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I woke up this morning–and “woke” is a very relative term–to find a nice present from our dog on the living room floor, a leaking refrigerator, hungry children, and a husband who perpetually can’t find his socks.
My main urge was not to start working on my business, my intent was to crawl back in bed [...]

If you haven’t had a lot of experience doing media interviews, you may have butterflies in your stomach or even feel sick!
To overcome your nerves and improve your chances of giving a great interview, here are a few quick tips:
1. Prepare.
This is pretty obvious, but the more you prepare in advance, the more confident you’ll [...]

I’m not much of a fan of Ning but this The Mistake Bank site seems like an interesting site.
The Mistake Bank is a place to share stories of mistakes people have made in their lives and careers. After you sign up, you can contribute videos or blog posts recounting your mistakes that you think others could learn [...]

As if we didn’t know it, the New York Times wrote today,
“Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for expansion and hiring.”
Yep, tough times. We all are well aware of the fact that everyone’s getting more conservative including customers, vendors [...]

Your employees are not mind readers or fortune tellers, and your business is not a free-form venue for experimentation, or a place where individual preference based on mood, time of the day, or random circumstance can rule the day. Your purpose and methodology must be clear, concise, consistent, and understood by everyone involved. Aim for [...]

Economists and the media may debate whether we are in a true “recession” or not, but that doesn’t change the fact that sales are down and consumers are pulling back.  I’m certainly not excited about this, but I’m not traumatized either.  The economy is full of ups and downs and we obviously can’t have the [...]

To one of my previous posts on the value of education vs/or training…
I wonder if education is a system that trains people to do simply repeat history, to conform - to rinse, wash, repeat. New ideas and true innovative thinking seem to appear at “the edge,” “the fringe” - people on “the cusp.”
What do you think?

If you’ve been a maverick entrepreneur for awhile, there’s a chance you may have lost touch with the reasons you sloughed the corporate shackles and struck off on your own.
It’s road trip time. Time to pay a visit to how the other half–or three-quarters–live. Let me take you there.
I went to pick up my husband at his office [...]

On Tuesday, I introduced you to fellow entrepreneur Jill Exler. When Jill had a challenging time publishing her own book, she decided to create a business to help others.
Today, self-published authors can sell their books at www.jexbo.com, and readers can find unique books and communicate directly with authors.
Jill used publicity to help start [...]

Being an entrepreneur with a startup company is a lot like playing sandlot baseball as a kid. Growing up on E. 199th Street in Euclid, Ohio we could often get 6 or 7 guys for a summer baseball game in the street, but we couldn’t field an entire team. That meant we’d have to choose [...]