Balancing Your Life to Make Your Small Business Better
Guest blogger, Lindsey Paho, a writer at Professional Intern is back for another visit. This month her post focuses on the importance of a balance life for small business owners. Keeping your personal life in balance while ensuring your business stays in the black can be tough. And small business owners have an especially difficult time maintaining a healthy balance because the demands of a small business can easily bleed over into personal life. The line between work and relaxation can be easily crossed, especially if you tend to work from home as well as the office. Take a Break from...
read moreInterns Move Small Busines Forward
At Roundpeg, we love interns, so I was delighted when Lindsey Paho, a writer at Professional Intern offered to send us a guest post. If you’re one of those brave souls at the helm of one of the United States’ more than 5.6 million small businesses with employees other than yourself, you solve problems every hour. Some of these problems have become routine, but others loom large, such as how to expand without wrecking an already tight budget. Even more daunting is figuring out a way to grow your own knowledge base to effectively manage that small business when it’s not so small anymore....
read moreRoundpeg: Where I Fit
As a business owner, every now and then, you should take the time to look at the business you have created. Let’s face it, if you are a small business owner, your business is more then just a job, it is your life. Often in the rush of the day to day, it is easy to get focused on what is going on in the business (downward sales trends, unhappy customers, and unrealistic project deadlines) and forget why you started the business in the first place. But I remember. I was tired of being a “roundpeg” trying to fit into a square corporate hole. I was tired corporate...
read moreEarning More by Doing Less
There are some days I feel a bit overwhelmed as I look at my calendar first thing in the morning. Back to back meetings all day long, with barely a break for lunch generate revenue for Roundpeg, but are they really the best use of my time? In a recent blog post Patty Azzarello writing for Liz Strauss argues that the way to really win is to be “less busy” As a leader you need to find time to step back, look at the big picture and plan. She advocates: Refuse to burn all your time up on things that are not so important. Trust that giving yourself time to think will help...
read moreLosing to Win
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal had a headline that disturbed me: “[Business Plan] Competitions Might Not be Worth the Effort.” It goes on to tell the stories of disappointed entrepreneurs who didn’t place in the money at business plan competitions. Some would say they lost because they walked away without a dime. But I strongly disagree: business plan competitions are critical in helping new business owners achieve their goals. Not only does it provide impetus for them to sit down and actually write a plan, they can also receive invaluable feedback from the...
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