How to micro: don’t forget where your money comes from

Interesting blog post by my old friend B.L. Ochman earlier this week. She talks about how often companies have the wrong attitude about customer service.
The wrongness of the attitude has to do with the company idea of where their money comes from. For example, one of the things I’ve often heard about the corporate glass [...]

Doing business as Authentic You

One of the more impossible philosophical discussions in microbusiness circles is the “business versus personal” debate.
On the one hand, we are told, if people are dealing with you in a business context, they probably don’t want to hear about your daughter’s soccer game or your son’s first date. Keep the personal stuff out of it.
On [...]

A new microbusiness scholarship from NASE

(Photo by moyerphotos, via Flickr)
I did tell you, didn’t I, why my participation in my own blog here has been a bit sporadic?
I’ve gone back to school. I’m studying anthropology (and am contemplating a minor in economics), the better to conduct research on microbusinesses.
So, now that I have a very successful first year under my [...]

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