• Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
BUSINESS PLAN BASICS
What is a Business Plan? A business plan is a blueprint of your company, presented in standard business format that is logical and well documented. A good business plan is also:
A strategic vision of your company
Your most important communication tool
A document to obtain working capital and/or investments
A tool for planning, measuring and improving performance
A basis for sound decision-making
A way to motivate employees more…
• Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
• Sunday, February 14th, 2010
How to find your target in 800 million pages?
The performance of search engines used to find material on the Web is
deteriorating, new research has suggested. A study conducted by Drs. Steve
Lawrence and C. Lee Giles shows that no engine is now logging more than about
16% of the publicly-indexable Web.
more…
• Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Technical Realities vs. Client Expectations
With the relative newness of the "Internet for everyone" (only about 6 years
for non-government/military/academic folks), it’s not surprising that many
people think publishing a website is akin to creating a print brochure or
magazine. Indeed, the terms "electronic brochure" and "e-zine" are bandied
more…
• Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men and that means that
they are becoming a major force in the global marketplace. Even though the
business world demands that we leave a lot of unworkable behaviors and attitudes
behind, the emotional sensitivity and the capacity for human connectedness
usually attributed to women can be very useful in business negotiations. more…
• Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Whitney Johns, CEO
Capital Across America
414 Union Street, Suite 2025
Nashville, TN 37219
Phone: (615) 254-1515
Fax: (615) 254-1856
Web site: www.capitalacrossamerica.org
Email: capxam@aol.com
more…
• Saturday, February 13th, 2010
The National Women’s Small Business Summit to Build on the Work of Summit’96
and Summit’98, the National Women’s Economic Summits.
(Washington) The National Women’s Business Council (NWBC), a bipartisan federal
advisory panel, announced its support for the National Women’s Small Business
Summit hosted by Senator Bond (R-MO), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small
Business, Senator Kerry, ranking Democrat on the committee and several of their
esteemed colleagues. more…
• Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Goal for Reaching 5% Federal Procurement Falls Short;
Council Recommends Congressional Hearings
JULY 30, 1999 – Washington, DC – The 1999 NWBC Best Practices Guide:
Contracting with Women, has been published by the National Women’s Business
Council. The Guide identifies and analyzes successful public and private sector
procurement practices for increasing opportunities for women-owned firms as
prime and subcontractors.
more…
• Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Tap into three exciting African markets that offer dynamic
opportunities
for U.S. businesses. Join Assistant Secretary and Director General of the U.S.
Commercial Service, Marjory E. Searing, on the Women in Business Development
Trade Mission to Cairo, Nairobi, and Johannesburg October 1-7, 2000.
more…
• Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Small Business Programs
(OSBP) recently added another resource to its Web Site to assist small
businesses.
The site provides one-stop shopping for most of the regulatory compliance
assistance materials published by the Department’s enforcement agencies.
The Matrix is designed to serve as a clearinghouse for all regulatory
compliance assistance documents, publications, and printed information
published by the Department’s enforcement agencies. The Matrix shows
publications, including regulatory compliance assistance materials, prepared
more…
