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Let Freedom Ring! As Americans we are wired for freedom. Unlike any other country, we were founded on the solid principles that flow from the virtue that freedom brings.
When Jeff & Rich Sloan are in front of live audiences throughout the country, they regularly kick off their presentation with a reminder of how special America [...]

Yep – it’s true. All you gotta do is convince us.
Do you consider yourself to be persuasive? Someone who is able to make your point succinctly and in such a compelling manner that you simply cannot be refused?
Here’s your chance to show off this special ability, and you could win a vacation! During June we [...]

The votes are in, and StartupNation has been deemed honorable by the readers of MarketingSherpa. We are honored to have been selected as one of 5 blogs to receive a special honorable mention designation.
This is pretty cool. We’ve only been blogging for a little over a year and the winner in the category of ‘Blogs [...]

THE 4TH & FINAL WINNER IS…
Our congratulations go to GuruConnector of Lincoln, Rhode Island! You are our the 4th & final lucky entrepreneur to win two free roundtrip tickets on Southwest Airlines through our "Work Hard. Play Harder." Contest.
GuruConnector has been a member of the StartupNation community since its beta launch. It’s clear from [...]

• Confidence
• Boldness
• Strut

These are contagious qualities. Your customers will pick up on it. Your team will rise to it. Your competition will notice it. When you start acting like you belong, you do belong.
One of the ways that entrepreneurs can gather this confident bold strut is to practice and hang out with others who are starting & [...]

But should you? No way! The audience is too small & fragmented. Not everyone listens to audio stuff delivered over the internet. You really don’t have anything to say, anyway. As a matter of fact, the competition from bigger companies with bigger budgets is just too tough. Heck, you might as well just throw in [...]

Hey, speaking of love (see yesterday’s blog post), there has been a conversation going on in the StartupNation community about how music inspires us and is a necessary arrow in the entrepreneurial quiver. We’re dangerously close to launching a new StartupNation Community Podcast that will feature people and conversations happening in the StartupNation community.
One of [...]

We’ve been nominated!
MarketingSherpa, the extremely popular (their articles land in StartupNation email inboxes on a furiously regular basis) and powerful online marketing resource has included the StartupNation blog in their Reader’s Choice Awards 2006.
Vote for us!
But make sure you do it by midnight ET Monday June 26 when the polls close.
(insert politician’s speech-voice here …) [...]

45 days until my wedding. I have learned a great deal about many things during this wedding planning phase of my life. The results of which will likely spawn blog fodder for years to come. One of the things that I love about planning a wedding is that you are constantly engaging with entrepreneurs. The [...]

AND THE 3RD WINNER IS…
Our congratulations go to contestbill! You are our 3rd lucky entrepreneur to win two free round trip tickets on Southwest Airlines through our "Work Hard. Play Harder." Contest.
contestbill is a new StartupNation community member as of this month. We love having you in the StartupNation community and are looking forward [...]