Sage Small Business Solutions

Sad Truth #1: Your Friends and Family Will Say They Support You. They Will Be Lying. Unless your friends and family are a bunch of self-made entrepreneurs themselves, they won’t really get why you’re doing what you’re doing. Sure, they’ll say they’re proud of you and they may provide warm words of encouragement and support. [...]

“Ok, before we get started. Let’s go over some ground rules.” The atmosphere in the room just dropped a couple of notches on the congenial barometer. I can almost hear each and every one of the people seated at the U-shaped table in front of me thinking the same thing. Uh-oh. Ground rules? Ground rules [...]

Yesterday was the first edition of Sage Small Business Solutions’ “What’s Your Problem?” Wednesday, where I invite readers of this blog and Facebook and Twitter fans and followers to submit a problem they’re having with their little business to get answers from me and anyone else in the community that can help them ‘get over [...]

I’ve spent most of my career working as a consultant. I started out over 10 years ago at one of the big 4 accounting and consulting firms. When I first started out, I worked almost exclusively with small to mid-sized, regional clients. Later on, my focus shifted mostly to large, multinational corporations. After having experienced [...]

“You’re giving away too much.”   I had just finished telling a good friend and fellow business owner my plan for launching a site for small business owners. She loved the idea, but was apalled at the notion of my providing so much useful information without charging anything for it. “You shouldn’t give all that [...]