Microbusiness Mentor

My fellow microbusiness entrepreneur Dawn Rivers Baker has been a long time advocate in the area of microbusiness enterprises here in the United States. Recently we had an opportunity to talk about an aspect of microbusiness entrepreneurship that many of us rely on but can probably reflect more often on: the mental game of business. [...]

We live in a society where status has become everything, and image has leveraging value. We are constantly bombarded with “branding”, especially “personal branding”. “You, Inc.! A Brand Called You! Brand Yourself! Inc. Yourself!” It’s no surprise, then, that too many of us are concerned about how we “look” to other people, more than who we [...]

Jason Eke at Micro Magnate has been reading my business articles for some time and invited me to join his network. Since I recently authored, Want to be Free? First Define Your Freedom , one of the first discussion questions I posed after signing up is: What is Your “Freedom”? Jason’s response inspired me to write this follow-up article. In [...]

I don’t know about you, but I often feel isolated as a small business entrepreneur. Sure, I have hundreds of contacts on LinkedIn and Facebook. Apparently more than 1200 people find me interesting enough to follow on Twitter (give or take a few spambots and p0rnbots). But this isn’t the same as connecting with people in [...]

For all small business owners and entrepreneurs starting out – before you get lost in the “how do I do it” question – here are even more important “foundational” questions to answer and be very clear on! 1. Know exactly why you are going into business, or engage in a specific business-related activity. “I need to [...]

You have probably heard sayings about how successful people have mentors and coaches and are members of mastermind (MM) groups. But I wonder – just as coaches and mentors should come with a label that says “results may vary!” (or even “results not typical” like those infomercial program fine print at the bottom of the screen) [...]

My Outright.com colleague Jennifer Escalona said that a recent study showed business owners who started in these tough economic times fare well in the long haul. This makes total sense to me. It’s very easy to make the leap and get fantastic results when times are lush with opportunities and everyone is flush with cash and we [...]