<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070</id><updated>2024-08-30T16:31:55.164-07:00</updated><category term="Becoming An Entrepreneur"/><category term="Small Business Advertising"/><category term="Leadership Development"/><category term="Small Business Insurance"/><category term="Small Business Resources"/><title type='text'>Small-Business-Needs</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-2833412112843711482</id><published>2010-03-29T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-29T13:06:28.630-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Becoming An Entrepreneur"/><title type='text'>Online Business - Traffic</title><summary type="text">One of the easiest and best business models for&amp;nbsp;the individual is an online business. Whether part-time or full-time it gives you a way to generate income to sustain your family. They&#39;re cheap to start compared to a brick-and-mortar business, they have unlimited potential&amp;nbsp;and they are not based on a local economy. Plus. the little guy can compete with the big boys in business&amp;nbsp;just </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/2833412112843711482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/online-business-traffic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/2833412112843711482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/2833412112843711482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/online-business-traffic.html' title='Online Business - Traffic'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-7918500165787623661</id><published>2010-03-05T07:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-05T07:45:00.332-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Leadership Development"/><title type='text'>Strong Leaders</title><summary type="text">Strong Leaders

You become a strong leader in your business by “practicing” being a leader. It’s not a course you can take at a business college; it’s learned in the school of life as you’re doing business.

As a leader, you have to set standards and higher standards for your own behavior. You must do this because appearances are sometimes more important that facts.

Consider for a moment that as</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/7918500165787623661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/strong-leaders.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/7918500165787623661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/7918500165787623661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/strong-leaders.html' title='Strong Leaders'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-8428620561803133592</id><published>2010-03-04T07:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-04T07:57:00.177-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Small Business Resources"/><title type='text'>Hang On To Top Employees</title><summary type="text">Hang On To Top Employees

The best way to keep your top employees is to know them better than they know themselves. Use this knowledge to create the career of their dreams, and they’ll stick to your company like glue. The new “biz-speak” for this is called Job Sculpting.

The concept of Job Sculpting as defined by career experts, Timothy Butler and James Waldroop, in the Harvard Business Review, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/8428620561803133592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/hang-on-to-top-employees.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/8428620561803133592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/8428620561803133592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/hang-on-to-top-employees.html' title='Hang On To Top Employees'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-8138079642055771642</id><published>2010-03-03T07:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T07:41:00.282-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Small Business Advertising"/><title type='text'>Can You Sell Ideas to Others?</title><summary type="text">Can You Sell Ideas to Others?

No matter what type of business you’re in or what position you hold, you must be able to sell your ideas to others.

If you’re the owner, then you have to sell your ideas to your employees or your board of directors. If you’re an employee of a business then you must be able to sell your ideas to your boss, your company, or your clients. It seems that in this life, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/8138079642055771642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-you-sell-ideas-to-others.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/8138079642055771642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/8138079642055771642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-you-sell-ideas-to-others.html' title='Can You Sell Ideas to Others?'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-2470973804655000894</id><published>2010-03-02T06:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-02T06:51:00.419-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Becoming An Entrepreneur"/><title type='text'>Becoming An Entrepreneur</title><summary type="text">Becoming An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurial leaders do not have a mindset that adapts to failure. Things go wrong, of course, but entrepreneurs don’t call them “failures” they call them “glitches, mistakes, bungles, setbacks” – but not failing.

When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision he ever had to make, he answered that he didn’t know what a hard decision was. An </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/2470973804655000894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/becoming-entrepreneur.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/2470973804655000894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/2470973804655000894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/becoming-entrepreneur.html' title='Becoming An Entrepreneur'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-9158173180160889736</id><published>2010-03-01T13:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T13:43:58.286-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Small Business Advertising"/><title type='text'>Small Business Advertising</title><summary type="text">Small Business Advertising

The real secret to small business success has nothing to do with technology tools, the internet or anything like that. In fact, it isn’t even a real secret. It has been around since man started to communicate. It’s WORDS!

Words carry enormous power. They can make you laugh hysterically, or destroy a relationship or friendship. Words have more power in them than any </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/9158173180160889736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/small-business-advertising.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/9158173180160889736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/9158173180160889736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/03/small-business-advertising.html' title='Small Business Advertising'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-789922760341779070.post-4266573089175749643</id><published>2010-01-30T15:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T13:32:11.728-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Small Business Insurance"/><title type='text'>Choosing a Small Business Health Insurance Plan</title><summary type="text">Choosing a Small Business Health Insurance Plan

Are you a small business owner? If you are, are you interested in getting health insurance coverage for yourself and your small business employees? If you are, you will need to find a small business health insurance plan to buy. In the United States, it is also common to hear a small business health insurance plan referred to as a group insurance </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/feeds/4266573089175749643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/01/choosing-small-business-health.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/4266573089175749643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/789922760341779070/posts/default/4266573089175749643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://small-business-needs.blogspot.com/2010/01/choosing-small-business-health.html' title='Choosing a Small Business Health Insurance Plan'/><author><name>Greg Rouse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11764977502960820567</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0sPmCMSVo8vP17d94CEOMnoquk2kygNP0Du9b_qBpNPghfLLkvtggSBGfrD6LNlfKl-1gR4HYmzLQ9hy_Nf7G3x157o5fex8QZ7ISY7JZ0ObCmU-XJQQgIajmyLACQc/s220/151.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>