Melissa Armentrout, Owner of Skycrest Incorporated, answers Businessing Magazine's 5 Questions. She discusses the importance of staying true to your personal convictions when it comes to business. What are the primary service(s) or product(s) that your business provides? Skycrest is an Executive …
Entrepreneuring Articles and Interviews (category)
As an entrepreneur, you most likely wear many hats in your day-to-day work. Figuring out how to juggle all of the tasks you have to do, while still maintaining a life outside of work can be a challenge. Entrepreneuring articles focus on you, the entrepreneur, and how you can strengthen your areas of weakness when it comes to business and keeping a healthy work-life balance.
Is Having a Working Mother Good For You?
Coined in the late 1980s and solidified into the nation’s psyche with the 1990 Newsweek article “Mommy vs. Mommy,” the term “mommy wars” has once again been in the news. New research by Harvard Business School (HBS) found that adult daughters of mothers who worked outside the home when they were …
How to Develop the Mindset to Actually Reach Your Small Business Goals
This article is one in the multi-part series entitled The Entrepreneurial Mindset. When it comes to reaching your small business goals, a number of viable options exist. And most of them consist of some sort of step-by-step procedure that requires that you write your goals down in black and white …
Stay Focused When You Travel for Business
The demands of business travel differ from the daily demands of work and the stakes can often be high. Before you pack up for your next trip, keep these tips in mind. Know Your Personality and Plan Your Day Accordingly Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It is important to think about how you …
How Do I Know How Much to Pay My New Employees?
You have weighed the pros and cons of hiring some new employees and have decided to go for it. Now comes an even trickier decision – how much should you pay these people? Figuring out pay scales and salaries can be a complicated part of running a small business. Salary surveys often don’t cover …
Helping Inventors Succeed in Business: Radio Interview with Nicole Lininger
Dean Rotbart interviews Nicole Lininger, Director of Corporate Communications for InventHelp, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that works with inventors trying to bring their products to market. They assist inventors with everything from obtaining patents, producing prototypes, submitting …
