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Using Law to Your Strategic Advanatage
Michelle Bomberger — January 3, 2006
A recent book called "Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk" by Constance Bagley, a professor at...
Read More >Psycho-shopping
Michelle Bomberger — December 28, 2005
In light of the poor retail figures around the holiday season, I thought these points from an older Inc article on The Retail Group, a hot...
Read More >The future of retailing
Michelle Bomberger — December 28, 2005
I came across a couple of articles on small business retailers that had some key points of interest The first article questions whether there's a...
Read More >Last Minute Tax Strategies
Michelle Bomberger — December 20, 2005
Here's some interesting last minute tax advice from a November article in Entrepreneur Magazine to capitalize on some of the tax incentives expiring...
Read More >I have a website, now what? Optimization!
Michelle Bomberger — December 14, 2005
I was a naive small business owner who thought that once I built and published my website, it would then be searchable and accessible by potential...
Read More >More Small Business Resources
Michelle Bomberger — December 6, 2005
I recently met with Michael Franz of the Washington Small Business Development Center (WSBDC) in Seattle The WSBDC works with small businesses and...
Read More >Building a brand
Michelle Bomberger — November 29, 2005
A customer's selection of one product over another is not simply driven by the technical specifications of the product but rather involves both an...
Read More >Elevator pitch
Michelle Bomberger — November 15, 2005
I recently attended a seminar where Lorraine Howell of Media Skills Training coached us on preparing an "elevator speech" The premise is that if you...
Read More >“English-Only” Policies
Michelle Bomberger — November 8, 2005
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the cosmetics store Sephora, owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vitton, was recently sued by the Equal...
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