The first thing most aspiring entrepreneurs do to move their great idea forward is create a business plan. This is a critical and important step, but if you create it without first considering what kind of life you want to live, you may find yourself disillusioned with your business success. So before you create a [...]
After people sign up for my ezine, I like to follow up with an email that asks them the biggest question that they have about starting their own business. I get hundreds of responses, and one of the most popular ones is “How do I market my business?” There are many components of setting up [...]
The first time you get tough feedback as a new entrepreneur, it can really kick you in the gut. Most of us learn to accept feedback reasonably well working for a big company. If you are a salesperson and someone hates your product, it may not feel great, but you probably won’t lose sleep over [...]
Today has been a good day. Thanks to a nice plug in Guy Kawasaki’s blog, I have gotten all kinds of new visitors and supportive comments on my recent post. It made me realize that at this moment I am getting closer to what I once heard Jim Collins refer to as the sweet spot. [...]
It felt good to share my thoughts the other day on what I really wanted to say to CEOs, COOs, CIOs and CFOs across the corporate world. In this “Eleventh Hour” of our world filled with scary things like war, terrorism, genocide and corruption, I don’t want to silence my true voice anymore. I want [...]
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