Body Language Speaks Louder Than Words

Hire smart by looking past what references say about former employees and finding out what they mean. Nonverbal cues can often tell you more about a person than what that person spells out in an e-mai...Full Article

Body Language Speaks Louder Than Words

Hire smart by looking past what references say about former employees and finding out what they mean. Nonverbal cues can often tell you more about a person than what that person spells out in an e-mai...Full Article

If They Could Turn Back Time

9 entrepreneurs take a look back at their startup days and reveal what they would have done differently if they knew then what they know now. Its always easier to look back at a situation and realize ...Full Article

An Entrepreneur Is

An entrepreneur is an innovator. She sees a need in the marketplace and creates something new to fulfill that need or improves upon an existing mechanism that already fulfills that need.An entrepreneu...Full Article

The Lonely Hat: A Marketing Parable

Jones was a typical entrepreneur who worked long hours and wore many hats.The problem was that all the hats screamed for attention. Jones solved the problem by wearing the hat that screamed the loudes...Full Article

16 Vital Traits Shared by All Successful Entrepreneurs

The first step in deciding whether to start a business is to ask yourself this important question: Do I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? A variety of experts have documented research that in...Full Article

Double Your Income Automatically

It is a common known fact that it is far cheaper to keep an existing customer then it is to acquire a new customer. With this fact in mind you need to do everything possible to keep your existing cus...Full Article

3 Essential Elements of Operating a Successful Business

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to live your dream? A good place to start would be to recognize that there are three elements, and only three elements, that separate success from failure....Full Article

Six Degrees of Separation

Through just five or six intermediaries, you could be linked to millions of others. It is the notion behind what has been dubbed the small world effect.It has happed to most of us, and its virtually g...Full Article

Key to Starting Your Own Clothing Company

Starting your own private label clothing company is not as difficult as you may think. I assure you that the founding members of Volcom, Paul Frank, Hurley and Von Dutch, are not mad geniuses of fashi...Full Article

Four Steps to Entrepreneurship

As more and more people start or consider starting their own business, it is important that they understand the core steps that are required to launch successful ventures. These steps include spotting...Full Article

Hurricane Katrina, Death, and a Different Type of Entrepreneurship

Ive seen terrible images today on the television and internet-bodies of the elderly and infants floating in attics, buildings collapsing, seals washing up in the middle of highways. All I can say is t...Full Article

Work On, Not In Your Business

Are you busy? Everyones busy! Ask anyone theyll tell you how busy they are. But how many people are accomplishing real results?In your small business, its easy to get buried in the myriad activities ...Full Article

Its Good to Know Your Banker

Recently my bank opened a new branch that is a few miles away from my house. I used to visit the local branch that was located in the grocery store and enjoyed seeing the ladies on a weekly basis who ...Full Article

Have You Been Thinking About Owning Your Own Business? Or Becoming An Entrepreneur? Part 1

Almost every day, I talk with people who want to start their own home-based businesses. I receive an interesting reaction when I ask people, What are you looking for in a home-based business? The most...Full Article

Entrepreneurs - Your Well Being Should Come Before Profits

I believe the spiritual aspect of life, especially to entrepreneurs, is very important. While business may be the focal point for an entrepreneurs life, its your outlook on life that shapes what kind ...Full Article

Franchise Business and Franchise Businesses

Franchise business is being part of a successfully proven business that has a name or trademark that is well known and profitable. Franchise businesses are strategically tried and marketable with opti...Full Article

Youve Found Your Guru, Now What?

In my last article, "Follow That Guru", I told you about the one (1) simple technique I used when starting my home business, "A Name".Now everyone wants to know what to do next. O...Full Article

Increasing Business BIGTIME with a Successful Referral System

What Ive discovered from most of my small business clients is that most would prefer to build their business through referrals rather than through direct mail, advertising in newspapers, radio, TV. H...Full Article

Secret Revealed In The Business Code

? Beginners often rush into business without any planning.? Unless you do your homework, there could be many avoidable pitfalls.? You will minimise these pitfalls with careful preparation and planning...Full Article