Entrepreneurship Articles

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Craig Miller @ Tuesday, 1st April 2008 @ 7:24 PM

If you are like most people who are thinking about being a life coach, then you are not doing it for the money. You want to help make this world a better place and that is awesome. However, money is a natural part of being able to help more people with your business and life coaching can be a great way to create multiple streams of income. You don't have to put into action all the income streams I mention. These are just to give you an idea of the versatility of this field, and let you know... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Milton Jayden Harris @ Monday, 31st March 2008 @ 12:51 PM

If you are homemaker or a young mother who wants to earn but does not want the hassle of a full time job, then free work at home job is a good opportunity. Some of the fastest earning opportunities on the Internet today are home-based data entry. Most companies have realized that if they outsource their projects online, they can save thousands of dollars which goes in maintaining office staff for the same. This realization has led to greater demand. Hassle free means that you can d... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Craig Miller @ Sunday, 30th March 2008 @ 9:00 PM

Don't become a life coach unless you know exactly what you are getting into and why. If you want to be your own boss and help hundreds or thousands of people move forward with their lives, then being a life coach may be the job for you. However, there are a few questions you should answer. Sort out your thoughts and plans before you take the plunge. Here's how. 1.Write down WHY you are thinking of becoming a Life Coach. 2.List the key skills that you think are required t... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Dave Kauppi @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 4:23 PM

One of the most challenging aspects of selling a healthcare information technology company is coming up with a business valuation. Sometimes the valuations provided by the market (translation - a completed transaction) defy all logic. In other industry segments there are some pretty handy rules of thumb for valuation metrics. In one industry it may be 1 X Revenue, in another it could be 7.5 X EBITDA. Since it is critical to our business to help our healthcare information technology client... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Daegan Smith @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 11:34 AM

The World Wide Web is a ripe place to do business, which probably explains why millions of people flock online to find out which one presents the best possible internet business opportunities. However, when there are literally hundreds of offers currently available, it's often extremely difficult to determine which ones represent the real thing and which ones are pure exaggerations. The truth about internet business opportunities True, there are scams that present themselve... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Craig Miller @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 7:47 AM

Hey! When you finally decide to go for it, please don't do what Christy did. Christy Brainer, one fine day, left her secure job as a librarian and decided to start up a life coaching business of her own. The young lady was enthusiastic, but her sense of planning was poor. Unfortunately in a couple of weeks she had to start hunting for a new job because her life coaching business shut down even before it could officially kick-off! Well, let's not get into the details of how and w... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Koz Huseyin @ Friday, 28th March 2008 @ 7:11 AM

There is a breed of person - an entrepreneur. And all across the world entrepreneurs and business minded individuals bring to the world there dreams, desires, and ideas and turn them into reality. There exist many in the world today, who seek instant success, a flash flood of money to make them rich today. We see lotteries generating billions in revenues from people seeking that instant rich injection! But, what many don't realize is that most of the people who ever win the lottery, ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Jeff Casmer @ Sunday, 23rd March 2008 @ 8:57 PM

While there are countless marketing methods online, few of them level the playing field the way social bookmarking does. Internet marketers who work at home who want to increase their website traffic, so they can earn money online, have become highly smitten with the concept of social bookmarking. However, with all marketing methods there are dos and don'ts that can greatly affect the final outcome of success. First a brief explanation of what social bookmarking is. Social bookmarkin... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Sen Ze @ Monday, 17th March 2008 @ 8:09 PM

In the fast paced and ruthless world of business and finance, knowledge, experience and information are the ultimate powers. Those who have all the facts will be successful, while those who don't have all the facts may not be so lucky. This is especially relevant when it comes to financial investment areas such as the stock market, bonds, commodities and other similar marketplaces. For example, when deciding whether or not to buy or sell his stocks, an individual will need a lot of i... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Jeff Casmer @ Monday, 17th March 2008 @ 7:42 PM

If you are looking for a means to earn money working from home then to earn money on eBay may what you've been looking for. eBay is still among the top contenders for easy, fast, profitable start up businesses. Success is not guaranteed, it never is, but when compared to other business models, eBay is a reasonable challenge for anyone who wants to earn money at home. With all businesses though, prior research can help increase your odds for success. Many people jump right in b... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Donna Price @ Monday, 17th March 2008 @ 12:50 PM

