Tag Archives: small business owner

Protecting your good name in the digital age

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Jay Morris

From time to time I have tried to help out a small business owner in my neighborhood with marketing ideas and advice. Lately, we have been looking at Yelp and pondering how to mitigate the damage to her reputation from … Continue reading →

Posted in Management, Marketing | Tagged bad reviews, branding, Google, reputation management, small business owner, Yelp | Leave a comment

Small Business Week, taxes and being ‘independent’

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Jay Morris

I meant to post this at the beginning of Small Business Week (June 16-22), but I was too busy being a small business. I suspect most of the nation’s 28 million small businesses probably weren’t celebrating much this week either. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Staying motivated | Tagged Bob Dylan, SBA, small business owner, Small Business Week | 2 Comments

‘Catch-up’ Thursday: eParachute and entrepreneurship

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Jay Morris

Last November, when I posted on the remarkable longevity of Dick Bolles’ What Color is Your Parachute, I noted that a new electronic version of the book was being readied called eParachute. That website is now live (sort of), and … Continue reading →