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  • Boy, What Were You Thinking?
    When I was a kid there were five words I heard more than all others combined. Usually coming from my father, they were, "Boy, what were you thinking?"
  • Be Careful What You Wish For
    Well, my friends, like the Terminator, politicians named Clinton, the ghosts from the movie Poltergeist, and that corn on the side of your big toe: I’m back. There are just some things that won’t go away. Sorry.
  • We Don’t Need No Stinking Permits
    Unless you’re renting simple office space odds are you will need to make some modifications to the space, be it adding walls, flooring, paint, electrical, plumbing, or any combination thereof.
  • Time To Sign A Lease; Get Your First Born Ready
    We’ve been discussing the steps required to open a brick and mortar store. We’ve talked about startup plans and finding a location. This week we look at what comes next in the process: the negotiation and signing of one of the most dreaded legal document any entrepreneur will ever face: the commercial lease (insert scary music here).
  • It’s Not All About Location, Location, Location
    Last time we met I brought you the tale of how I scouted for and eventually found what I considered to be the best retail location for my new retail gunshop in my hometown of Madison.
  • Learn To Avoid Ugly Baby Syndrome
    Last week we talked about creating a "Startup Plan" for your new business idea. To catch you up, a Startup Plan is a detailed list of tasks and subtasks that must be completed in order to get you from the initial idea stage to opening day and beyond.
  • Do Your Homework To Find The Best Location For Your Business
    This week our discussion on starting a brick and mortar business continues. We’ve already talked about creating a Startup Plan to manage the process and conducting market research to gauge the viability of your idea. If you missed those entries visit TimKnox.com and click the "Columns" tab.
  • Never Dive Into Business Without A Startup Plan
    This week begins the tale of my recent foray into the world of brick and mortar and the startup the lessons learned there from.
  • Don’t Let Stress Run You Out Of Business
    Stress is business is a common phenomenon and every entrepreneur must know how to handle it and grow with it.
  • How To Really Get The Competitive Advantage Over Your Competition
    One of the hot catchphrases being bounced around a lot in business these days is “competitive advantage.”One of the cool things about being an entrepreneur and business author and speaker is that I get to use all kinds of big words and phrases that make me sound much smarter than I am.
  • What Would You Do With A Second Chance?
    You could avoid the mistakes you previously made and build on the successes you previously enjoyed. You could nurture the positive relationships and avoid the bad. You could tap into your wealth of experience during times of indecision and always know where and when your time and money would be best spent.
  • Like Books, Entrepreneurs Are Always Judged By Their Covers
    Enterpreneurship requires not just hard work and knowledge of business but also a number of other things that are many times not considered too important. Grooming yourself to look good is just one of these things that enterpreneurs need to focus on.
  • Entrepreneurs, Learn This Lesson: Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff
    Many enterpreneurs crubmle under the weight of pressure everyday business. Here are some great tips to tackle such pressures and focus on your business growth.
  • Is Business Ownership In Your Future?
    Anyone who wishes to start a business must first do a lot of self assessment and planning otherwise the business venture may flounder easily.
  • How Do You Keep Your Best Employees From Flying The Coup?
    There is not lack of jobs for good talent today and the best way to keep your best employees around is to provide them with incentives to stay on. The end result is ofcourse the continued growth of your business.
  • Never Say It Can’t Be Done
    In business one must never say or assume that something can't be done. With a little help from ingenuity and creativity any problem can be easily solved.
  • Use Email Marketing To Keep Customers Buzzing About Your Business
    Email marketing can be used as an effective tool for communicating with customers. Its is an effective medium of communication to boost sales by ensuring that your customers constantly remember you.
  • What’s Stopping You From Starting Your Own Small Business?
    Some people simply don't have what it takes to start your own business. Others just need a bit of kicking to jumpstart them.
  • Learn To Focus On What’s Important and Farm Out The Rest
    Outsourcing your mundane tasks to focus only on the essential tasks is the best way to organize your business. The results are great not just for you but also for your business.
  • Women Are From Where?
    A remote control in the hands of a woman is a dangerous thing, especially when it's her man she's trying to change.
  • Who Cracked My Crystal Ball?
    Predictons for the new year as foretold over a beer and Polish sausage sandwich
  • When Great Minds Meet
    When the richest man in America meets the world's greatest Elvis impersonator, you know only good things could come of it. Could 'Don't Be Cruel' really become Microsoft's new theme song?
  • What's My Mama Gonna Say?
    I know you're going to find this hard to believe, but I, Tim Knox, am a sexist pig. Sorry, mama. I had no idea.
