Jackie Nagel, Synnovatia 
Entrepreneurs are notorious for believing that “if they build it, they will come.” Guess what? That only happens on movie sets and comic books. Don’t sabotage your networking efforts with any of these less-than-compelling behaviors.
Being a member of a networking group or having a presence on social media is only the first step to developing referral relationships that produce results. To make the most of your networking investments, it’s important to devote some quality effort into deepening those important business associations.
As a busy entrepreneur, the time, money, and energy you put into your business is a precious investment. As a result, it’s important that you get a payoff from your business commensurate with your investment.
Work/Life Balance. What is it? How do we, as entrepreneurs, attain it? Why does it seem to elude the smartest of entrepreneurs? And, is it work/life balance we’re after or the outcome of what we assume balance will provide that we desire? No matter what we’re truly after, what we know to be true is that a balanced life is a productive life.
There’s a cost each entrepreneur pays for doing business in today’s marketplace. There is an emotional, physical, financial, and spiritually price paid for the success you achieve. To maximize the return on your valuable resource investment of time, money, and energy, shift from building to growing your business with these ten strategies.
During the past 15+ years, my love of reality TV has waned – as has the interest of my closest friends and colleagues (i.e. my hairdresser). The reality TV of today seems to be of the ‘same thing – different day’ genre. Take American Idol, The X Factor, The Voice, and now, Duets, for instance (Take them, please!). All of them are merely copies of the original.
How often have you heard, ‘Have a positive mental attitude, and you’ll succeed’? Well, there’s a lot more than believing you’ll succeed in business, as Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Stanford University, discovered from her research.
runs from May 20 – 26, 2012 and is the perfect time to take stock of your collective achievements as small business owners, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and owners of microenterprises.