Entrepreneurship

Fix Problems When They Are Small

In 1982, George Kelling and James Wilson published an article entitled Broken Windows. The article argued that a crucial and necessary step to keep order in a dangerous neighborhood, was...

Improve Your Business By Traveling More

When Phil Romano founded Macaroni Grill, he traveled throughout Italy to determine what made restaurants so popular. Among other things, he found that in Italy a jug of wine is...

Make Your Business Money While You Sleep In 7 Ways

Think about the way your business runs:  you attract prospective clients, convert them to customers, collect the money, cultivate repeat business, and encourage customers to refer other prospective clients.  Each...

Build Raving Fans in 7 Ways

Marketing is about connecting with consumers. Great marketing, though, is about transforming those consumers into fans, raving fans – people who feel loyalty, and feel invested in your business and...

Great Business Lessons From 8 Military Leaders

The very first business book I ever read wasn’t written by Dale Carnegie or Donald Trump. It was Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Odd choice? Not really, if you...

Defy Gravity

Maybe its the gravity of an industry. Or that relentless march of the same-ol’ same-ol’ at a corporation. It plays out in business after business, time after time. The ways...

Replay: Mike Michalowicz Speaking at Live Event (PDS – March 20, 2016)

Mike Michalowicz, author of Surge, Profit First and other books, shares techniques and strategies to market your business (in ways you never have before). And the cost for these marketing...

When Is The Best Time To Start A New Business?

There is a popular belief about stock market investing - don't try to time it, instead "dollar cost average." I agree. Dollar cost averaging means that the timing of our...

What Do You Want?

Of all the questions I ask, the one that gets the most lies in response is “What do you want?” I found that very few entrepreneurs really know. The most...

The Rise Of The Micro-Enterprise

Micro-enterprise has a pretty nice ring to it, doesn’t it? It even sounds like you’re part of something bigger than your office-in-a-box, because you are! Would you believe that around...

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