Excerpt from Writer’s Almanac. Today is the birthday of American composer and musician George Gershwin (1898), whose lyrical and jazzy pieces, like Rhapsody in Blue, “Summertime,” “I Got Rhythm,” and “Embraceable You,” has become part of the American Songbook and influenced musicians like Charlie Parker and Janis Joplin. Gershwin and his brother Ira wrote the music for popular shows …
As long as we remain in comfort and security, there is no need for personal or professional growth. However, evolution occurs when opportunities present themselves, and we recognize the vastness of the moment and are face to face with our lack of self-assuredness. It is in these tests we learn what is inside of us. …
Slark Consulting Group’s Women in Business Series are videos where other female entrepreneurs can find inspiration, listen to other women’s stories, gain new knowledge and insights, and be inspired by women who are achieving in business and life. In this video, I speak with Christina Walters, owner of Night Dispatch, who shares what it is …
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Twenty-one years ago on this date, in 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes. Two of the planes crashed into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center; a third crashed into the Pentagon. On the fourth, which was bound for Washington, D.C., passengers attempted to take control of the plane, and it …
While in the cereal aisle at my local grocery store, I overheard a grandmother telling her grandson, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it!” Immediately I was standing in my childhood home’s kitchen next to my 8-year-old sister with tears running down her face as my mom, slightly bent over, admonished me …
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For most of us, Labor Day signals a changing of the seasons; for some, this change is a welcome sign of cooler weather, warm sweaters, and pumpkin spice lattes for others is a time to say goodbye. So long to long days on the porch, burgers on the grill, and long respites in the pool. …
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