reading list for your busy week

Reading List for Your Busy Week

By Rieva Lesonsky

The life of a business owner is a busy one. If I had my way, days would be 30 hours long—and there’d be, like the Beatles sang: “8 days a week.” But there aren’t. So to help you stay on top of important small business news, information and advice essential to running your business, here’s my weekly Reading List.

If you have articles you’d like to share, get them to me by end of day Wednesday every week.

Best Practices

  • Urgent issue: is your domain privacy at stake?
  • Keeping your company data private
  • Building a global-friendly website
  • 9 ways to use summer downtime to grow your business
  • How to recover when growth comes too quickly
  • How to fire a customer or client
  • The importance of improving your internal customer service: Did you even know this existed?
  • This week’s 3 books for small business owners: The best of Peter Drucker, learn to strategize and how to be an authentic leader

 

Inspiring!

  • How technology helped this food entrepreneur
  • From Wall Street to ice tea entrepreneur

 

Marketing Smart

  • How to market to dads today

 

Money Matters

  • Millennials & payment technology: What it all means

 

People Power

  • Using benefits to motivate your team
  • Not everyone on your team is a superstar. But you need to treat them well anyway

 

Productivity

  • 5 top productivity killers
  • Exercise can boost productivity

 

Start Smart

  • The best cities for startup

Tech

  • How the cloud changed my life & small business

 

Women Entrepreneurs

  • The long road to success for women entrepreneurs
  • 25 travel safety tips for women entrepreneurs