Nerissa Golden's Blog, page 27

IS Your Business Growing Too Quickly?

Growth in your business is a very good thing. However, it is possible to grow too quickly. This can cause you to lose your ability to serve your customers well, which puts your business at risk as they turn to someone else who can meet their needs more efficiently. Often entrepreneurs end up in that […]

Finding New Revenue Streams

My motto has always been “I will speak to an audience of one” so I was very excited when these four entrepreneurs joined me for the final session of BOOST last Saturday morning. We got down to work on the business model canvas which helped them get clear on where they needed to focus and […]

In Today’s Antigua Observer

Wednesday morning’s radio interview on Observer Radio is a featured story in Thursday’s paper. The discussion centred around the use of cell phones by employees in the workplace. My position is that it’s not necessarily a bad thing but one that needs to be managed. Take a read and let me know your views on […]

Open Innovation – Can We Do This in the Caribbean?

All but one of the presenters on the study tour used this term in their presentation. What is open innovation? Why was Eindhoven and all of these incubators championing this? As we walked through the High Tech Campus Eindhoven all of the doors were open. It had been the same at the other incubators and […]

On A Study Tour of Business Incubators in Eindhoven, Holland

From the moment I learned about the Incubator Study Tour to Eindhoven in The Netherlands I knew I wanted to be on it. It took some wrangling but you know what happens when you tell the Lordwhat you want and then trust it will come to pass. It does! Why did I want to come […]

You’re Worth Fighting For

For weeks now I’ve been playing this song almost daily. You’re worth fighting for. I need for you to know that today. I don’t care how you feel about the situation. What they’ve told you the outcome can be doesn’t mean it will be the reality. Do not give up on yourself. You are worth […]

First Things First

Sometimes I get busy and crazy looking for the next big thing, the right thing, the wrong thing. As I work in social media for clients I’m often researching trends and what is happening but it can easily become an obsession or a distraction. We can get so busy following trends, trying to copy what […]

Register for BOOST 2016 Montserrat

Reserve your spot today for BOOST, a three-day event for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs on Montserrat. In collaboration with the St. Patrick’s Cooperative Credit Union, business coach and editor Discover Montserrat Nerissa Golden, will host the event designed to encourage business owners and provide strategies for growth. “I am very grateful to Peter Queeley […]

How Arrow, the Soca King’s Death Changed Social Media for Me

I’d seen him on a few occasions since returning to live on Montserrat in 2009. His store was a necessity for any mother hoping to stretch dollars to take care of growing children at the start of a new school year. In late January of 2010 we bumped into each other as he waited by […]

It’s Time to Buddy Up

I finally accept that I need to work smarter and not necessarily harder. Harder if it means pushing through that barrier that seems not to want to move out of my way but definitely smarter in that I now know I don’t have to do it alone. As women, we seem not to want to […]