Business Blog – Nita Black

Have an idea for an Opportunity Zone (OZ) project?

Hi, Have an idea for an Opportunity Zone project? Opportunity Zones were created under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Public Law No. 115-97). Thousands of low-income communities in all 50...

Are you afraid to find out what you don’t know?

Are you afraid to find out what you don’t know? Creating and growing a business is hard and it’s even more difficult without having a good working knowledge of your financials. Many business owners...

Stuck On an Eight Lane Highway

Are you a business owner with lots of ideas but your head is spinning? Do you feel like you’re stuck in the middle of an eight-lane freeway? This is stressful and absorbs a lot of energy, time, and...

Are you running your business without a written business plan?

Napoleon Hill quote: “Plan your work. Work your plan.” Without a plan you are travelling on a journey with no road signs. Compare these 3 ways to get a plan organized so that you can do what you...

How to Pivot During a Pandemic: Will Drone Technology Work for You?

by Nita Black | Aug 20, 2021 | Budgeting, Business, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship

Co-written by Nita Black and Paula Milner Often business owners start out with an idea that quickly turns into sales. But then something like Covid-19 hits and the way you have been doing business doesn’t work anymore. Knowing how to pivot using new strategies or...

5 TIPS ON HOW MATURE WOMEN CAN CLOSE OUT THE YEAR WITH A SMILE

by Nita Black | Jun 25, 2021 | Business

As seen on SixtyandMe.com Let me guess: You are a woman over 55, getting busy with holiday preparations, traveling plans, and family gatherings with children and grandchildren. Maybe you have your business matters to wrap up and touch base with friends. Or maybe, for...

Choosing An Exit Strategy

by Nita Black | Jun 18, 2021 | Budgeting, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

5 Tips on Marketing to Boomer Women

by Nita Black | Jun 5, 2021 | Baby Boomer Women, Baby Boomers

7+ Facts About Baby-Boomer Women

by Nita Black | May 26, 2021 | Baby Boomer Women, Baby Boomers, Budgeting, Business Planning, Clarifying Your Dreams, Leadership, Teamwork

First Down?

by Nita Black | May 12, 2021 | Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Making More Money, Operations, Teamwork

“Can you imagine a football game where they don’t keep score? That’s what most businesses are,” Chuck Richards, CEO of CoreValue Software says. Running a business can be like playing a game with no scoreboard. Marcus DiNitto, the Contributing Writer for an article...

Starting with Sales – FAQs for Startups

by Nita Black | May 1, 2021 | Budgeting, Business Planning, Clarifying Your Dreams, Entrepreneurship, Making More Money, Sales

“Learn how to sell. It’s the best investment you will ever make. Mark Cuban says so.” This is a quote from Jeff Haden’s article at Inc.com (August 2017) – enjoy the short video interview of Mark Cuban, billionaire investor, NBA team owner. You need an angle – email...

Are You a Steel Magnolia?

by Nita Black | Apr 27, 2021 | Business Planning, Clarifying Your Dreams, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Making More Money

Creating a Top-Down Plan That Sticks

by Nita Black | Apr 17, 2021 | Business Planning

Imagine building this bridge with no pics and no plan. No research, no second opinions. This is what we mean by Top-Down – starting from “what it looks like” to adding in all the details, to adjusting with improvements that make it better. In this blog we use the...

Visualizing Your Dream

by Nita Black | Apr 6, 2021 | Clarifying Your Dreams, Entrepreneurship

I love posting things on the wall to organize my work day. What about you? What about birthday stickers and different emoji posts on Facebook and in texts? But when it comes to visualizing my dream business, what I want when I grow up, I can get stuck. All words...

Making the Second Million

by Nita Black | Apr 1, 2021 | Making More Money

In looking back and planning ahead, I realized that in the year 2000, I had a million dollar estate. This included about $250k in real estate, $250K in IRAs, and about $500K in stocks, bonds, and money market account. This helped me get comfortable with leaving a...

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