Ready Entrepreneur

Start Your Business Around Your 9-to-5 Job

Some of you have asked, ‘how do I balance becoming an entrepreneur while still keeping up my 9-to-5 job?’ For the answer, I go back to a basic question: What are you trying to achieve with your life?… 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

Prepare to be a Business Owner

The word “preparation” means the action or process of making ready or being made ready for use or consideration. If you are thinking about starting your own business, where do you stand on your preparation for the job?… Read More

Ten Essential Tools to Help You Get Started as an Entrepreneur

  When you begin planning your business. You may be focused on your business idea, plan, set-up and launch date. But how do you do your focusing? Are you putting the ideas in the notes feature on your… Read More

Ten Eclipse-Inspired Reminders to Use in Your Business

Just when you may have thought the eclipse was an excuse to have a few hours off, take a second look at how the event in its totality brought home some important reminders for anyone running a business…. Read More

The You CEO

The idea of a CEO usually brings up the vision of some kind of muckity-muck who wields enormous power and influence over well…her domain? But what does the term CEO actually mean? Literally, CEO stands for Chief Executive… Read More

Freedom, Satisfaction, Security – Do you like those words?

Three Reasons Why You Should Get your Business out of your Head and into the World “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” That is a line credited to motivational speaker… Read More

Four Steps to Finding your Business Idea

The idea of owning your own business conjures up an image of personal independence, professional freedom, and financial security. Many people want to get there, but struggle with uncovering the world beating idea that will take them to… Read More

Entrepreneurs, What Does Jack Ma’s One Million Jobs Plan Have To Do With Your Economic Future? Time To Go Global?

Imagine you open your specialty store on a quiet street in a peaceful town like Boise, Idaho, and from the first day your customer base equals seven billion people. That’s billion with a “B.” Why? Because you sell… Read More