The Freestyle Entrepreneur

It’s not enough to be anxious to please. One must please!
The Issue: Celebrating my bride’s birthday at an upscale seafood restaurant in Clearwater this past weekend, Sue and I enjoyed the food, but were turned off by our waiter’s annoying habit of fielding our comments and compliments with the same lame reply: “No problem.”
What I […]

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Finding and Keeping Good Employees
By Bill Willard
The Issue: You’ve always wanted your own business, and now you have it. Your business has a name, you have products, a location, a business plan, and (we hope) customers lining up—out front or online. What’s missing? Employees! The question of the week: How to find the right employees, […]

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Diversity: Decisive or Divisive?
By Bill Willard
Contributing Author
The Issue:
Diversity means understanding that each of us is unique, and that no matter who we are, what we look like, where we come from or what our backgrounds may be, there is a place for us.

In the workplace, however, diversity has been a decidedly mixed bag. As Libertarian […]

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National Health Insurance and Your Business
The Health Care Debate
By Bill Willard
Contributing Author
The Issue:  Many of the millions of Americans without health insurance are small-business employees and the self-employed. That’s one reason so many voters rank health care reform as a pressing concern facing policymakers this election year. Neither presumptive presidential candidate has a deep understanding […]

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The following is an editorial point of view offered by one of our most experienced writers, Bill Willard, as part of our “Issue of the Week” series. Below is Bill’s opinion on a hot topic of interest to many of us. What’s your opinion? Please share it with us. Two cautions: […]

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This is one politically hot election year.  Everyone has opinions.  People have even gotten into fisticuffs over their fav candidate. 
 As an SBO, what do you think?  Can you afford to have an opinion or should no one know how you will vote or why?  I say zip the pie hole, unless you know that your market […]

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In case you’ve been on another planet, there is a hot ‘n heavy horse race of an election battle heating up this year. As a business owner, you probably have your own views on who is the best (or least worst) candidate.
I operate under the assumption that politics and business do not mix. […]

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