Business Brain Pickings

Short business advice, business trends and common business mistakes. Takes less than a minute to read.

when you don’t like customers

small businesses account for 99.9% of all US firms,98% of them make no profit in the first years and 10%…

2 years ago

how to price your products without going bankrupt

right now, are you wearing the cheapest possible t-shirt you could buy? what about the device you're reading this on,…

2 years ago

what is the chance…

if you were to start a business today, you have a: 20% chance of failing within the first 2 years;45%…

2 years ago

do it now

whatever brilliant thing you were going to do this year,do it this month. whatever brilliant thing you were going to…

2 years ago

what’s the point

the world collectively lost its s#!t when Simon Sinek published his now bestseller, Start with Why. for the first time…

2 years ago

level up

the first time I've ever had to write a CV was for school, as homework.it's not all that surprising, seeing…

2 years ago

failure, a love letter

if you've been writing marketing copy for more than 5 minutes you've probably heard of Blair Warren's "One Sentence Persuasion…"…

2 years ago

happy birthday, uncle sam

a date fraught with significance… the birth of american independence,the celebration of freedom, togetherness and justice; I like the sound…

2 years ago

You Inc.

congratulations! you're in business! you've been in business from the moment you've entered the job market. in fact, I would…

2 years ago

who writes blog posts anymore?

everyone, apparently…the next logical question then becomes - who reads all of these blog posts?well, that's between site owners and…

2 years ago

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