TreyMarkel

Small business owners rely heavily on access to capital to operate and grow their business. When that access to capital is threatened, small business owners cannot do what they need to do to successfully run their business. At the same time, other businesses and government agencies also lose out when small businesses do not have [...]

For the last several weeks we have been hearing about the immigration issues down in Arizona.  Mexican citizens are illegally crossing the United States boarders and establishing lives as illegal aliens. What is to be done about this issue?  What should the American government do to handle all the Mexican citizens crossing into American soil? [...]

Business credit is one of those long lost business operational assets that has seemed to drift away from the small business community the last 10 years.  With the sub-prime market the way it was, small business owners didn’t need to have clean books, proper financials or even a business plan to be approved for a small business [...]

When I left for college my parents gave me a handful of money to pay off my tuition and for general expenses.   Instead of paying off my college tuition and paying the bills, I decided to buy a house.  I told myself, if the market grows in four years while I am in college, [...]

One of the biggest mistakes that I see small business owners and entrepreneurs make is spending way too much time, money, and effort to develop a website or some kind of brochure-ware before they decide to go out and try to start generating revenue.  These entrepreneurs some how are lead to believe that everything needs to be perfect [...]

I was having lunch with my aunt the other day and she was telling me how she can’t figure out why she fails to grab the attention of teenagers when it comes to their faith.  She is a youth minister in Chicago.  I asked her what some of the the topics she was talking about [...]

Any sales person knows how tough it is to get to an executive for a certain company on a cold call.  In order to get any business done with a sought after potential partner, you need to get to the correct person that can execute your vision.  The current way of seeking this individual out is cold calling [...]

The entrepreneeurial mindset is one of great strenght but also one of geat weakness.  On one end of the double edged sword you have brilliant bleeding egde ideas and a vison that is bigger then life.  On the other side of the sword you have a very sharp weakness of trying to accomplish everything under [...]

I find it interesting the different kind of people that use Twitter and the reason why they use Twitter. I have a friend who talks to his girl friend 24/7 and they both canceled their textmessage plans on their cell phones because now they communicate 100% via Twitter. I have a fellow business owner that [...]

When I was growing up my parents always wanted me working. They were smart because it probably kept me out of trouble. As long as I can remember, I have always had a job. From mowing the lawn for Dad on the weekends to going door to door to promote a local companies pizza restaurant, [...]