All aspiring entrepreneurs have fears about starting a business. These fears pack tremendous emotional punch and can stop you in your tracks if you aren’t careful. Listen to my 7 minute podcast on the topic by going here: Take the brute force out of your fears by dissecting them. Fears can be: No one will [...]
These days, even the smallest-scale entrepreneur working out of her home office in Boise, Idaho can have a circle of clients and partners from around the world. She may have an Australian graphic designer create her logo. She may manufacture her product line in China. She may hire technical developers and e-commerce experts from India. [...]
Living in the world of abstraction, it is easy to think that making decisions about the direction of your business will be straight-forward and simple if you have done the hard work of setting life priorities, choosing a target market and creating a business plan. Reality is much more complex. Yesterday, I had a jolt [...]
One of the great perks of being a blogger is that I get to talk to a lot of really interesting people. A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by Randal Pinkett, last season’s winner of The Apprentice and author of the new book Campus CEO. This book was written as an all-encompassing how-to [...]
All of us are very busy. We have consuming jobs, families, businesses to manage and errands to run. If you are in the process of simultaneously working full-time as an employee and building a business on the side, your time pressures are even more extreme. This is no excuse for letting certain things slide. I [...]
In the spirit of relationship-based networking and promotion that I just talked about, I am happy to share info on the contest my buddy Kristie T is promoting called Doing Business in Your Bathrobe. I have to admit that some days, I am so groggy from late night emailing that I begin my work day [...]
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