Tag: bill reagan
The Business Plan with Bill Regan: Great expectations
Our region is humming. You can’t walk or ride down a street without noticing cranes and dodging construction crews. These are, for better or...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Alexandria’s small business resource for...
As the Alexandria Small Business Development Center enters its 24th year of serving the community’s small businesses, it’s perhaps a good time to describe...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Seek advice and ask questions
One of the common characteristics of highly successful business owners is their tendency to ask really good questions – and lots of them. Even...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Celebrating fall and the holiday...
While some grouse about the end of summer, many of us look forward to fall and the approaching holiday season, and feel they showcase...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Finding your passion
Relatively few adults approach their career choices methodically. Too often we pursue job titles, mimic a friend’s or relative’s career path or, in the...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Time wasters
Our lives are congested under the best of circumstances. We’re constantly stressed to accomplish what’s on our plates. The last things we need are...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Erroneous zones
Who among us hasn’t spent sleepless nights or agitated days stewing over something someone said, or something you inferred, that you realize later you...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Celebrating small businesses
The week of May 6 is being celebrated across the country as Small Business Week, highlighting the importance of small businesses to the U.S....
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: Strengthen banking ties before Metro...
Savvy business owners are planning now for potential effects from the shutdown of all Alexandria Metro stations this summer. There are many considerations, including...
The Business Plan with Bill Reagan: A tale of two shutdowns
Alexandrians are responding to the impacts of two shutdowns – one haphazard and unnecessary no matter your politics, and the other, that’s both anticipated...
