Gresham Harkless' Business Blog
When I'm at networking events and I hear myself speaking with entrepreneurs and business owners, it always seems like this questions come up. It never fails especially when I hear the struggles that some business owners have and I think automatically about the E-Myth. Here's some takeaways: 80% of businesses fail within the first 5 years ...
It's a new year and while we are launching our new membership site--B16.co--to help you become a better entrepreneur and business owner. The single best decision I made last year was for our team to use Basecamp as our project management tool. So what is Basecamp? Simply defined, Basecamp is a project management tool that helps to ...
A few months ago during my Leadership Young Professionals Circle Meeting one of my friends said that they used to compose messages during the night before and save them as a draft. This way they wouldn't send e-mail messages late at night. Initially, I thought that was a good idea but completely forgot about a e-mail ...
"What do you use for..." This is the start of a lot of questions that I have heard more and more often. I think it's something that we all hear as entrepreneurs and business owners especially when we are networking. Because often we are hustling and running around, we don't get a chance or have enough ...
Last night, I had the pleasure to present at the Metro DC Chapter Association for Talent Development speaking about how entrepreneurs and business owners can build and create their own media companies and delivering content for their target markets. Below is the presentation. [embeddoc url="https://progreshion.ceoblognation.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2017/11/Blue16Media_Media_Company_FreeAgents-1.pdf" download="none"] Listen to the podcast episode. Here's some additional things and topics that we ...
I was asked about SSL a lot from clients, so I decided to write this blog post that provides a quick breakdown of what it is and whether or not it is of importance to your website. First here's the technical definition from Symantec: SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and, in short, it's the standard technology ...
I will be giving a presentation to members of a networking group that I am a member of. I will put together some videos to show how I make updates to my Chapter's Facebook Group and Meetup group. Here's some notes that I gave: Presentation-Communication-Chair
A week ago, I taught a class to a group of real estate agents and I mentioned during the class that everyone thinks that whatever they are building or creating is great, but they key is to make sure the potential client or customer thinks it's great too. It's such a missing piece that few take ...
A few weeks ago, I had a 1-2-1 with someone who works for a media company that was similar to Patch. During the 1-2-1, we talked a lot about media and journalism and where I thought it was going. I told him that I had worked as a freelance writer initially at Patch and then ...
My name is Gresham and this is my business blog. I’m an entrepreneur and blogger. I am the Blogger in Chief for CEO Blog Nation and a media consultant for Blue 16 Media. I hope you enjoy this blog. Contact me to set up a time to speak or let’s meet for coffee (even though I rarely drink it).
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