Start Your Brand Now; Iterate Later
I have seen countless startups fail because they take too long to launch. Likewise, I have met many professionals or would be bloggers that are paralyzed because they can’t decide on a URL name or their brand positioning.
Yes, it’s important to think hard about a blog name as it will potentially be your blog …
Olympian Action for Entrepreneurs
As I watched the Olympics this year, several analogies came to mind in regard to being an entrepreneur. To begin, it was the apparent determination to succeed that brought about invitations for those finalists to participate at the games.
Economies have been very slow over the past number of years. And many entrepreneurs have felt …
Setting BEST Goals For Your Best Personal Brand
Keeping your personal brand afloat requires maintaining the present and preparing for the future. With that being said – goals come to mind. A personal brand without goals keeps you at a standstill, while one with action-filled goals accelerates you along your career path.
As a working professional, goal setting is a staple in determining …
Be Patient-Career Advancement is Progressive!
“Careers used to move themselves. Now, we are responsible for moving our careers in the direction we want them to go”.
There are some fundamental questions that need to be addressed and answered with regard to career advancement.
People want it quickly, immediate gratification, and it just doesn’t work that way. We all have to …
Target to Widen Your Audience Appeal
Everything appears to come full circle. Looking back, I find the advice received in my first year in business will always hold true, and, furthermore, it makes more sense now that I have lived the experience.
Upon starting my business, a marketing professional set me back on my heels by asking, “Who is your target …
Top 3 Reasons Why Lifestyle Businesses Fail
My friend Andy made a comment about lifestyle design that resonated with me because it’s so true and so funny:
A few years ago, everyone read the 4 Hour Work Week and got a boner for building a lifestyle business. Very few people actually succeeded because it turned out to be much harder than they …
Rules for Assuming the Sale
You may have previously been advised to “Assume the sale”. The implied characteristics of doing so are to speak with confidence and assume you will get the sale as you begin to meet with your clientele until otherwise notified.
However, along with the advice come inherent problems. The #1 error made by most businesspeople is …
Entrepreneurship Will Leap Frog Your Career
Entrepreneurship and career advancement make the perfect couple! The combination is equivalent to having your cake and eating it too.
When you next move to doing the exact opposite of where you currently are at, you will learn at a far more rapid rate. Especially if you prefer the type of position you have but …
Transitioning From Roadblock To Success
While in conversation with ‘Ron’, as he relayed his #1 stumbling block as a beginning entrepreneur, the expression, “misery loves company” came to mind. Ron used to believe his perfect prospective clientele was X, but he found that X was either lacking the money to invest in sales training or was simply not interested. Despite …
Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and thinking differently from everyone else. I was relieved to learn in a class that “conventional wisdom” need not apply!
Believe in yourself
According to conventional wisdom, we are told the first step to building our business is to write out a detailed business plan. But most of us …