One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is the freedom to set your own hours and cultivate your own work style. You won’t have to battle commuter traffic to make it to the office at 8 every morning, and your work attire may...
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One of the biggest benefits of being an entrepreneur is the freedom to set your own hours and cultivate your own work style. You won’t have to battle commuter traffic to make it to the office at 8 every morning, and your work attire may become flannel pajama pants and a tank top. Keep in mind that working for yourself requires possessing the self-discipline to work a full day without supervision. Starting your own business involves hard work, and you’ll probably be working far more than 40 hours a week.
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When the weather is overcast, clouds fill the sky and it never seems to stop raining every day, it is understandable for people to feel depressed and disillusioned with the world around them. But that feeling can also be apparent in your business life as well, when dark clouds form over your business and just like the rain the problems seem to just fall out of the sky. With the current economic recession around us all, it is causing many cloud bursts and, as a business leader, you and your... Read Full Story
All businesses would like to find a way to increase their productivity and improve their overall efficiency in the way that they do their business. But with the hectic pace of business, most business leaders find it really hard to find time to do anything about it. They are spending almost all of their time just keeping the business running as smoothly as they can. Sometimes, they get the feeling that they have taken one step forward, only to find that they have really taken two steps back... Read Full Story
Many things have been changed since the advent of internet. 20 years back it was a different kind of scenario. Many things were stationed at a place for a long period; much more time was taken to process the business. Business correspondence were using post office for a prolonged period. There was even at that particular point of time what happened was e-mail wasn’t considered at all even by the biggest company. Today, when every company, even the smallest one, has an internet but the... Read Full Story
As a company coach, your area of proficiency is enlightening business owners through business coaching courses . You share tips on ways to operate a lucrative and cost-effective business.You do so however with one-on-one explanations, instructional exercises, and written materials that can be cited at anytime. Most business coaches have a special step-by-step program that they use. You should be no different. Whether your current curriculum has you working one-on-one with your patron or... Read Full Story
During my business life I have had many opportunities to spend quite a significant amount of time in other business leaders companies. And whilst there, I have had the good fortune to have several very interesting one to one conversations. On one particular occasion I was in the boardroom of one of the brand leaders in the drinks and beverages industry. And I asked a leading executive of that famous beverages company this question. “Why do you make strange coloured liquid, put it into funny... Read Full Story
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Small Business Specialist
5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business Mashable
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Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter. One of the biggest misconceptions with online marketing is that social media is only for large brands. Truthfully, a small business that invests its time wisely can improve customer... Read Full Story
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Small Business Specialist
New Radio Talk Show for Small Business Launched by Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mike Whitaker PRWeb
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The "In Business with Mike Whitaker" radio show is set to launch August 1 in the Oklahoma area. The weekly broadcast will feature real - world insight into small business, entrepreneurship, and building confidence and will air on Saturday mornings on Oklahoma's two largest talk radio stations... Read Full Story
This summer is proving to be the season of movie “reboots” (think Star Trek and Terminator Salvation ), prequels (again, Terminator Salvation , sort of, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine ), and sequels ( Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen , and Angels and Demons ). On average, sequels typically don’t fare as well as the originals unless you happen to be a superstar director -- oh, like Sam Raimi ( Spiderman 2 ) or Christopher Nolan ( The Dark Knight ) or maybe Lewis Howes ( LinkedIn Networking... Read Full Story
A few days ago, I received a comment on a post I made about using Linkedin to enhance your job search. My typical response would have been to let the comment simply pass into oblivion or delete it because it was a blatant advertisement for a “pay to play” job hunting service.
However, after some deliberation, I thought that this would be a wonderful opportunity to promote a product from one of my Linkedin contacts. So I published the comment, left a follow up comment thanking the... Read Full Story
Business leaders have to deal with problems in their businesses every day, they call them challenges or obstacles, that are stopping them from being able to obtain a more successful business. But, whatever they call them they are still problems that have to be solved as quickly as possible, so that they can turn their focus back to running their businesses smoothly. As a business coach, when I meet with business leaders in the privacy of their own companies, one of the first things I will... Read Full Story
