Entrepreneurial Spirit: Ground Zero to Finding Success
The entrepreneurial spirit believes that quitting is acceptable only after success has been found but not before. Even though a new direction may be found, the experience of the previous route remains a teacher for the new.
It is the spirit and drive of the person that is bound and determined to learn from errors …
Learn How to Improve from What You’re Learning
You don’t have to come into a situation knowing it all. But you do have to come in wanting to learn.
Gathering useful knowledge from many sources is one of the most underrated qualities of a leader. Good leaders constantly seek it, collect it, and store it into their brains, computers, or trusted administrative assistants.…
Personal Branding Weekly – The Owner’s Brand
“If it’s going to be, it’s up to me” – Robert Schuller
Your brand is up to you. You either rationalize that you don’t have time to focus on it, don’t think it matters, and don’t know where to start or you focus on it and take ownership of it.
Rationalizing is just like it …
How To Create Your Professional Vision Board
While the origin of the vision board is unknown, we do know that people have been visualizing their desired results for thousands of years. Many ancient native peoples had a practice of visualizing a successful hunt prior to setting out with their hunting instruments. Today, everyone from eastern spiritual healers to Navy Seals use visualizing …
Exploiting A Niche To Master Your Brand
In building your brand, it may seem like an impossible task to become one of the most respected voices in a particular market segment. It is, however, possible, but not by force. The path of least resistance in becoming a respected voice in a broad market segment is to start extremely narrow.
Begin by evaluating …
9 Ways to Get Bloggers Talking About Your Brand
What is one surefire tip for getting bloggers to talk about your brand?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.
1. Reach out to your blogging customers
“Don’t send a free pass to your software for a blogger and expect …
Three Time Management Strategies for Freelancers
The life of a freelancer sounds ideal. You work when you want, doing what you want, how you want. However, the reality of a freelance life is very different. There is either too much or not enough work. Along with delivering service, you have to market and take care of business duties. Trying to manage …
Goal Setting is Personal
Why do you do anything that you do?
This question came up the other day in a conversation about business and career planning. On the surface it seems quite obvious and the answer is something we all should intrinsically just know. Or so it seems. However, as we dug into it, the answers weren’t all …
Use About.me to Showcase Your Resume
Would you like to showcase your top resume skills and make more connections?
There are several personal portal websites that can help you do that: About.me, Vizify and RebelMouse are just a few.
If you like the simple, better approach, then About.me is the right service to incorporate into your job seeking efforts. The website, …
Own Your Connections
Your connections begin in your own database. When I’m asked about how to “own your game”, or dominate your niche, the first place I begin asking about is what do you know about your database?
Even those born within this last minute, already have a handful of people in their personal database. From the mother …