Greetings

 

Welcome to my Blog and its first post. I hope you will visit often and find a lot of information that will help your business.

 

After 30 years in business and an additional 26 years teaching business at the college level, I do believe I've been "Around the block a few times."

 

I believe every Business instructor should work in private business before stepping in front of a classroom with a textbook under their arm. Don't misunderstand me, textbooks are an absolutely necessity to teaching business. However, they don't guide you when a customer calls on a Friday night and says his system he bought from you last year "went out to lunch," (i.e., crashed). Or, a delivery to a customer gets lost.

 

Sometimes the full-page advertisement for a local grocery store hits the streets loaded with errors. Or how about when a competitor appears overnight and undercuts your prices drastically and you lose customers?

 

These and a list of hundreds of solutions to these problems are not fully addressed in a textbook. I have found that the combination of working as a business owner and teaching college level business classes provided me with both the academic and the real world of business and with that experience I hope to help small businesses that are fighting these battles everyday.

 

I am new to Blogging and hope to get your "Comments/Questions" etc. I welcome suggested topics you would like me to address....hopefully I can help. My email address is:
smallbusinfo.vpt@gmail.com 























About Vince

 

 
Introduction
 

           What I learned as a Business Owner

You learn real fast as a business owner that you're the first one to arrive at work, the last one to leave and the last one to get paid!...... But it was worth it because I learned and earned a lot.

     I was fortunate to have three very interesting careers. After graduation I worked as a Test Engineer conducting tests on rocket engines, torpedoes, hovercraft, and more.

    When my company wanted to move me back to California my family and I made a decision to stay in Washington State at our lakeside home. I then made a unusual career move and bought and ran a failing community newspaper. The turn-around was so successful I started two more and sold them 11 years later to a newspaper chain.

     I was offered a job teaching Business at our local Community College. I accepted because retirement was boring. Twenty-five years later I am still there.
I started offering Business Consulting services while still teaching.

My Consulting work combines 30 years of business ownership and college Business Instructor 

 

For questions please email: smallbusinfo.vpt@gmail.com