All Entries Tagged With: "Entrepreneurship"

Who does not like the idea of being one’s own boss, calling the shots, managing assets (and may be people), and making money as unlimited as your talents and enterprise? Yet loving the idea of business ownership is one thing, and making the business a success is another.

We are always learning and will continue until dead. There is always something that could be improved and, to figure out, knowledge will facilitate the process.

Are public relations a big mystery to you? Have you avoided creating your PR plan because you just don’t know where to start? Well the good news is most PR is free and I’m going to show you how to begin. Here are 3 more success tips (see Part 1 of this series for the [...]

Are public relations a big mystery to you? Have you avoided creating your PR plan because you just don’t know where to start? Well the good news is most PR is free and I’m going to show you how to begin. Here are 3 success tips that you can implement RIGHT now to get the [...]

Creative types get typecast as meandering goal setters for a reason. They tend to meander. We resist structure (even tho’ we crave it.) We relish spontaneity (even tho’ we’re intrigued by five year goal setting plans.) We tend to be driven by inspiration (when we’re not obsessed with looking good on paper, or to our [...]

In my commitment to live bolder, truer, Me’er, I’ve got to be clear that I am not “a brand.” (Yep, that’s rather strange for a “branding expert” to say.) I earn my living by teaching about what I live. And it never fails that the more transparent I am, the more useful I seem to [...]

When we think and talk about gardening, gardens and gardeners, we should begin with the very first one. The Almighty! As it was He who built that first garden, Eden. On this, his Earth. He made that for us, as well. To dwell as in heaven, and not as in hell. To emerge as successful [...]

I’m in the process of creating a new profit center for my business.  And I thought it might help you to read about the four steps I’m following to create a successful (and fun) profit center. STEP ONE : Write out a vision for it.  I know…I know.  You don’t think this is important.  I’m [...]

A coach once gave me some great advice that I embraced. She said, “flaunt your quirks.” The quirkier the better. What this means is that all the qualities and characteristics that make you unique are part of your essential, true self.

You will have the best results in business if you create your vision first.  Then you can take “inspired action” consistently and persistently.  Without vision you may find yourself in the same boat as many unsuccessful business owners who dash madly from one marketing effort to another – never giving any of their strategies time [...]

There’s a great scene in Erin Brokovich where hot biker guy asks Brokovich (played by Julia Roberts and her push-up bra) for her phone number. “You want my number?” she snaps. “How about 3? That’s the number of kids I’ve got. And how about 31? That’s how many days late my rent is. And how [...]

Why am I talking about love in the context of business? And no, I don’t mean a passionate office romance. I’m talking about the fact that loving my clients has been a key to success in my business

There are several low/no cost ways to begin speaking.  I would begin speaking free of charge –I did and it was a great way to build my database quickly.  Here are my 4 favorite tips for building your reputation and becoming slightly famous with speaking. Tip #1: Offer a class related to your business at [...]

I’ve worked with a few dozen Fire Starter clients in the past few weeks on career optimizing, transitioning, start ups, reinventions, product ideas, social media strategies and balancing it all without burning it out. (And I adore each and everyone of you. I’m thinking about you all right this minute and smiling hugely, because it [...]

Many of the women who work with me are shy. And so was I when I first left my “job job” and began networking. When I worked in the university setting, the only networking I did was at conferences where we’d share our curriculum and research findings with others and it didn’t feel like “selling.” [...]

I was reading some posts and news about the current crisis and diverse opinions about possible turnarounds, about the consequences in developing countries, some trends and forecasts, different perspectives and evaluations and the usually wizards’ visions of future, some with the Armageddon perspective and others with an optimistic vision of short-time crisis. What make me [...]

Since the end of last century we are seeing global changes never seen in recent or old history. The iron wall collapsing and the Soviet Union breaking in pieces are unique events in history because never a large empire disappeared so smoothly. Coupled with what we saw in China, moving from communism to capitalism. Never [...]

Newspapers and management books propagate employee engagement and its good effects on employees. Employee engagement seems simple to implement on the surface. To engage an employee, the management has to be transparent about its projects and plans and include its associates in a participative decision making process. However, there are a lot of psychological and [...]

When we talk about strategic planning sometimes we associate with paperwork, theories, old school works, a boring and endless task, and so on. But actually planning is a natural and embedded activity that we practice everyday. We plan the best route to go to the office.  We plan when we go shopping. We plan our [...]

Cash is God. Such was the mantra of Venture Capitalists at the TiE Summit 2008 Bangalore. Money has always been expensive, but since the economic meltdown, it has now become more of a rarity. The mechanisms for the financing of small-time start-ups are breaking down. The future looks bleak, if you are looking for funds. [...]

“Who is an entrepreneur?” Scott Cook, Founder & Chairman of Intuit asks. An entrepreneur makes something better or faster or cheaper or all three. These words were representative of the Entrepreneurial Summit conducted by TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) – straight-shooting, practical and unblemished. A grand event at the Hotel Lalit Ashok in Bangalore, the TiE [...]

Owning a business is an audacious task. There are numerous things that need to be completed in a day. It gets so frustrating that owners and fitness professionals question how all will get accomplished. The crux of the issue lies not in the amount of time or lack of time, but organization. The successful entrepreneur [...]

I’m not quite sure why we do it to ourselves but it never ceases to amaze me just how much abuse people are willing to take from their jobs! The stress, the time away from family, the money spent just to be able to work a full day on gas and daycare…and for what? A [...]