  • Thingamabobs And Whatchamadigits
    My daughter cornered me the other night, wanting to know about the birds and bees. Actually, she wanted to know what "sectional misconduct" was.
  • The Unsinkable Tim Knox
    I call them 'Ti-taniacs.' They look perfectly normal at first, but eventually they will ask, 'Have you seen 'Titanic' yet? That's when their dimentia rolls to the surface and the all-out assault begins
  • The Tax Man Cometh
    Someone once said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes I think the only difference between the two is that death claims you just once, but taxes can kill you every year.
  • The Tanya Factor
    Is it me or are the '98 Winter Olympics about as exciting as watching old people speedwalk at the mall? What's missing this year? Could be The Tanya Factor
  • The Smarter White Meat
    A college professor at Penn State is trying to teach pigs to communicate using computers. I think this guy is one pork rind short of a full bag. Who wants to get email from a pig?
  • The Sky Is Falling
    When you turn on the TV and learn that a giant, killer asteroid is headed your way, you have to ask yourself certain questions. Like, should I have that second bowl of Crispy Hexagons or just stop at one?
  • The Religion Of Football
    Here in Alabama, there are three kinds of people: Crimson Tide fans, War Eagle fans, and atheists.
  • The Real McCaugheys
    What's it take to raise seven babies? Love, patience, understanding, and Prozac, lots and lots of Prozac.
  • The New Fab Four
    They sing, they dance, they drive the kids wild. But how best to describe the Teletubbies to the uninitiated? Imagine this: if Pink Floyd produced a half-hour show for kids, this would be it. And you would enjoy it immensely.
  • The Intelligent Diaper
    I believe it was Frank Zappa who said, "Necessity is the mother of invention," which means that if there is a need for something, sooner or later, someone will invent it. And then Microsoft will rip it off.
  • The Four Letters Between PG & R
    When you're a kid, there are certain words you dare not say. Swear words, my mother called them, cuss words. Today, my kids call them "daddy words." You can probably figure out why.
  • The Dust Settles On Miss America
    The Miss America Pageant is taking its last breath. Will the mourners have to wear swimsuits to the funeral, or will evening gowns be enough?
  • Staying Alive
    If someone offered you a pill that would add 50 years to your life, would you take it? Not me. At least not until I found out who'd be footing the bill for all that extra life.
  • St. Viagra's Dance
    The impotency drug Viagra has every old person I know talking about having sex again. All I have to say is, 'Folks, please, not in front of the children!
  • Sometimes Life Just Ain't Funny
    Alabama weather is about as predictable as watching The Jerry Springer Show. You know something's going to happen, you're just not sure what it will be.
  • Some People Will Eat Anything
    Most people are like Mikey, the old Life cereal kid. We are nondiscriminating carnivores who will eat anything -- especially if it can be made to taste like chicken
  • Some Guys Have All The Luck
    Recent studies claim that the less educated you are, the more sex you have, and the more sex you have, the longer you'll live. Sure gives new meaning to "Live long and prosper!"
  • Smoke 'em If You Can Afford 'em
    What's the difference between a $30 cigar and one that costs fifty cents. The answer begins with cow poop.
  • Show Me The Money
    The stock market could crash like a circus fat lady falling over a lawn chair and it wouldn't affect me in the least. All my money's tied up in bills; electric bill, phone bill, Visa bill etc.
  • Pick On Somebody Your Own Size
    Mattel's redesigning Barbie to make her more realistic. Imagine Christy Brinkley going in, David Brinkley.
  • No Sale Like A Yardsale
    Remember, it's not how much you spend at a yardsale, but how much you talk them down
  • If You Clone A Schizophrenic
    Scientists have successfully cloned a sheep and a cow. What's next? Dogs? Cats? Professional wrestlers? Me? And if you clone a schizophrenic, how many people do you get?
  • I Was Rooting For
    Who was I rooting for in the Iron Bowl? Sorry, if I tell you, I'll have to kill you
  • I Love You, You Love Me
    Barney The Dinosaur is suing The Famous San Diego Chicken for beating up a Barney lookalike during his act. Sounds like a clear case of costume envy to me.
  • I Hope You Kept The Receipt
    Will it be something from Victoria's Secret or another beefstick this year?
  • Honey, Did You Take Your Pill?
    A birth control pill for men? As if remembering to take out the trash isn't enough pressure.
  • Growing Old In A Red Miata
    I just had another birthday and I'm not particularly happy about it. To me, that's like saying, "I'm another year closer to having my prostate removed! Somebody bake me a cake and let's party!"

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