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Small Business Strategy 101: Believe You Can Do It

April 30, 2010

When I first started my marketing communications firm in 1984, I didn’t think about whether I could do it or not, I just knew the wolf was at my door. The large corporation I worked for was leaving town and I wasn’t going with it. I needed work and I needed it fast, so I [...]

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Are You a Good Leader? A Leadership Quiz Part 2

April 27, 2010

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
Are you a leader?
Just because you own a business or have a team doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a leader. All of us have known someone in a leadership position who wasn’t really a leader, [...]

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Being a Good Leader: What Does That Mean? Part 1

April 27, 2010

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” — Vince Lombardi
So what does it mean to be a leader? What does it take, and do you have what it takes?
I put [...]

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You Have to Be Crazy

June 26, 2009

For 18 years I thought I was crazy.
I owned my own business and there wasn’t anything in the world I wanted to do more, but I thought I was crazy to do it. And I thought it was crazy they let me do it. All I knew was that it kinda felt like the [...]

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Everyone Isn’t Like You: Entrepreneurs Are Different

May 23, 2009

My dad always told me I could be whatever I wanted to be, but I’m not sure he realized how much I took his words to heart. Ahead of his time, Dad encouraged his daughters to seek careers that would allow them to support themselves — meaning, getting jobs in any field a man could. [...]

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“The Boss Myth:” 3 Stories You Bought Into About Being Your Own (and Others’) Boss

May 18, 2009

Okay, you’ve got your own business. You started it, like most entrepreneurs, so you could have more control over your own destiny, more freedom to do what you’re passionate about, and to “be your own boss.”
Find out anything surprising about being your own boss? Or about being a boss out there on your own, period?
I [...]

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How to Make Double the Money in Half the Time

May 18, 2009

Why did you go into business for yourself? Was it because:

you had an idea that you couldn’t stop thinking about, an idea that you wanted to bring into reality?
you could do something really well, better than anyone else, and you wanted to do it all the time?
you were tired of doing things [...]

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Why Breakthrough Business?

Because when you started your business, you had a passion for something, and it probably wasn't the mechanics of the day-to-day management and operations of your company. You just wanted to do your THING!

And now, as your company is growing, it's getting harder and harder to find the time to get back to that "thing," or maybe even to remember what that "thing" was like. Your business may have swallowed you up!

But where are the resources for the little guy, the entrepreneur who's serious about business and could be doing a bang-up job if only she (you) could get away from the "stuff," but can't seem to because everyone needs you, nothing seems to get done without you (or at least it doesn't get done correctly), and there aren't enough hours in the day to get to all the things that end up, for some reason, on YOUR desk?

The answer is, there aren't any. Until Breakthrough Business.
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