Yeah me! I just received notice that The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur is included in Evan Carmichael’s Top 50 Blogs Posts on The Law of Attraction In 2008. If you check the list you’ll see I made numbers 36 and 39. If you look more closely, you’ll notice item number 36 is credited to a Brazilian […]
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Entrepreneurs are as varied as the businesses they build. However, as I’ve been out meeting people at networking meetings and interviewing entrepreneurs while researching my forthcoming book, I’ve noticed a few common traits of successful entrepreneurs. 1. Audacity and Courage Whether it’s the risk of the initial investment, the uncertainty of income in the early
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Last night I attended a different sort of networking event – the Beehive Game. The Beehive is the brainchild of Michael Fletcher of Neworld Coaching (I’ll be interviewing Michael on May 8th as part of my Build Your Business Teleseminar Series). How the Game Works The game is simple. We were broken into “hives” of
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Many entrepreneurs are afraid of declaring a niche. They are afraid if they specialize too much – if at all – they’ll lose business. After all, a niche means focusing on a smaller segment of the entire market. They want to be able to draw from a bigger pool of potential customers. The problem with
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The beginning of May will be three years since I left my full time job and became an entrepreneur. Over these past three years I’ve learned some fundamental truths about being in business.Prior to stepping out on my own, I spent a lot of time researching what I would do for the next phase of
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As a writer I write daily blog posts, weekly newsletters plus comments on other blogs and social networking sites. And that’s just for my own business. Never mind the writing I do for clients – newsletters, websites, articles and more. With all this writing I need to do in any given week, it’s not surprising
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One of the hardest parts of being a solopreneur is getting yourself out of a rut. You know what I mean – you get behind on some projects and start adding more items to your to-do list and before you know it you’re overwhelmed. Or you have a task you don’t really want to do
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Today I am writing about an issue that has me so angry I am shaking. At first it may not seem to be about marketing, but bear with me; the connection will be made clear. My son has been taking an asthma medication for about a year – it’s been very effective in controlling his
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I recently came across the following post: How To Avoid Google’s Duplicate Content Penalty (For Bloggers) The main point of this blog post is if you have a single page that can be reached by: www.blog.com/post www.blog.com/post/ http://blog.com/post http://blog.com/post/ Google reads these pages as four separate pages – each with duplicate content. As a result,
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If the main purpose of your blog or website is to increase sales then you should make it easy for people to contact you. Are you?Too many people hide their contact information on their site. If a prospect has to search for a way to reach you, they may just move on to someone else.
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