Mike Werling

One Candy Bouquet franchisee defies the downturn by doing her homework first

TGA takes the country club out of a country club sport.

Entrepreneur scores with low-tech game in high-tech world.

Being ecofriendly doesn't mean you don't have a great product.

Leading the ecofashion movement

The Brütül Turtle

Fringe benefit statements highlight employees' true compensation.

Uncover a radical approach that delivers what your customers really want.

The 100 Best Business Books of All Time Guerrilla Marketing The Art of Innovation The E-Myth Revisited Sam Walton: Made in America–My Story The Essential Drucker The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey Good to Great, Jim Collins The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker How […]

Don’t look now but it’s Friday the 13th. The dreaded unluckiest of days–something to do with the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. People still act weird when the 13th, which we have every month, lands on a Friday (but people are acting weirder all the time now, so it’s getting harder to distinguish). On […]

I have a confession. I’ve never twittered. Or tweeted. Dang, I’m not sure which I haven’t done. You tweet on Twitter. Can you twitter, also? That little confession right there is the perfect tweet, at least as far as I know: It’s exactly 140 characters, which is the maximum allowed by Twitter, and I didn’t […]

I am a Jimmy Buffett fan. OK, it might be a little more than that. I have a Margaritaville tattoo. For real. It was my first one. You’re darn right it hurt. In fact, I told the needle-wielding tattoo artist, “Um, we can probably stop at Margarita.” He said, “Too late. I’ve already got the […]

It’s no secret there’s plenty of bad news about the economy and the state of business. The recession and its impact on business are making headlines every day. As with any economic slump, plenty of people have plenty of questions about what they can do to survive. One organization is helping business owners in Southern […]

What do a mathematician and a lumberjack have in common? Other than being on the same list of ranked jobs for 2009, not much. Job portal CareerCast.com wanted to know what the best and worst jobs are (though after today’s job report every job looks pretty good). So the editors there compiled a set of […]

Television has entertained Americans for more than 50 years. Through those decades, a few shows have focused on employers, but many others have featured businesses by association–by focusing on the lives of employees outside the workplace. And good employees rarely make for funny employees, so the bad ones get the spotlight, and the laughs. I […]

The Entrepreneur Growth 2.0 conference invaded the convention center last week in Long Beach, Calif. Business owners got the chance to hear Robert Kiyosaki speak, attend breakout sessions and mingle with other entrepreneurs. One of the popular sessions was called Pitch the Editors, and it gave attendees the chance to talk to Entrepreneur editors for […]

Online review site Yelp launched a free new marketing tool today called “About This Business,” which allows small-business owners to share their story with the public on their business’s Yelp page. Stories can include a company’s specialties, a short history, an introduction to the manager/owner of the business and five other recommended businesses. Business owners […]

They say records are made to be broken. But few will be broken with as much vigor and flair as the budget deficit for the just-ended fiscal year, which will be broken by the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 of this year (if Wall Street estimates provided by The Associated Press hold true). This […]

Business idea? Check. Business plan? Check. Funding lined up? Check. Business name? Crap. For some would-be entrepreneurs, choosing a business name can be as labor intensive as raising the first round of venture capital. Picking a name is hard. It has to be something memorable without being cliche or similar to an existing name. If […]

Business owners want to hire more people, but they can’t get credit to create more products so more people can buy their products and stimulate their bottom line because consumers can’t get credit to buy more products because their home equity lines have dried up because banks are tightening their credit lines because they can’t […]

Know what bothers me every day? It’s the everyday misuse of every day. The everyday instances of it should have rendered me immune to it by now, but every day I find myself offended when every day is everyday and everyday is every day–though the latter rarely happens. At least not every day. I see […]

You don't have to be a theoretical physicist to share a few character traits with Albert Einstein. Heck, you don't even have to know what theoretical physics means.

Richard Branson isn't defined by business or personal success. His life is a combination of both.

Think your business has had a bad day? Think twice before you complain toanyone, especially the employees of a Wells Fargo bank branch in LaMesa, Calif., just outside San Diego. That particular branch was robbedSept. 30. Three hours later, it was robbed again–by a differentbandit–according to The Associated Press. As an admittedly small consolation, both […]

OK, so the nearly $1 trillion Wall Street rescue is all but assured, butthe benefits to small business remain to be seen. In the long run, morecredit should become available for entrepreneurs who need funding tostart a business or expand an existing one, but for now it’s the bigplayers who will lap up the taxpayer-sponsored […]

Upwards of $1 trillion. That’s what kind of commitment the Treasury Department is making with its plan to buy up the bad mortgage loans that are throttling the U.S. economy. The bailout plan as written calls for $700 billion, but no one really knows how much the questionable loans add up to, so it could […]