Archive for March, 2010

Hey, will you help me with a project? I want to write more about how small business entrepreneurs succeed. So tell me: what’s the ONE thing about your business that enables you to make it. Perhaps it’s the unique niche you fill. Maybe it’s your way of keeping costs really low. Or charging very high prices. Tell me your ONE thing so I can share it with others. Email me at entrepreneurs.guide(at)about.com and be sure to put MY ONE THING in the subject line.

I was five minutes early for the train into Manhattan this morning so I crossed the street to stop into the deli. The place has changed owners over the years. First it was the Pot Belly Deli, then Brooklyn Paul’s Deli, now it’s Patti’s Deli.

Patti greeted me warmly, “Hi, young man.” I like her already! I asked for a whole wheat bagel, and she dug around the big bag of bagels delivered earlier in the morning. “We always get one whole wheat.” Read more