By Suzanne Evans
Helpingpreneurs want to help. Imagine that. You have a giving heart and a spirit of support, healing, and love. Often times that beauty stops you from being business first. And business first is really important. Gina Ratliffe uses wonderful terms about service professionals asking
Are you a hobbyist?
or
Are you wealth conscious?
The wealth conscious entrepreneur [...]
By Brad Sugars
Do you have one good reason to start your business right now?
How about 10?
Regardless of what people around you may say, right now is absolutely the best time to get into business, and I’ll give you 10 good reasons “why” - no matter what other people or the media say.
If you don’t believe [...]
By Daniel Stouffer
In a struggling economy, like the one we are experiencing now, a lot of people think it’s a bad time to start a work from home or home based business. But that’s just not true. Not true at all. It is really a great time to start a home-based business - especially one [...]
This article is intended for probably your significant other or spouse to read… I felt compelled to write it talking to them about your needs since my marriage went south due to the lack of much of this. If you currently don’t have one, give it to a family member or friend and/or save for [...]
By Jack Funderburk
You may be surprised to know that a very good time to start a business is during a recession or even a depression. Many of the companies that are on the S & P 500 started during times like we are currently experiencing.
Here are a few of the startup companies that began their [...]
By Nick Jervis
What action can you take to ensure that you hold onto your staff and keep your recruitment costs as low as possible? Estimates vary, but to replace a solicitor the total expense in terms of recruitment, lost man hours of the outgoing staff and the training of the incoming member, can exceed £100,000.
The [...]
By Jed McCall
During the past few years there have been dramatic changes in communications and technology. Our home computers have more computing power now than the Americans had to land on the moon! Do you think that these changes unlock an opportunity?
By Michael Redbourn
Doing A Job That You Hate Is Like Going To Prison
There are a huge number of people that really dislike their jobs and when they get up in the morning and head for their workplace, they feel like they’re going to be incarcerated for the next several hours, which in a sense they [...]
Creativity…”Originality, Imaginative thinking”
You’ve no doubt heard about “thinking outside the box”. Very often, business creativity is referred to as thinking outside the box. You can get locked in to your day-to-day operational thinking “inside the box”, and forget totally about the requirements of the need for business creativity. It is very easy to lose sight [...]
By Terry Cartwright
A lack of skill, ability and experience in certain business areas need not be a barrier to success and starting your own business. The personal qualities exerted by a small business owner overcoming deficiencies over and over again are vital and present in many entrepreneurs much more so that specific technical knowledge.
Not everyone [...]
“No, I’m not ready to release my….(fill in the blank here with ezine, ecourse, ebook, blog, website, etc.) because it’s not quite ready. I need to…(fill in with your excuse here: do more work on it….have it edited….review the copywriting, etc.)”
How many times has a statement similar to that come out of your mouth? I [...]
When was the last time you heard someone talking about the proverbial “next level” in their business? Probably in the last 24 hours! Well, I don’t know about you… but I’m a little tired of hearing this phrase over and over again.
When I was in Las Vegas recently with my mastermind colleagues, we originally thought [...]
Imagine your ideal lifestyle. A life without financial hardship, all the free time in the world to spend how you want and with whom you want. No longer trading your time for money. A life where the less you work the more your income grows. What if it could be more than just a figment [...]
Bonita L. Richter, MBA, teaches coaches, consultants, and solo professionals how to market their businesses to increase sales , income, and generate wealth.
A business model is simply what activities you do to make money in your business. Missing just one major element jeopardizes the ability of your business to achieve the income results you [...]
By Suzanne Evans
Feel like you lost your calling in all this marketing madness? I know. In the quest to build our dream business we can sometime lose sight of the gift that fueled that BIG business dream. One of the best ways to attract clients and quantum leap your business results is to reconnect with [...]
By Niki Irmal
As 81 million American baby boomers begin to move into their retirement years, they are redefining what retirement means. For many, it doesn’t mean they’ve stopped working, but rather that they are exercising more choice over how they work. According to a 2009 survey, some 75 percent of people who chose to engage [...]
By Emma Wortt
‘Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.’ - Coco Chanel.
How’s your internal negative voice today? You know the one. The one that tells you things like ‘that’ll never work’, ‘that’s a stupid idea’, ‘who on Earth would want to buy this stuff from you?’, [...]
By Emma Wortt
‘Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.’ Art Buchwald.
Well here we are again and can you believe it’s already May next week! Where is that time going? We’ll be half way through the year before we know it and isn’t [...]
With the unprecedented growth explosion of e-commerce, retailing and the expansion of the internet marketplace, an overwhelming number of opportunities for starting an online business have emerged. Yet, the question remains: should you take up a job or start an online business? A working job requires less responsibility than owning an online business, solely because [...]
There is a growing role for emotional intelligence in business.
Emotional Intelligence is increasingly relevant to organizations and businesses today, since it has been proven to help understand and assess people’s behavior.
Although Emotional Intelligence became popular after the publication of Daniel Goleman’s Book, “Emotional Intelligence”, in 1995, it was researched and developed during the 70’s and [...]