When I started Sisarina initially in January 2001, I used a paper ledger, a desktop computer with a CRT, and printed websites out to show clients in person. This was because many people still didn’t have email. Being at the forefront of building websites for small businesses has shown me just how far we’ve [...]
Melanie Spring
Melanie Spring shares more lessons learned on hiring well.
Melanie Spring shares lessons learned on hiring well; great advice for women entrepreneurs.
Melanie Spring of Sisarina credits her mother for her entrepreneurial spirit, in a Mother’s Day tribute.
Standing Behind Your Staff
How to Have a Work/Life Balance
Faith and Enthusiasm: Cornerstones of Entrepreneurship
Once upon a boot camp the young entrepreneur with the growing company and the old advisor with many entrepreneurs as clients came together to talk about building a business successfully. Image: (CC) Shashi Bellamkonda Here’s what you can learn from their mistakes. Blunder #1: Being too cheap in the early stages Whether you are an [...]
The definition of networking is “to cultivate people who can be helpful to one professionally.” The core of this is lost on most business owners and salespeople. To cultivate means to really work at something. In order to network well, we must plan to befriend those around us. We work with people we like, not [...]
One of our regular contributors, Melanie Spring (pictured above at this past Saturday’s #wgbiz boot camp), is holding a special class for CEOs on strategic marketing. Here’s the 4-1-1 in Melanie’s words: America runs on entrepreneurs. Those small businesses are made up of people with passion, excitement and drive. Most business owners know how to [...]
