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How to Handle Career Uncertainty: Take Control of What You Can Change Now
Excerpted from The #Pace Process for Early Career Success. Copyright © 2022 by Mark Zides. Reprinted with permission from Armin Lear Press. All rights reserved. What can I do now? Not tomorrow, not next year, but now? We can’t predict the future, and we can’t have complete control over things that haven’t happened yet. Isn’t it funny we...
5 Vital Traits You Must Have to Thrive as an Entrepreneur
You are finally ready to go out and launch the business of your dreams. Congratulations! That is so exciting that you are on the course to be your own boss. Now, just like how certain traits (such as self-driven, goal-oriented, and accountable) help employees thrive while working for companies, there are a number of traits...
Entrepreneurs: How to Focus Ruthlessly and Win in 2022
New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. When something’s not working perfectly to their standards (or worse, fails), they take it personally and don’t know how to move on to better iterations after the setback. But that’s what startup life is all about. To win, you have to learn how to...
9 Reasons Why Your Customer Isn’t Buying (And How To Fix Them)
You've built the product, perfected the service, tweaked the website, and refined the funnel. But no one is buying; these successful entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles explain why and how to fix it. From L to R: Lewis Howes, Simon Grabowski, Chris Harder, Barbara Corcoran, Sweta Patel, Vinicius Aschidamini, Roy McDonald, Jason Hall, Jonathan Gilinski MARY...
Summon Your Inner Alpha: 7 Ways Business Leaders Can Outwit the Competition
Alpha traits are key to leadership success. Business leaders can learn from these top predators how to outsmart the competition and never cede ground. In recent years, coyotes have made themselves at home across the United States, Canada and Central America. In the community and neighborhoods near Boston where I live, people see them almost...
Ask the Experts: Armando Ojeda, Angela Barbash, and Marcia Dawood on StartupNation Radio
On this week's episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff speaks with StartupNation's subject matter experts from SCORE Mentors: Armando Ojeda, Angela Barbash, and Marcia Dawood. Tune in to the full StartupNation Radio show with Ojeda, Barbash and Dawood to learn about the SCORE Mentors program and hear about each mentor's unique experiences: This episode is co-hosted...
12 Midwest Startups Offering Mental Health Benefits
Are you looking for a healthy work environment with a job that offers mental health benefits? As the mental health crisis continues to worsen and companies continue to work remotely, startups are rethinking their benefits. Free snacks and Ping Pong just aren’t cutting it in a remote world. Startups are offering better benefits than ever when...
From Our Founder: Creating Opportunity During Times of Crisis
As entrepreneurs and business owners, we do our best to plan for the future. But no matter how much we try to prepare ourselves for the unexpected, none of us could have predicted, nor prepared for, the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis it has created. Roughly eight months into the pandemic, our plans—both...
WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Real Estate Expert Renee Acho on Paying Rent During COVID-19 (Episode 24)
What do you do if you're a small business and you can't pay rent this month due to COVID-19? What do you do if you're a landlord and you need those rents coming in? On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff offers advice to any small business owner struggling to pay his or her rent...
7 Business Influencers to Follow on Social Media in 2020
Launching a successful startup takes a lot of work, and learning how to navigate the waters of entrepreneurship can be difficult — especially if it's your first business. As such, it can be wise for aspiring entrepreneurs to seek help and mentorship from others who have already built successful businesses. While it's not always possible to...
Hustle Overdrive: Start Sustaining Your Business Instead
In today’s entrepreneurial culture, hustling is a source of pride for many. But the question must be asked: Should we be proud of hustle? Is there any other way to maintain success? And if hustle is a good thing, at what point does it go overboard and become workaholism? It’s not that we haven’t yet...
Detroit Startup Week feat. John Henry and Chris Lambert
This episode of StartupNation Radio is sponsored by DBusiness, Siren PR and Dell Small Business This week, we took StartupNation Radio on the road! In honor of Detroit Startup Week, we livestreamed 16 interviews within two days from the Lear Innovation Center, sitting down with renowned entrepreneurs, passionate thought leaders and innovators, all of whom have...
StartupNation Radio Broadcasts from Detroit Startup Week with Co-Host R.J. King (Day 1)
Watch StartupNation Radio's broadcast from day one of Startup Week Detroit! Joining your host, Jeff Sloan, is DBusiness Magazine editor, R.J. King. Together, the two co-hosted a day-long show packed with content from renowned entrepreneurs, passionate thought leaders and innovators, all of whom have a keen entrepreneurial grit and a passion for the city of...
Using ADHD Productivity Hacks to Work Faster Than Normal [Book Excerpt]
The following excerpt is adapted from "Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain" by Peter Shankman, published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2017 by Peter Shankman. While I advocate using some kind of assistant, I also know that I...
The Leadership Gap: The Simplest Way for to Gain Loyalty That Lasts [Book Excerpt]
The following contains an excerpt from “The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness" by Lolly Daskal with the permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group. Copyright © 2017 by Lolly Daskal. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying...
4 Traps To Avoid When Selling Your Company
Business owners have been known to refer to due diligence as "the entrepreneur's proctology exam." It's a crude analogy, but a good representation of what it feels like when a stranger pokes, prods and looks inside every inch of your business. Most professional acquirers will have a checklist of questions they need answered if they’re considering...
6 Ways Stoicism Can Help Business Entrepreneurs
By Petrina Coventry, University of Adelaide With the increasing swirl of interest around mindfulness, resilience and innovation, we can’t forget that there are many who have trodden this path before us with important lessons we can borrow. Stoicism is the branch of ancient western philosophy that focuses on mindfulness, resilience, creativity and more, all of which...
Rethinking Engagement in a Digital World
I was recently interviewed by Joel Pilger of RevThink on what I would tell agencies looking to get into TV. In listening back, I might sound overly pessimistic about traditional linear media. Let me be clear, I am a TV guy. I have spent almost two decades developing, selling and producing television. So no, I do not think that TV...
How to Live a Life of Purpose
The purpose of life is living a life of purpose. The power of this particular mantra came to me last week on a call. I was talking to a potential client about their brand and their goals. I asked, "What's your purpose?" They laughed and said, "To make money!" Then they turned serious, saying, "Actually, I've...
How to Avoid the “Shiny Penny” Marketing Mentality
One of the benefits of having a child is getting to go to animated movies without any guilt or questioning from contemporaries. “Oh … I would have much rather gone to that new (insert former SNL cast member here) movie, but my kid wanted to go to see that new animated film.” True, these films really are...