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A sound body and a sound business
One of the items from my list of business de-stressors is ‘don’t neglect your body (diet and exercise)’. It’s fairly common advice but have you ever really stopped to think about it?
I’m sure most people think it makes the list because most small business owners pretty much run themselves ragged and you need to do [...]
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Faint praise and low expectations
Okay, let’s see.
Now that the elections are over, according to a new CBS News/Washington Post poll:
(a) the public currently trusts Congress to handle our knottiest problems (57%) more than they trust Bush (31%) right now, even though they have nothing to base this upon since the newly elected Congress hasn’t even been sworn in yet, [...]
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Little things that can make the difference
One of the more amazing things that you sometimes see is people who are so dazzled by glitzy technology that they forget the simplest things.
Marcia Yudkin makes the point in her Marketing Minute newsletter today, where she makes some observations based on another year of judging the Webbys.
Yet I keep finding deadly oversights like these:
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Written by Dawn Rivers Baker
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Monday, 11 December 2025 |
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Today, I am feeling vindicated.
In fact ... no, I'm feeling more than vindicated. I'm feeling just a little bit smug.
Possibly you remember me venting in this space a few weeks ago about people who call themselves small business advocates but who unapologetically hold microbusinesses in utter contempt.
These are the folks who claim that microbusinesses are unworthy of the attention of policy makers, because they don't do things that are good for the economy the way larger small businesses (the ones focused on growth) do.
Microbusinesses, they say, don't create a lot of jobs and don't generate enough in receipts to make for significant Treasury revenues. They just generally don't do things (like focus on growth) that are good for the economy. Therefore, they don't matter. Q.E.D.
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