Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'Small Biz Advice'
Small Business Failure – Plan Ahead
Businesses succeed, businesses fail. A company worth $16 Billion in January 2008 like Bear Stearns can disappear in March 2008 for 1.5% of that amount. So there is not necessarily shame in business failure. For the small business owner, however,...
The Value of Originality
When I think long and hard about inspiration and influences regarding our business, I find it is a few unique individuals which have inspired and influenced me most. While I was in college, one professor, John T. Downs, was most...
Castles in the Air
One of the best pieces of advice I received in the first month after quitting my corporate job and starting Cedarcrest was to “Plan for Big Success Some Day.” I was full of lofty ideas about the world-beating company I...
Little Lessons from Big Business
Hello, Bizbox! Did you miss me? I’ve missed you. Sadly, I’ve been too busy lately working in my company to write about it. But here I am, back again, and ready to talk about the things I’ve learned from big...
Race Out And Buy This Book
Last Saturday I woke early, put on my running shoes, and joined 5,400 other competitors for a 10K race in New York City’s Central Park. There’s nothing like jostling within a massive pack of Type-A health-nuts to push myself to...
The Biggest Risk
My favorite travel guide in high school and college was Lets Go: Mexico for my frequent trips South of the Border. I recall two pieces of travel advice from the guidebook: 1. Lay out the clothes and money you think...
Roots
Small business is the engine of our economy. Each small business owner contributes horsepower. I have been a piston in this engine since 2003. When I was asked to write about how my business began, my first reflex was to...
Embracing the bend in the Road
After art school in the 70s, I took the road less anticipated. Without jobs in the art education market in those years, I was thrust into the booming retail market of the early 80's selling - of all things -...
The Green in Blue
A couple of years ago, I had the zany idea that I wanted to open a home furnishings store. It didn’t quite come from thin air: I was a graphic designer who had been unofficially studying interior design for some...
The Rut: Surviving small business plateaus and pushing past them
Lately I've been going through a quarter- life crisis of sorts. I started Design*Sponge in 2004 and for the past three years I've spent a good 10-12 hours a day in front of a computer working or blogging on the...
Shop Girl
One of the fun things about working online is the ease with which you can add and subtract content. At the drop of a hat I can cut a feature that isn't working ("d*s snaps") and add one that...
Getting Your Work Out There
I recently asked my readers what they would like to see addressed on this blog and the overwhelming response was "How do we get our work in shops?" One of the hardest things about getting a fledgling design business out...
How to Get Your Work Online: The Do's and Don'ts
I've wanted to write this post on D*S a number of times but it's never felt quite right posting something a little rant-y. But since this site has allowed me to take a different approach with things I thought it...
Making It Happen: How Does One Live Off of a Blog?
The question I get asked most is how on earth I live off of a blog. The answer is: I don't. Well, not entirely. There are few design bloggers I know who live entirely off of their blogs. Most people...
Being a Girl in Business
One of the few issues I didn't anticipate when I started my website was having to deal with people who didn't trust me because I was a young woman. I could understand the young bit (It’s completely fair to ask...
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