Did you know that your email address can affect your business reputation, can help build business relationships and have an effect on your business? Think about the email addresses you see coming into your Inbox. Do you have a different impression of a new contact if their email address is @yahoo or @hotmail or @gmail? I know I do. I look twice. Sometimes I delete the email as spam. I also wonder if they really have a business. When you own a business you need to have a web presence... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Steve Tash @ Monday, 17th March 2008 @ 11:59 AM

Business and your personal life have a lot to do with each other. For some, the skills they use in business are not utilized in life. No matter how much you try to separate them, the edges usually overlap. The dynamic business owner who is use to taking action in their business will find that they are, more often than not, able to take action in their life as well. That's right! If you are an action-oriented businessperson this is great news for you. The skills you learn and develop ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Scott Letourneau @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 2:13 PM

A Personal Guarantee is a promise by you and your business partners that you will repay the loan. If your business goes under or you can't send in your payment, this has no bearing on the repayment of the loan to the bank. You and your business personally guaranteed the loan would be prepaid. If you have to sell off your business and your personal assets due to a judgment then so be it. You personally guaranteed it. If this means non business items such as family heirlooms are sold at 10% o... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Richard Cox @ Friday, 14th March 2008 @ 11:44 PM

We spend our lives preparing for a potential disaster, all the while not living life to the full. When a crisis strikes, what do you then do? Either you can let the crisis run, hold onto your position, trying not to change, or you could use the event as an opportunity to change into a direction that supports future outcomes. In the internal world of a human being, we resist change, mainly because we fought so hard to maintain our current position in the first place. Then life come... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Melanie Benson Strick @ Tuesday, 11th March 2008 @ 8:30 AM

Imagine what it would be like if you could run a profitable six, seven or eight figure business and enjoy as much freedom as you desire? For many, the moment you decide to grow your business you simultaneously think of all the hard work ahead. You begin to question the dream and wonder if it's really worth it. That's because you erroneously believe that the only path to making more money is working more. You fear you will have to give up on your precious dreams of spending more ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Melanie Benson Strick @ Tuesday, 11th March 2008 @ 8:27 AM

There I was. Depressed, frustrated, and overwhelmed. Despite my best efforts to have a smooth running ship and organize my event, I realized I had a significant breakdown in my process. I admit, it wasn't the end of the world, but come on, I teach this stuff! It was one week before we went live on our new program, we were preparing the workbooks for production, and I realized, no one ordered the right tabs! Yikes! It got me thinking how a client of mine had shared a great story about... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Donald Mitchell @ Sunday, 9th March 2008 @ 6:41 AM

An enterprise can learn a lot about irresistible forces by deciding to look at trends, even if they have not yet had an impact on the company. To take this offensive action requires overcoming the defensiveness of feeling that you already know all the answers. Having a program based on (1) assuming that you don't know what the irresistible forces are, and (2) being open to learning is the best solution to avoiding defensiveness all together. ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Donald Mitchell @ Sunday, 9th March 2008 @ 12:43 AM

Leaders can set a good example for overcoming defensiveness. Tell people they'll be appreciated and rewarded for bringing forth issues that need to be addressed, and behave that way in reality. If you are consistent in your words and deeds, you'll soon have lots of help in finding irresistible force situations that can be addressed. A CEO promoted one executive very rapidly, putting him in charge of ever larger operations. When asked why, the CEO said that the executive was th... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Donald Mitchell @ Saturday, 8th March 2008 @ 8:34 PM

Drawing the right lesson from an apparent mistake can produce enormous benefits. The fact that you didn't achieve the result you wanted doesn't mean that what you did achieve isn't worth something, maybe even something more important than you started out after. Consider the now-famous story of how Scotch Guard was discovered at 3M. Company chemists had been working on new chemical compounds for a variety of purposes. One day, one of these compounds was accidentall... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Dave Kauppi @ Saturday, 8th March 2008 @ 2:07 PM

If you are an entrepreneur with a small healthcare technology based company looking to take it to the next level, this article should be of particular interest to you. Your natural inclination may be to seek venture capital or private equity to fund your growth. According to Jim Casparie, founder and CEO of the Venture Alliance, the odds of getting Venture funding remain below 3%. Given those odds, the six to nine month process, the heavy, often punishing valuations, the expense of the process, ... more...