If there is one thing I have learned in my 41 years life, is that authenticity is the ultimate path to success. Yes, it does yield financial freedom. But, it yields so much more than that. Authenticity means you don’t need to fake anything. Authenticity means you can be unabashedly true to who and what [...]
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GAAP Accounting Is Kinda Useless Here it goes: The GAAP has it all wrong. Now, before you click the little X at the top of the screen to close out of this article or look for the comments button to sound off, hear me out on this. As an entrepreneur, you may just find what [...]
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Does your company make pillows? You’re a manufacturer. That’s obvious. Does your company clean rooms? You’re also a manufacturer. That is not so obvious. But you in fact are. Every company makes something. The pillow guy makes a physical thing that gives the consumer an experience of comfort. The cleaning guy provides a service, that [...]
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I have met entrepreneur after entrepreneur who started a business with tons of inspiration, excitement and energy only to lose their mojo months or years later. Their passion faded. At least that is what they thought. In reality, they were never passionate about what they did. They were just excited. And those are two very [...]
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The formula is simple. You fix your bottom line by increasing revenue or cutting costs or both. Yet, most entrepreneurs put all their efforts on the sell side only. They try to “sell their way out” of an unprofitable business. Its not necessarily the best thing to do, and not even logical at times. Selling [...]
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If you think something will take an hour, it will take a day. If you think something will take a day, it will take a week. And if you think something will take a week, it will take a month, or possibly a year. The winners stick with it. They over estimate their own abilities. [...]
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At age 13 I bugged my Dad about getting a guitar. He supported it. He actually insisted on taking me to the store to get one. When we got there, he immediately marched us over to the used section, and asked the salesman which guitar was in the worst condition. Which one was the most [...]
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Who is the best competitive swimmer in the world right now? Michael Phelps. You knew the answer, I’m sure. You might not even follow the Olympics, or any sport, but you still know who Michael Phelps is. We remember him and his record-breaking eight gold medals (and maybe we remember him for another, slightly less [...]
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I spoke with a group of entrepreneurs in Chicago last week and explained the importance of finding their EST. Are you the fastEST in your industry? Are you the niceEST? The coolEST, sweetEST, hottEST, etc. In other words, what makes you the most unique in your industry. During the presentation, one of the attendees said [...]
Read more“Your idea is stupid.” Has anyone ever told you that your business idea won’t make it? That your idea is too odd, too unique or too different? That you need to stick with what is proven? Here is the dealio, your entrepreneurial success is almost exclusively determined by following your passion, servicing the living hell [...]
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Dusting off your high school yearbook may be the last thing you want to do this fine day, but its faded pages hold clues to entrepreneurial gold. Seriously. Whether you look back on them as the glory days or the worst four years of your life, during that time high school taught you an essential [...]
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How To Take Advantage Of Being A Micro-Enterprise If you’ve been calling yourself an entrepreneur, yet feeling more like a freelancer and less than a business owner, stop for minute. You may actually be a micro-enterprise. Okay, if you’re like most people, you may not even know for sure what a micro-enterprise is, or if [...]
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Bankers need to play it safe. When they make a loan, they need a high degree of confidence that they will make the money back (plus some). A banker is most confident in a business plan that points to others already successfully doing what you intend to do. But entrepreneurial success doesn’t come from repeating [...]
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What are your secret, real talents? Secret talents are those special skills you have that you may not use on a regular basis. Everybody has at least one secret talent. It doesn’t matter what your secret talent may be. What matters is that you know it’s there. The talent is yours to use as you [...]
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The 5 Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur That saying, “Every time one door closes, another opens,”? That saying was describing entrepreneurialism. Every year thousands of businesses open their doors. But thousands also close their doors. Estimates are that 50% of those who start a business fail (or succeed) at it. Millions of people have entertained [...]
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Before we get started here, I want to make sure we agree on something. Every hour of our life is an hour closer to our death. In other words each hour we spend, regardless of how we spend it, is a life unit. Okay? Okay. So here is my question for you: How many life [...]
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THE OBJECTIVE: I want some funny, relevant phrases for my website and thought a fun, easy contest would make this a win-win for both you and me. THE PRIZES: I am giving away a FREE autographed copy of The Pumpkin Plan and an even more FREE copy of my “Industry Authority” DVD training (which I recorded last [...]
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Systematizing your business means freedom. Not just one type of freedom, but many. You are freed from doing the work. And systems even give you the choice to simply watch the business run or improve how it runs. You are freed from the limits of your time. And since systems (done right) don’t need you, [...]
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If Only It hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. A prospect for my business growth consulting group decided to go with a competitor. Egads! I mean how could they pick someone else? This is when I started analyzing the situation, and came up with all the possible ways I could have prevented this. [...]
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Recruit Talent Fast What if you could prescreen interviewees for your company when it was convenient for you, like when you’re sitting on the couch during commercial breaks or in the 30-minutes over coffee before you start your day? If you don’t have a human resources person who does nothing but screen applicants for your [...]
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