I met a person the other day who recently got laid from his work due to the business closing down and as a result he went with the self employment route. While he had the skills to do the work, his biggest barrier is his language as he couldn’t exactly speak English in a fluid
So I called the credit card company to dispute charges from that BlueFur web hosting company. It was handled pretty professionally I thought. At first the person didn’t know what company it was and just asked generally if I had an agreement with the business as he was trying to understand why they would bill
When I first read this book my expectation was that there would be a lot of tough love advice where the author tries to tell you the unpopular things you need to do in a business to be financially successful. Example, items like how you have to sacrifice a lot of personal activities and not
So this is the last chapter titled “It’s Not the Economy, Stupid, It’s You.†I guess almost every business and finance book that has been written over the past year or so references something about the economy issues. Cloutier uses this chapter to mostly call out people that want to use the economy as an
Looks like book is coming to an end as this is the second last chapter titled “Teamwork Is Vastly Overrated.†It’s kind of similar to the other points I read in the other chapters where Cloutier emphasizes that employees and your business structure should be follow a military type of setup. Basically, you are like
The chapter title was “Give Up Golf, Retreats, Off-Sites, and Trade Shows.†Cloutier sure bashes golf a lot in this chapter where he feels for the most part it just costs business owners a lot of time and money. Example, factoring in how much you have to spend on memberships as well as looking at