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Reducing Energy Consumption as a Small Business
We recently moved our Pelago office to some new digs. As we prepared for the move we challenged ourselves to think of ways we could reduce our energy consumption in our new space. We were able to make quite a few improvements to our office environmen...
Why Outsourcing Your Small Business Responsibilities is a Bad Idea
If you are a small business like Pelago, you probably wear a lot of different hats throughout your day-to-day operations. Everything from accounting to marketing becomes your responsibility. And while it may be tempting to outsource as much of your j...
Getting Started Marketing Your Small Business Through Online Social Media
The realm of social media — dominated by the likes of Facebook and Twitter — is currently going through a metamorphosis. Once thought to be the wild wild west of cellphone slinging teenagers, social media is maturing into a viable venue f...
Customer Service: One Good Reason Why Small Businesses Should Stay Small
Today I am writing from our new Pelago offices. We moved in here over the weekend. Almost every aspect of our move went well, except one. We lost our phones. In our dealings with Verizon, our account got dropped, so to speak. So what exactly happened...
Online Project Management Software is the Next Evolutionary Step for Small Business
We are currently undergoing an exciting and historical moment in the age of small business. Despite being in the midst of a recession, small businesses are finding ways to adapt to, and evade, new economical pressures due to their size and agility. W...
Small Business or Micro Business?
There is a lot of talk about small business in the news today, especially in light of the unpredictable economy, but did you know a small business is defined as having anywhere between 20 and 100 employees? That doesn't sound very small to us. We pre...
What Saturday morning cartoons taught me about small business
Memories of Saturday morning cartoons are the strongholds of nostalgia and pop culture for us children of the 80s. Sure, they were thinly veiled, half hour long commercials, but they also gave us at least thirty seconds of life lessons per episode. N...
Successful niche firms will help economy rebound
The ongoing successes of small businesses is being overshadowed by the media's heavy focus on the failings of corporate giants. The latest news about this economy doesn't seem to bode well for anyone. However, there is a resurgence going on in small ...
2009 is going to be a good year for creative small businesses
According to a survey of 209 creative service firms posted over at functionfox.com, 2009 is expected to be a good year for creative small businesses. It is rumoured that small businesses in general are poised to perform well in this new year, despite...
Let Someone Else Manage The Distractions
It is an unavoidable fact that anyone working for a small business, or freelancing, will be required to wear multiple hats. You will be responsible for many aspects of the day-to-day workflow outside your own core competency. When a business is compr...
Stress Management Tips for the Small Business Owner or Freelancer
The role of the small business owner, or freelancer, is a loosely-defined amalgam of time, tasks, projects, and nine million other responsibilities to pull you in every direction manageable. There are times — believe me because it's happened to me ...
Three ways to simplify your small business
When you stop to consider the amount of responsibilities required to run a small business the conclusions can be overwhelming. It turns out the only thing 'small' in a small business is the number of people. That means fewer people wearing many diffe...
The 80-20 Rule and Client Drama
The 80-20 Rule, AKA the Pareto Principle, states that “for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” This can be observed in any volunteer organization, for example, a church, where 20% of the people do 80% of the work...
Startup New Orleans
Home to some of the best jazz, zydeco, and voodoo gris gris music, the Crescent City is experiencing a rebirth of business. Entrepreneurs are finding ideas and opportunities in the wake of Katrina, turning devastation into inspiration and profitabili...
Valuing Time as a Business Resource
An interview with Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc., on why tracking time is a necessary business practice. Here are some excerpts from the interview on task and time tracking, Software as a Service, and encouraging employees to provide accurate data....
All Things To All People
Our company’s eight-year history and experiences with web development have taught us many lessons about running a small business. One of the most important lessons learned was that we can’t be all things to all people. When we first star...
