How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
—Coco Chanel

Bylined Articles

Alkamae's Founder, Dr. Susan L. Reid, writes as a small business expert for:

• 3 Questions Every New Business Owner Must Answer
  
  
• 5 Old-school Rules You Can Break When Starting Up
  
  
• 5 Steps To Determine Your Unique Selling Point
  
  
• 5 Tips Today's Entrepreneurs Can Learn from J. K. Rowling
  
  
• 7 Habits That Made Steve Jobs A Success
  
  
• 7 Things Every Greenhorn Needs to Know Before Starting a Business
  
  
• 10 Helpful Inner Practices For The Transitioning Soul
  
  
• 10 Pieces of Advice from Dancing with the Stars for Budding Entrepreneurs
  
  
• 10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Online Business Money
  
  
• 12 Ways to Make Your Business Merry This December
  
  
• A Simple Way to Manage Your Time
  
  
• Are Your Emotions Helping Or Hindering You?
  
  
• Begin Your Economic Recovery. Lower Your Prices Now!
  
  
• Business Coaches: How to Deal with an Ex Who Refuses to Leave
  
  
• Cultivating the Millionaire Mindset Using the Law of Attraction
  
  
• Entrepreneurs to the Rescue
  
  
• Excelling as a Woman Entrepreneur
  
  
• Financially Preparing Small Business Owners for 2010
  
  
• Five Keys to Sales When You Hate to Sell
  
  
• Freelancer, Consultant, Entrepreneur: Which Are You?
  
  
• Guilt-free Summer Reading List for Busy Entrepreneurs
  
  
• How is the Economy Looking for Women Starting Up Businesses?
  
  
• How Many of You Became Entrepreneurs Accidently?
  
  
• How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
  
  
• How to Clear Out the Old to Make Way for the New!
  
  
• How to Define Your Niche for Your New Business
  
  
• How to Mindfully Deal with and Extinguish Business Fires
  
  
• How to Restore Balance in Your Life
  
  
• How to Utilize the Powerful Law of Attraction to Achieve Balance in Your Life
  
  
• No Guts, No Glory - Three Hard Things to Do to Succeed in Business
  
  
• The Olympics for Small Business Owners
  
  
• One Fun Way to Avoid Becoming a Small Business Startup Fatality
  
  
• Post-Recession Success: 7 Actions for Small Business Owners to Take Now
  
  
• Put Your Marketing Real Estate Agent to Work For You
  
  
• Six Weeks or Less to Double Your Productivity in Tough Economic Times
  
  
• Small Business in America: 10 Years after 9/11
  
  
• Stay Within 2 Degrees of Separation When Starting a Business
  
  
• The Super Bowl for Small Business Owners
  
  
• Take Control of Your Money: Become a Freelancer
  
  
• Ten Steps to Successful Online Book Marketing
  
  
• To Lay Off or Not to Lay Off? That Isn't the Question.
  
  
• Too Old to Start Up a Business?
  
  
• Top 10 Resolutions for a More Productive 2009
  
  
• Top 10 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Boost Productivity
  
  
• Turning Your Business Dreams Into Reality: Managing The Critic
  
  
• Your Home Office: 5 Ways to Be Penny-Wise, Not Pound-Foolish
  
  
• What Women Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Elizabeth Gilbert
  
  
• Women Business Owners: Start Your Engines!
  
  
• Why Hire Employees When You Can Build a Team?
  
  
• Why Positive Affirmations Can Be a Business Liability