3/13/2005

Ten Entrepreneurial Tips from Debby House

From the second installment of re:invention blog's 10 Tips for 10 Million WomenTM Saturday Feature, spotlighting woman entrepreneur, Debby House, Founder and CEO of The Adare Group (Chicago, IL), a strategy and profitability consulting firm comes these ten tips:

1. Solve your customer's critical problems...
2. Be externally focused...
3. Make quick, tough decisions...
4. Measure actions that generate profits...
5. Don't let the stock market run your company...
6. Innovate, Invest and Inquire
- Innovate: Creativity is cheaper in the long run than conformity
- Invest: It is risky but it generates long term profits
- Inquire: Curiosity produces innovation and reduces risk
7. Highly value customized products and services...
8. Only real profits pay the bills...
9. Don't let processes get in the way of profits...
10. Everyone must produce profits..."