Tricia Drevets

Regular Contributor to Businessing Magazine. Tricia Drevets is a freelance writer who specializes in business and communication topics. A community college speech and theater instructor, Tricia lives in beautiful Southern Oregon.

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For Immediate Release: How to Make Press Releases Work for Your Small Business

July 20, 2016

It has been a mainstay of business communication for decades, but who wrote the first press release? Historians give the credit to an American named Ivy Lee. In 1906, Lee’s marketing agency was working with the Pennsylvania Railroad as a client at the time of a deadly train accident. The Atlantic …

How To Be a Great Boss to a Diverse Team

July 14, 2016

"The worst kind of group for an organization that wants to be innovative and creative is one in which everyone is alike and gets along too well," according to Stanford University’s Margaret A. Neale. “And the key to making nearly any kind of diversity work is managing it well. “ Are you building …

Got Public Speaking Anxiety? Here’s How to Conquer It

July 7, 2016

One of the best ways to grow your small business is to be involved in your community. When you give talks at community events, it gives potential clients the chance to meet you and to learn about how your company can help them better live their lives. From school job fairs to Chamber of Commerce …

How to Start a Small Business Right Out of College

June 23, 2016

You’ve heard the horror stories about recent college graduates. There is an unprecedented amount of student loan debt and despite an improving economy, 10.5 percent of recent grads are unemployed (as compared with 8.4 percent in 2007). As the Economic Policy Institute put it in a May 2015 …

How Developing Your Writing Skills Can Make You a Better Business Owner

June 17, 2016

As a community college instructor, I often hear students complaining about required courses that are not related to their major. “I’m never going to use this,” they grumble about certain classes. However, I like to challenge students about how core classes can help them succeed in almost any …

Steps for Launching a Food Truck Business

June 17, 2016

The food truck business has more than survived its “fifteen minutes” of fame -- it is still growing. According to 2015 research compiled by Statistic Brain, annual food truck revenue in the U.S. is $1.2 billion, a number that has grown 12.4 percent over the past five years. Last year, there were …