The Hazards Of Home Based Business

Everyone is tired of working for a boss. They don’t like it and they would do anything to get out of it. What they don’t anticipate is how hard it is to be a boss. The amount of time that is required to motivate, to lead, to be creative in helping guide your employees in the right direction, to build a system that will allow everyone to work, and somehow at the same time keeping them on task to achieve these goals. There becomes not enough time and it seems as though you wish there... Read more »

Can You Start A Work At Home Business With No Money?

Working at home has a number of benefits to it over the basic 9 to 5 job. You work for yourself, eliminate commute time and have the ability to set your own schedule. The downside to it is that all the start-up costs are on your shoulders to get the business up and running. However, it is possible to work at home and make money without spending much. While it is not possible to start a home business online for free, it is very possible to minimize the amount your start-up costs are. As soon as you... Read more »

What Bus Are You On?

“The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader’s vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves.” -Werner Erhard In the twentieth century, it might have... Read more »

Important vs. Urgent: The Crisis Trap

I had the luck to be caught up in the early days of the PC industry. Knowing nothing about computers, I stumbled into a fledging software company and soon found myself climbing what passed for a corporate ladder. Those were heady times, as the power of computing moved from huge machines kept behind locked doors to small boxes sitting on the desks of ordinary people. The growth rate of our young company was insane. As events piled on top of one another, time became our most precious resource. We... Read more »

What Traits and Characteristics Make a Successful Entrepreneur?

There are numerous studies have been made of small business managers over the years. Many studies look at traits and characteristics that appear common to most people who start their own businesses. Other studies focus on characteristics that seem to appear frequently in successful owner-managers. First, consider those distinguish characteristics that the person who opens his or her business from the person who works for someone else. Studies investigated successful and unsuccessful owners, some... Read more »

Dream vs. Vision: A Mind-Shift For Visionary Leaders

What is the difference between a dream and a vision? The dreams you see while asleep at night are a metaphor for the kind of thinking that happens when you fantasize while awake. We often call this “day dreaming” or creative imagination. The vision you see when you are awake and looking at reality with your eyes is a metaphor for the kind of thinking that happens when you look to your future with your mind’s eye. The inner world (past, present and future) you see is built from your... Read more »

Lead Generation or Bankruptcy

Whether it is a business lead, insurance lead, life insurance leads, mlm leads, market leads, or a mortgage leads the same principles apply to lead generation. If there isnt any your business will stagnate and maybe you will be registering chaper 11 bankruptcy. Sorry to be so dramatic, but some of you need shaking out of your comfort zone. 1. The first aspect of lead generation is your why? Without a why the how is pointless as you will never be motivated to put the necessary action in. Without... Read more »

Think Before You Leap Into A Small Business

So you want to set off into business for yourself? It’s true you will have no manager. You could set your own hours as well as work on whatever you want to do. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Then again you might want to look before you leap. There are loads of things to deliberate over when starting off a small business. Initially, you need to think about what purpose do you have for desiring to strike out by yourself? Do you only want to be your own boss? Are you yearning for some financial... Read more »

Manage Your Business Cash Flow

In any medium size business, a very high rate of attention is concentrated on the cash flow. Why? Because the cash flow is the heart of the business, and as any other “heart”, it sustains the business. Business owners realize the importance of a positive cash balance in their business. In this positive situation all decision like staff, systems, marketing, finances are much easier to take. The investment has been made, the forecast of profit is very good, and the business already has... Read more »

Lead Generation Does Your Attitude Stink?

Does your attitude stink? The following is a check up from the neck up. 1. On a scale of 1 - 10, how would you rate your attitude and your life, overall, right now? (1 means not so good, 10 means better than great!) 2. What is one thing you think you should be doing that you are not doing right now, to make something in your life better? i.e. lead generation for your business i.e. leads. Whether they are insurance leads, mortgage lead or a business lead. 3. Who, or what, is most in control... Read more »