The need for mentorship in business is not insignificant. Too many people – too many young and old – receive zero education and training in either launching or running a business. A mentor will share knowledge and experience, explain needed skills and how to develop them to help someone...
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Why Some Sales Demos ‘EXPLODE’ in Your Face
Long before professor Victor Davis Hanson classified California as “America’s First Third-World State”, I was a student at the University of California. This was over 3 decades ago. Times were different then. Back then, I had to leave college for a while. My wife became pregnant with our first...
Why Daredevil Entrepreneurs Give Entrepreneurship A Bad Name
An entrepreneur definition worth analyzing is that of entrepreneur Tara Hunt, after her potential investors rejected her business proposal: This is when you go and take a big drink. Tequila has been my favorite… What happened? What happened between that really exciting meeting and this? It’s like everybody...
5 Mini Lessons in Exploiting Small Business Opportunity
The secret of success? According to twice British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli the secret is to be ready for your opportunity when it shows. Are you already dreaming of a small business opportunity? Don’t dream anymore. Seize it. It’s now before you. “Every man has one chance in his...
Starting A Business At Home With Freelancer Help
Success in starting a business at home greatly depends on how good you are at budgeting your existing resources. And in a difficult global economic climate, where businesses are looking to optimize costs, the opportunity for you to start a business at home has enormously increased if you can...
How Not To Fail in Starting A Business From Home
Maybe you’ve worked remote for over a year and liked it. Maybe unemployment is that uncomfortable situation you’re facing now and you’re thinking a home business is where your opportunity lies. Maybe you’re having to leave retirement because you’re running out of money. Or maybe it’s under-employment. Or perhaps...
Work at Home, Sell Online, Live an MLM’s Nomad Capitalist Life
Work at home, sell online. It’s fun. It seems easy. And it’s a career. It’s one I chose to follow several years ago. But I didn’t opt to use multi-level marketing (MLM) as my starting business model. And I wouldn’t recommend it unless you understand what you’re really doing....
Why a Steady Income Stream from Your Employer is Most Unreliable Today
If you’ve been an employee for a while, you may have brainwashed yourself into believing that you have steady income stream security for as long as you’re occupied working for your employer. This is a persistent deception. Employers in the marketplace can and often do make cuts in your...
What Do You Need to Start a Business That Lasts?
What you need to start a business that lasts is a persistence to avoid living like a Fred Flintstone. Remember him? Back between 1960 and 1966 the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) launched a sitcom starring this animated cartoon character, his middle-class family (wife Wilma and daughter Pebbles) and his...
Finding Small Business Marketing Techniques Lost in a Hay Stack of New Technology
I’ve made a living simplifying technology in marketing for large and small businesses that want to use both, technology and marketing techniques, to make more good money. The marketing technology helps these businesses improve interactions with their customers when tactically used through sound techniques. For a long time, marketing...
What Online Business To Start If You’re Smarter Than a Bug
What online business to start? If you’re smart, consider the following before taking your first step. You’ve heard it’s easier than ever to be on the Internet. And now you want to know what business to start there. Let me give you a warning. If you’re smarter than a...
Why Start In Business Without Running Discount Deals
When you start in business, it is very easy to develop the new entrant mentality. This is something that I discourage in my clients. In fact, this week I was speaking about it to one of them, who has become very successful this year. “Last year,” I reminded him,...
Small Business Lead Generation When You Have Zero Customers, Zero Money
Small business lead generation should not be hard to figure out, when you know that you have neither customers nor money. Most people would say the answer is easy because without either customers or money you can’t do any small business lead generation. What’s so hard to figure out...
5 Entrepreneurship Myths in Starting My Own Business
Starting my own business is a dream that I’d had since I was a little boy witnessing my father run his own operation. After I lost my father’s guidance early in my teens when my parents separated, I latched onto my father’s early instructions to cultivate my mind with...
The ‘Start Own Business’ Mantra. Will You Quit It Already?
“Start own business…Start own business…” It’s like a mantra many keep droning about in their heads for years. “One day I’ll start my own business.” Then nothing happens. Procrastination or fear fetter their feet to a stone wall while dreams of success float about like a balloon on a...