Entrepreneur Stories

How To Increase Your Confidence Instantly

Confidence isn't about other people.  Confidence is really about the stories we tell ourselves in our heads.  It’s revealed in our body language, our word choices, and the image we...

Our Visit to MSNBC’s Your Business

Mike Michalowicz was at MSNBC's Your Business yesterday, to discuss pivoting, tax strategies, and other business strategies. Be sure to tune into MSNBC this Sunday at 7:30am ET (or set...

Double The Results, Half The Effort

What are you working on right now? I want you to pause just for a moment and ask a question about it: “How do you double the results with half...

Storytelling Can Kill Your Message

We tell stories because they paint pictures in people’s minds. When we get an audience – whether it’s one person or 2500 – thinking creatively and engaged in our story,...

The Biggest Competitive Advantage Goes To Small Businesses

Every entrepreneur knows that starting and growing a small business is a challenge.  We don’t have the enormous resources – financial and otherwise – that the big guys do, and...

How You Can Fix Any Business Problem

Most consultants fail. They blow it on a regular basis, not because they are bad or that they have bad systems. Quite to the contrary, most consultants and coaches I...

Courage

Entrepreneurship requires courage. It requires courage to start, it requires courage to continue. But perhaps most importantly, it requires courage finish. As each phase of the entrepreneur’s journey comes to...

My Dumbest Mistakes: How NOT To Recruit Top Talent

It popped in my mind like many of me “genius” thoughts, while in the shower. I distinctly remember the moment, because as the thought came to me as stinging shampoo...

Entrepreneurs Frozen By Fear

I shouldn’t be writing this blog post right now.  I should be taking actions that will result in immediate and recurring revenue. The last two months have been devastatingly quiet....

Skype Small Business Profile: Wendy Kenney

In the olden days – you know, the 80s and 90s – if you wanted to do business, you had to live and work close enough to population centers so...

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