Entrepreneurship

Reaching for Goals and SuccessNew Year resolutions and the latest blog post on self improvement areas of small business owners and entrepreneurs are causing a frenzy on the blog. Of course, we all know that setting your New Year resolutions and goals is one thing, achieving them is another.

Today, I am proud to have Steve Schack, founder of BeMyNudge, a new, breakthrough service that helps keep people on track to achieve their goals, to share with us his tips on how to reach your New Year resolutions.

These tips come from Steve’s experience as a professional coach. He knows exactly why people struggle to achieve their goals. In this blog post, Steve is going to share with us 5 points that can help you to achieve your New Year resolutions.

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Last week, we looked at New Year resolutions of 30 small business owners and entrepreneurs for 2010. The response was well received and a lot of readers actually told me that the list inspired them on where to get started with their own business resolutions for 2010.

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Apart from drafting a plan and resolutions to grow your business, you should realize that as an entrepreneur or business owner, you should be improving yourself continuously on different aspects of business.

21 small business owners and entrepreneurs from last week’s blog posts have agreed to share how they plan to improve themselves in 2010 so that they can become a better leader and manager for their business.

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Things can be very frustrating for young entrepreneurs from time to time, especially when faced with touch challenges that always seem to have the power to crush our ideas or even our established businesses.

Some may argue that it is all about the passion that you have for your venture or business. Well, let me help you to get this out of your head. No successful entrepreneur enjoys easy days all year long.

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You’ll get frustrated with things not turning out the way you expect it to turn out, you’ll get tired of doing the same thing over and over again and worse, you’ll might even feel that you are in the wrong business.

Here are some tips that I practise every day to stay committed to my ventures and to stay motivated. By motivated, I mean waking up and can’t wait to work on the tasks that I need to complete for the day.

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The following is a guest post by Robert Tuchman, author of Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dream and Breaking Out on Your Own. In this blog post, he details 8 steps for you to achieve entrepreneurial success.

An entrepreneur needs to be someone who can both visualize and actualize. He needs to be able to visualize something – and once he has that “something”, he needs to see exactly how to make it happen.

In order to make it happen, there are several steps that you as an entrepreneur must take on your way to entrepreneurial success.  Do not just enhance what is, but advance towards what will be: keep the long term in sight.

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The Growing Field of Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurs are a fairly new group in the sub-umbrella of entrepreneurship, entailing individuals who apply business practices to solve larger societal problems such as poverty, malnutrition, or pollution. These entrepreneurs recognize the social problem and thus manage a venture in the attempt to make an overall social change, regardless of the effort it may [...]

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Motivation Tips for Entrepreneurs: Start Networking

Motivation has an direct impact on productivity. Although most entrepreneurs are passionate about what they are doing, they can sometimes succumb to the evil clutches of laziness and boredom just like any other human beings. In this blog post on motivation tips for entrepreneurs, we are going to look at why networking with fellow entrepreneurs [...]

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My Definition of Entrepreneurship, What’s Yours?

I love entrepreneurship. I love monitoring activities in the entrepreneurship world and helping small business owners. I also love interacting with fellow entrepreneurs and this is why I introduced Entrepreneur Interviews. Most importantly, I love how entrepreneurs turn their wildest dreams into reality. But wait! How about the money and profits?

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15 Excuses Stopping Aspiring Entrepreneurs from Starting Out

Every person have the potential to start their own business. When is the last time you are unhappy with a product or service that you are using? Do you occasionally have some big ideas zooming across your mind while you are bathing or going through some daily routine? All the above are business ideas that [...]

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