When business and the economy starts to improve, will corporations and people resume to business and life  as usual? I don’t think so…or maybe I should say, I hope not. We continually are moved by short-term thinking which helps bring on these challenges. Capitalism used to be better balanced.  Long term growth and success were [...]

Why passion and interest are so important. Let me take a minute to share with you why many people fail in entrepreneurship  and why many succeed. It all starts with passion and interest. With it, or without, people can tell your sincerity. I will explain why. Some people are attracted to a direct sales business [...]

We need more entrepreneurs and start-ups. A lot more of them! New entrepreneurs starting new companies means new products and services, new ideas, new approaches, and more people making MONEY! I’m not just talking about the fast-growing companies that expand at double-digit rates, the creation of more tech companies or a bunch of cool new [...]

So many of us are now trained in school to find a job but are bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers. But many of these kids might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. While at a TED conference, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — [...]

I great Quote – The Man in The Arena “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by [...]

WHY SUPPORT LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES? The problem facing our economy is the lack of jobs and all indications are that it won’t be getting better soon for many. Many are turning to entrepreneurship and starting their own businesses as their solution – and THEY need our help and support. People are starting small retail businesses [...]

Attention Small Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Home Business Owners, Customer Service and Sales Professionals: Follow up, Follow up, Follow up ! Many businesses I have coached missed out on more sales, more customers, and word-of-mouth advertising because they didn’t have an effective way to follow up and stay connected! I will share with you a powerful [...]

Over the past six years I have participated in a number of seminars, sessions, coaching by some of the best ( Laural Langemeier, Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Allen) and read over 200 books to find out the secrets of success to help others. I have seen success come from a number of different angles. What is [...]

So what exactly is a business incubator? A business incubator is an established professional environment that has been put together to help nurture and grow small business start-ups. They typically are used to help entrepreneurs with the early stages of small businesses development. Now they are available for the person who wants to start a [...]

Business incubators are programs designed to accelerate the success of an individual who is starting a new company through an array of business support resources and services. It allows for the development of the individual or team to grow and use their skills in a nurturing and supportive environment where their is constant feedback. In [...]

The challenge to help the average guy become an entrepreneur with a low level of investment and risk drove three guys from Silicon Valley to act on a passion for helping others find entrepreneurialism. When Andy, Roland and I set out to help friends find their passion in a business, little did we know that [...]

With today’s technology and the Internet, there are almost endless home business opportunities for retirees and other people over age 50 to take advantage of. If you own a computer, and have broadband access to the Internet, you can start a variety of businesses from home and enjoy the income and flexibility of being your [...]

If you still trust your 401(k) to lead you to healthy retirement, then you should stop reading now… This article probably isn’t for you But if you are one of the individuals that lost money and trust that your 401k was going to be your only retirement income, then I’ve have some information that you [...]

Author Jim Collins writes about what he calls a “Hedgehog Concept” in his book Good to Great. He represents this as the core competency at which an organization can become the best in the world. He said it would be the intersection of several other competencies. Using Collin’s model, let’s look at what could and [...]

For the last decade, going to work meant getting up in the morning and traveling from home to an office, store, warehouse or plant. New information from a private market-research firm estimates that as many as 1 3 million people squeeze extra hours into their work week by taking work home from their full-time jobs, [...]

With the current state of the economy, personal bad credit seems to be one of the hurdles facing entrepreneurs. Starting a home business is one of the best opportunity for building wealth. The two challenges most people have are – Fear and they don’t believe they know how. Yet the sooner you get started, the [...]

When you first thought about venturing into the world of a business, you no doubt were looking at the many benefits and opportunities a business can offer. Then, after jumping in, you may have realized that success may take a little more time and work than expected. If you have been giving your business plenty [...]

Just as each and every one of us had to learn to walk, no one was born knowing how to be a successful entrepreneur. Every entrepreneur had to learn how to be effective at what he was trying to accomplish — and practice being effective until it became a habit. There are four key stages [...]

There are few resources helping the non-academic understand the trials and tribulations that young entrepreneurs face in their journey. Whenever possible, I encourage entrepreneurs to mentor and network to help the next generation of new business builders. It is the journey and insider education through stories that will provide the foundation for the entrepreneurs of [...]

Like many people, I had a pretty dim view of the overly aggressive sales tactics and misleading meeting agendas that I ran into with many of the earlier direct marketing efforts. Now I see that things have changed for the better – much better! But it is hard to find the people who are building [...]