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How to Add Value to Your Target Audience Through Emotional Branding

The following is excerpted from “Style & Substance: How to Create a Compelling Brand: A Guide to Women Who Want to Build Their Confidence, Their Brands and Their Bank Accounts” © Liz Dennery Sanders 2018 ...

byLiz Dennery Sanders

May 5, 2020

6 Female Millennials Who Ditched Their Corporate Jobs for Side Hustles — and Were Successful

We hear stories all the time about entrepreneurs who leave their 9 to 5 jobs in favor of bringing their side hustles to life. But, what about those working in cushy corporate positions? If the...

byDeborah Sweeney

May 23, 2018

Social Entrepreneur Chad Mulder Is Helping Women In East Africa Redefine Their Economic Futures With “ruly”

Entrepreneur Chad Mulder and "ruly" help to change economic futures one photo at a time Chad Mulder was inspired to create ruly after traveling in East Africa with his wife and young boys as volunteers...

byNatasha Clark

January 28, 2015

How To Inspire And Grow Your Team

Small ideas can quickly snowball into lucrative ventures. You might not think it now, but your business could be five steps ahead of your rivals in a few years’ time. However, getting to that stage...

bySuzanne Yates

July 2, 2014

Invention is the Necessity of Mothers

Lately, I’ve been trying to learn new ways to inspire creativity by reading books by leading innovation experts and it hit me like a sack full of Rubik's Cubes: No wonder the greatest product ideas and...

byStartupStella

September 23, 2007

What is your ”Moonrise”?

There's a phrase used among some photographers when they refer to a peer's best shot. They call it a "Moonrise." They're referring to a famous photograph Ansel Adams shot at daybreak on a morning in...

byRich Sloan

June 2, 2007

Do I ‘muse’ you?!

(This entry's by Rich) So many times I've heard the term "muse" referred to in interviews I've witnessed with cool musicians, writers and other artists. A "muse" is defined by the Merriam Webster online dictionary...

byRich Sloan

April 24, 2007

The Power of “You”

Did any of you catch the "Time Magazine" "Person of the Year" feature? The Person of the Year according to "Time" in 2006 was....."YOU". Now sometimes I think "Time" tries to keep things interesting with...

byRich Sloan

January 22, 2007

Cool Company of the Day: Turn Your Head

To coin a phrase, everything old is cool again, and it took a woodworker who thought just like that to come up with our cool company of the day. Tom Bashara started his Colorado Springs-based...

byRich Sloan

August 30, 2006

Commencement message made to order for small business owners

They say youth is wasted on the young, but I think good commencement speeches may be too. Last year, my favorite speech was the address given by Steve Jobs at Stanford. This year, most of...

byJoan Isabella

July 13, 2006

Cool Company of the Day: VocationVacations.com

Alright, those of you who want to start up a business but have no experience doing the actual kind of work that that business entails... this one's for you: Vocation Vacations. They're based in Oregon...

byRich Sloan

May 17, 2006

Cool Company of the Day: ManageYourCellar.com

We love red wine - a lot. It's partly the flavor, partly the infinite variety and nuances of taste, partly knowing the work and thinking that goes into that taste, partly the history and concept...

byRich Sloan

May 12, 2006

Inspiration

My mom died exactly 4 years ago today. She is the sweetest lady I have ever known. Now, after four years, I can think about her and not remember so much the 4-year cancer battle...

byJoel Welsh

May 1, 2006

Autistic teen has lesson for small business owners

They say that luck is where preparedness meets opportunity. And if you need a story to illustrate the point, here's great one. The 17-year-old student manager of the Greece Athena High School basketball team, had...

byJoan Isabella

March 1, 2006

Reinventing yourself and your business

Milton Hershey, David Bowie, and Bill Bradley did it. “Madonna” and “The Donald” have made careers of it. We were talking about entrepreneurs in many fields who reinvented themselves once, twice, or on a regular...

byJoan Isabella

September 14, 2005

The Mudville Nine

“The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day, The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.” The opening lines of Ernest L. Thayer's poem Casey At The Bat...

byJoel Welsh

May 16, 2005

Philly Cheese Steaks

Some of the greatest entrepreneurial inspirations have centered around food. You've probably heard the story of the ice cream vendor who ran out of cups one day and rolled up a waffle to hold the...

byJoel Welsh

May 13, 2005