http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Don+Dewsnap Business Management Don Dewsnap Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=555924&ca=Business+Management Starting with fifty dollars or starting with five hundred thousand, a small business owner must, must, must have a handle on his finances if his business is going to survive. You don't need a degree in accounting to apply common sense or to take good advice. You do need a little self-discipline, but... Business Management Don Dewsnap Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=554600&ca=Business+Management No, this is not your mother talking. This is a hard-nosed, long-time businessman who has watched many small businesses fail and a few succeed. No single factor determines the difference between success and failure. But one contributing factor has a high correlation to success: cleanliness. Possibly... Business Management Don Dewsnap Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=552188&ca=Business+Management Some small business owners plan to the smallest detail, sometimes planning themselves into a nervous breakdown from long hours and stress. Others are completely impulsive, shouting orders madly and cursing the dolts who didn't order enough whatchamacallits. Neither extreme results in smooth producti... Business Management Don Dewsnap Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=552190&ca=Business+Management You can learn all the techniques, tricks, and procedures of any and every aspect of business, but unless you understand quality, you will always be fighting an uphill battle. The problem is not that quality is hard to understand, but that most small business owners pay it little attention. When they... Business Management Don Dewsnap Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=552191&ca=Business+Management Pricing in a small business is far more art than science. For one thing, small businesses tend to change much more rapidly than larger businesses. Procedures, product offerings, and personnel can respond almost overnight to market demands and opportunities. Therefore the pretty and scientific charts... Business Management Don Dewsnap Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=552192&ca=Business+Management Whether a small business owner is a one-man show or has a staff of twenty, his business success depends as much on how he manages the business as on any other factor. Management is defined as coordinating the actions of the people in a business to achieve the desired results: high sales, loyal custo... Business Don Dewsnap Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=550323&ca=Business Of the many basic lies of business, one of the most destructive is that production has to trade off between quality and quantity in order to maximize profit. Acting on this false principle almost guarantees that a small business will only grow slowly, and not very far. Some trade-off is unavoidable.... Business Management Don Dewsnap Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=545925&ca=Business+Management A well-trained staff is more efficient and more productive and produces higher quality than a haphazardly or inconsistently trained staff. An untrained staff that is supposed to figure it all out on their own is a nightmare on the way to a disaster. In short, staff training is absolutely vital to th... Business Don Dewsnap Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=545246&ca=Business Time is a funny animal. Time can fly, and it can crawl. Time can disappear. Time can stretch and shrink. Time can be gorgeous, or give you nightmares. Time can be your friend and it can be your enemy. Time, in other words, is not dependable. You cannot tell it what to do. The trick to managing time... Business Management Don Dewsnap Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=544462&ca=Business+Management A ridiculous claim has repeatedly been made for the value of persistence in a small business, which boils down to, "If you persist, you will succeed." The problem with untrue claims is that when they are rejected, any related truth is rejected also. So let us sort out the truths and untruths about p...