If you wouldn't build a home on a cracked foundation, why would you build a business on one? A cracked foundation is damaged, weakened, unstable, torn apart, and flimsy. When you think about building a home, you think about how solid the foundation is. You want to know if the platform you are building your home on is sturdy enough to build upon. You wouldn't build a home on … [Read more...]
Top Ten Steps to Building your Business (or “Learn from My Mistakes”)
My partner and I started our web design company with two Mac laptops, a burning drive and passion for connecting people to the Web, and our personal address books. We were determined to focus on our core skills, which were converting ideas, needs, and processes into fully-functioning websites. We wanted to support minority-owned, woman-owned, green, progressive, … [Read more...]
Need a Business Website idea? Hint: Put “Secrets” somewhere in the Title
Post by Monica Flores, contributing Women on Business writer I started my first website in 1999, when I was a contributing member of The Odyssey World Trek for Service and Education http://www.worldtrek.org. This is a "blog"-type site, where my teammates and I travelled to 30+ countries and did "posts" with audio, video, and stories of people working on different social … [Read more...]