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...
Entrepreneurship
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...
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,...
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...
The Best Business To Own in Pictures Not Just Words
The best business to own is one that you can envision growing hand in hand with your ability to satisfy the needs of the people that you care most about. These people that you should care most about are your customers. So the best business to own is the...
Steps to Start a Business Fast When You Want to Get The Lead Out
The steps to start a business fast are not all the same nor are all steps to starting a business equally important. But there is a series of steps that you may consider optimal if you truly wish to get going fast in initiating a micro-venture, especially if you’re...
Starting Own Business With No Money But Some Maturity
The sign reads: ‘Starting Own Business, Every Nickel Helps’. That’s what the gentleman down on his luck (and sitting on the curb) wanted you to believe he would do with my money. “It’s not a loan,” he says. “But it’s going toward a worthwhile cause…” May be the joke...