This week’s TSB Weekly Roundup has a few good startup stories, a great article about micro-entrepreneurship, and a piece on 5 sales myths that people just really need to get over. Oh yeah, don’t miss the article by Richard Branson about ties and suits.

Customer Service

• Customer Service: How to Handle Pushy Customers – In many circumstances, the customer isn’t always right. Here is how to strike a balance between what is good for your business and what is good for your customers.

General

• 10 Tips for Working for Yourself – Without Working Yourself to Death – Freelancing is an attractive option these days, especially for those who have been laid off. Here are 10 tips to make sure that those choosing the freelance route aren’t working themselves to death.
• 7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice) – Nobody is born perfect, and that is especially true in the world of small business owners. The key is to learn from your prior mistakes, and to not make a habit of repeating them.
• 6 Steps to Squeeze Success Out of a Failure – Every company is bound to have failures. What separates the good companies from the great ones is the ability to make failures a learning event and not wallow in the misery of failure.
• Surprising Secret to Time Management – Many of us complain that there are just not enough hours in a day. Here are some ways to better manage your time to ensure you have some extra to play with.
• The Rise Of The Micro-Entrepreneurship – Being an entrepreneur doesn’t necessarily mean quitting your day job and starting your own full-time small business. Many opportunities exist today to become a micro-entrepreneur.
• 6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them – Learn about different leadership styles that managers/business owners have.
• Richard Branson on Office Ties and the Company Dress Code – The man himself on suits, ties, and other business thingys.
• 9 Business Clichés to Retire Forever – These overused words and phrases need to be banished from every language. Die clichés, die!
• Good Luck in Business is Hard Work – The co-founders of Get Satisfaction talk about why good luck is not easy to come by for a small business.

Sales

• 5 Sales Myths to Get Over Now – There are many, many myths in the business world, including these five related to the sales process.
• Proposals That Win Business: 5 Rules – How to write a winning sales proposal.

Startups

• Why Every Startup Founder Needs a Mentor – And How to Find One – While many entrepreneurs and entrepreneur wannabes are loners by nature, taking the solo route may not be the wisest choice. Find a mentor who will be a fountain of knowledge to guide you through your small business journeys.
• 3 Essential Actions for the New Entrepreneur – Three steps every entrepreneur should take if they want to be successful.
• An Outsourcing Guide for Startups – The possibility of having to get help outside of your company, especially when starting up, is great. Here is how to do it right.
• Should Your Startup Start Overseas? – By utilizing technology, an entrepreneur can literally work from anywhere. Why not consider starting your company overseas?
• 9 Most Important Elements of Every Start-up – While having entrepreneurial vision is a wonderful thing, if your startup doesn’t have these nine important elements, then it might not have much chance at success.
• Starting Up? 6 Questions to Tackle First – Any small business owner has to answer some tough questions before turning the ‘open for business’ sign on. Here are six such questions that need to be answered before getting your first customer.
• 3 Startup Secrets From A Serial Entrepreneur – Whenever you have the chance to learn from someone who seems to have figured out this whole entrepreneurial thing, take it! Here is one such time.