All Entries in the "Business Tips" Category
The Hairs Breadth of Excellence
Some of the fears associated with leaving kollel is the fear of being unsuccessful in your chosen career path. Sure, there are plenty of business success stories out there, but the pessimist in you doesn’t associate those success stories with something that you could be capable of being.
If others could do it, why couldn’t you [...]
Help Others Without Giving Money
This week, 2 incidents proved to me how helping poeple can be easily achieved without costing you a penny.
A friend of mine who is going through a “career change”, is looking to get involved in a business that provides services to very specific kinds of businesses. Because the program is only of use to very [...]
If Everything is Made in China…
…Then how do we make our money?
Everything is made in China. From cars to chairs, computers to pianos. Boats arrive to our docks full of pallets of merchandise, and return to China empty. If everything is being made by the Chinese people, where do we make our money from?
The US economy is powered not by [...]
Defining a Business from the Outset
When you start out in business, it can be very tempting to just take any work that comes your way. All those who have started out without a security cushion (read: rich parents to fall back on) know the feeling of wondering if there will be enough money for food this month.
When a job comes [...]
Day # 8 (and beyond): Back to Routine?
Every year it seems that we go through the same routine. Cry our heads off during viduy, promise to do better, and then life comes back to routine. Is there any meaning to all of it, if on Tuesday morning we all go back to our old selves?
The truth is that there is hardly such [...]
Day # 6 – Your Relationship with Money
Leaving kollel is all about taking control of your own finances, and so you will be focusing more attention on your finances. Before you get in “over your head” it important to make sure you control your attitudes towards money so that it doesn’t gain control over you.
The Chafetz Chaim pointed out how in Ne’eilah [...]
Watching the Money You Make
Being successful at business requires not just the knowledge of how to make money, but also how not to lose it. There are countless opportunities at making money, and there are ten times more ways to easily lose your money to scams, pranks, and just plain stupidity.
Did you ever receive the following email from a [...]
Succeeding in Business: Who You’re Really Up Against
The biggest obstacle faced by those wishing to go into business, is fear of failure. One may think, “If its such a good way to make money, why wasn’t this tried before?”
Who is your competition? What exactly are you up against?
The average American household spends 8 hours and 18 minutes a day watching TV!!! That [...]
Business Lessons from 3 Roshei Yeshiva
What do Rabbi Avrohom Ausband, R”Y of Telz Alumni D’Riverdale, Rabbi Eli Sorotzkin, R”Y of North Plainfield (Springfield), and Rabbi Elya Chaim Swerdloff, R”Y of Paterson NJ have in common?
They all have successful yeshivos, they are all tremendous talmidei chachomim, and they are all sons in law and (except for R’ Swerdloff) sons of Roshei [...]
Israeli Kollel Wives Powering Frum Businesses
For years now, U.S. businesses have been outsourcing many of their job overseas, to places like India. The benefit for the company is huge cost savings on labor, while the workers overseas benefit from having a (relatively) well paying job that otherwise wouldn’t be there.
However, there is a huge downside of employing overseas workers, especially [...]
