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Stay Positive With Stacia Pierce
For the person aiming for success, award winning life and career coach, Stacia Pierce shares her insight on self sabotaging thoughts that you must avoid thinking in order to succeed. Go For Your Dreams “When you decide to go after your dreams, many things will pop up in your life…all kinds of resistance may show up and give you plenty of [...]
Are You Ready to Run the Race of Running a Business?
You’ve seen the signs and made the decision: You’re going to start your own business. Immediately, you’re sucker-punched by your fears. But the more you think about it, the more you convince yourself that you just might pull it off. Your confidence grows as the days go by. Finally, you’ve reached the point of no return, and you’re ready [...]
Michael E. Gerber and The Master Game
Michael E. Gerber (www.michaelegerbercompanies.com) is an entrepreneur, thought leader, speaker and best-selling author whose modern classic, “The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It,” has sold more than 3 million copies. He is the founder of The Dreaming Room™, where entrepreneurs and others are provided the [...]
Why Small Business Failure Rates are Declining
Hidden in much of the gloomy news about small business in recent years is an important positive statistic: business failure rates are in a long-term decline. The rate at which American employers go under has fallen by 30 percent since 1977. Sure, the trend is far from perfectly linear. Business failure rates rise in recessions and [...]
DIY Repurposed Magnets
I have lots of small treasures hidden within the drawers of my armoire, or dwelling within depths of my bed-side storage. They are collections of trinkets from my childhood; pretty jewelry that have lost a few gems and bags of sea-glass that I’ve picked up from the beaches of my college-town. I wanted to think of ways to place [...]
Ready for a Legit Office Space? Think About These 4 Things Before Starting Your Search.
The contemporary startup garage is often the founder’s living room, a friend’s spare desk or a coffee shop with reliable WiFi. As cozy and cash-efficient as these setups can be, in time — and with revenue or a successful fundraising — your growing team needs a legit space. Related: Looking for Your Dream Office Space? [...]
Smari Yogurt
Yogurt may have originated as a way of preserving milk, but today its appeal is about fast, easy nutrition. Packed with protein and calcium, the cultured dairy product is big business, with at least one recent report estimating the US yogurt market to be over $8 billion and growing. Smari Organics’ goal is to make it easier for families [...]
Attention Anxious Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Find a Business Partner
Brace yourself. This might sting a wee bit: Not everyone should go it alone. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur, though. It just means that you might need a partner to hike the startup path with you, says Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND Healthy Snacks, at the Entrepreneur 360 conference in New York City. “I know a [...]
8 Initiatives to Make Your Customers Loyal Advocates
If you can’t provide a memorable customer experience, your startup won’t survive very long these days. According to many observers, we can thank or blame technology for these higher expectations, providing information at the speed of light, leading everyone to expect more. You now need more than loyalty from your customers — they [...]