The Best Advice for Disabled Parents Ready to Begin a New Venture
Image courtesy of Pixabay The Best Advice for Disabled Parents Ready to Begin a New Venture by Marcus Lansky Founder, Abilitator.biz Are you considering building your own small business? Being your own boss can mean more flexibility and independence,...
Capitalizing on Motherhood
Ruth Handler and the Mompreneur Movement Image courtesy of Robert Whitehead 2005 Historically, motherhood and career have not necessarily gone well together. Women have had to make an either/or choice: career or child. In no other way is this more represented than in...
Steve Jobs
The Path He Blazed Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes...the ones who see things differently—they're not fond of rules...You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only...
Telling Your Brand
Storytelling in the Post-Advertising Age Branding is no longer about clever slogans or catchy jingles. It isn’t your logo and marketing materials. Gone are the days when companies could count on the advertising-as-interruption model to imprint their brand identities...
So what's wrong with what Mitt said??
A gotcha moment? Surely you would think so to hear the breathless headlines in the mainstream media. As background, here's the gist of what Mr. Romney said: His campaign is not going to target and devote resources to the 47% of the U.S. public that is not paying...
Social Media Marketing in a Nutshell
What it is and How to Use it At its very simplest, social media marketing means using real-time communication tools to create a social presence and an identity for your business via the modern-day version of word-of-mouth. Social media tools function by luring...
Poise
I feel bad about bringing people down with yesterday's harsh dose of reality. Folks, we need to keep laughing to maintain our sanity. A sense of humor is among the most important survival skills. And in order to prosper, we need to survive first. So, listen up...
Why You Are Feeling Poorer
Being an election year, there's lots of focus on the unemployment rate being over 8%. (Without the politically driven manipulations, it's actually over 11% and over 20% are less than fully employed...but I digress...that's the subject for another post). Across the...
Chip Conley
Rebel Entrepreneur There have been many articles, books, and references written with the “how tos” of entrepreneurship. In most of them, the advice is pretty standard; many will say you need to gain experience in a field before you can start a business. Others advise...
Getting Your Discipline On
Entrepreneurs and The Art of Self-Discipline “The first and best victory is to conquer self.”-Plato For entrepreneurs, self-discipline is everything. It is an essential art we must master. Being an entrepreneur means being able to turn ideas into action. Ideas...
Sweet Failure
Channeling Sam Walton’s Brand of Perseverance As an entrepreneur today, you must filter through tons of info. Just Google “entrepreneur,” “start-up,” or “how to run a business” and you will quickly see that everyone and his grandmother seems to have a theory (and a...