Hi, I’m Bill Erichson
and welcome to my blog. It’s all about
small business, especially trying to succeed in starting, growing and surviving
in your business. I base my writings on
my years of experience as a business trainer, consultant and general observer
in the small business scene.
As time goes on, and
if I don’t get bored, you I will post up several of ‘Billy’s Laws of
Business’. For the incredibly naïve of
you, these are neither statutory laws nor laws of nature. They came as a result of a little
presentation tip I use in business seminars.
If I want to illustrate an important point… or at least a point I think
is important, then I say “As Billy’s Law clearly states…” It was really just a way of drawing peoples’
attention back to the seminar. One day,
somebody asked me if I had written them down anywhere. That gave rise to my ‘laws of businesses’ and
to this blog.
Please don’t take these
laws too seriously. In fact, my
experience shows that for every rule, there are exceptions and that business
rarely black and white, but rather found in shades of grey…at least fifty of
them. (If you are not a bit of a smart
ass…you may not like what you read.)
Please don’t expect an
academic treatise or proper footnotes.
If there are fewer than five spelling mistakes per post it will be a
miracle…and that’s with a spell check. I
will make general references to the myriad of material I have stolen through
the years and even make the occasional book recommendations, but the homework
is not mandatory.
In case you haven’t
noticed, I am a bit of a smart ass.
Although I don’t take myself too seriously, I take your businesses
seriously. I want all of you (all-ya’ll
as they say in Georgia) to succeed. The
real reason for this blog, and for my laws of business is to get people to
think. Thinking is dangerous as thinking
leads to ideas which lead to change which lead to progress. But we live in a world of change, and these
changes lead to challenges. As small
business owners, must stay sharp and thinking.
So here is a quote to get you thinking until I post up the first law…the
Myth of Self-Employment. I heard if on a
BBC Podcast.
Big Businesses survive change
with their size…Small Businesses survive change with their strength.
Be strong.
No comments:
Post a Comment