Ready Entrepreneur

How to Keep Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Alive

Some of us come from cultures where being a businessperson or entrepreneur may be frowned upon. You might hear phrases like: “Get a Real Job,” “You can’t dream your way to paying the bills,” “Your ideas are just… Read More

Be Born With Confidence

You know those people you see who speak freely to strangers, laugh without inhibition, and take on every room as if they own it – all those people have is more confidence than you.  And their confidence, if… Read More

Popularity vs Excellence: A Decision Guide for Rising Entrepreneurs

In the battle for relevance between popularity and excellence, how should rising entrepreneurs market their business? This post discusses how the decision to create a ‘popularity Oscar’ signals our society’s shift from value, quality and excellence to popularity. … Read More

Prepare to Pitch Investors in under Five Minutes: Tips for Rising Entrepreneurs

Are you ready to pitch your business idea in under one minute? You have one minute. One minute to convince someone with money to give you money for your business. Have you prepared? Rising Entrepreneurs have an opportunity… Read More

Rising Entrepreneurs: Is Advertising Worth the Cost?

How to Measure Your ROI when Making Marketing Decisions Big Words vs. Your Business Numbers: Bad advice and wild declarations could be preventing you from maximizing opportunities for your business. Here is a straightforward process for determining, for… Read More

How do you define Real Success as an Entrepreneur?

When people set out with a goal, like to start their own business, the achievement is clear. When the business opens, the goal has been reached. But many entrepreneurs do not feel successful at that moment. Doubt quickly… Read More

They said Doing a Webinar was Easy…27 Tech Tools later I figured it out…

For those of you building an online business using the available tools, and your own brainpower, hang with me for this one… Online entrepreneurship is made possible by the technology. Processes that used to have huge barriers to… Read More

Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?

Who are the entrepreneurs in the world, the people who start businesses? Could it be the most clever or the hustler or the cheapskate or the visionary or the lucky or the hardest working or the liar or… Read More

Jump-Start Yourself

Are you struggling with the idea of starting your own business because you’re afraid it’s too much work? What kind of work do you think running a business involves? Many people say they want to achieve lifestyle freedom… Read More

Global from Your Backyard – Tips for the Globalizing Entrepreneur

ELEVEN GLOBALIZATION FACTORS TO USE IN YOUR BUSINESS The idea of globalization has many people worried about their economic and employment future. After all, globalization means competition with everyone on earth (7 billion people), and those who have… Read More