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Every entrepreneur knows the hustle of getting tax information together to prepare for end of year tax returns. While in the middle of gathe...
I have long been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell's book Tipping Point, in particular, the "Connectors, Mavens and Salesmen" chapter where he talks...
Whenever we set out to make things better in our lives -- improve our career, grow our business, get in shape, make a bigger impact in the w...
When I first started writing about small business marketing many years ago, one of the first people I heard about was John Jantsch of Duct T...
Many entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars. Such things ra...
I have always been a huge fan of underdogs. Josh Shipp started his life without a safety net. Abandoned at birth by his mother, he spent mos...
When you think about it, navigating your life is a series of negotiations. In the course of a day, you may try to influence: Your new puppy...
There are some people I meet who I instantly feel not just a connection with, but true kinship. Todd Henry is one of these people. I first m...
Many years ago, when I was in the early years of blogging at Escape from Cubicle Nation, I heard about a young man named Dan Schawbel who wa...
Imagine that you are driving down the road and you get a call from your office that a VC is interested in talking to you about investing in...
In 2010, Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson released their first book Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It , based on their experience leading a "Re...
Starting a business can be a huge challenge, with a million things to learn, and the uncertainty of landing your first customers. Once you p...
Popular American business culture says that the more someone "participates" by talking aloud during a meeting or networking event, the more...
A lot of entrepreneurs get all twisted up about branding. Either they think it is some huge, expensive thing that is only for large companie...
This is the week of talent show finals: Dancing With the Stars contestants will be smiling and swirling on stage tonight, and American Idol...
Becky McCray and Barry Moltz have just released their new book Small Town Rules: How Big Brands and Small Businesses Can Prosper in a Connec...
In a departure from my normal entrepreneur interviews, in this podcast, I talk with Yum Brands CEO David Novak who talks about how to create...
Those of you who have been following my work for awhile know that I have been heavily influenced by my coach mentor Dr. Martha Beck. Her boo...
Who has not fantasized about being a professional public speaker? Can you imagine how great it would be to fly to exotic locations and get p...
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Todd Henry, author of the new book The Accidental Creative: How to be Brilliant at a Moment's Notic...
Before I interviewed CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, I asked my Twitter followers "What questions do you have for @sivers ?" Someone asked "Ho...
Two years ago, when I was on my book tour, I had the great fortune of speaking at a management conference in Estonia. There were a number of...
I have been in business for myself for sixteen years. I can't count the number of fun projects, amazing clients and life-changing opportunit...
Few people know the subtle horrors of creative blocks like professional writers. Steven Pressfield is a master at naming, and slaying, the b...
Those of you who have read my blog for a long time or have heard me speak know that I often reference a key moment in Escape from Cubicle Na...
"Didn't you ever want to get up from your desk one day and just walk away, not to go get a latte, but I mean walk away and not come back?" S...
If you had been a fellow passenger on the Green Line train in Washington DC, looking at handsome young lawyer Warren Brown staring out the w...
I had the good fortune to meet Patrick Thompson at my Portland Escape from Cubicle Nation workshop in 2009. At the time, he had left his cor...
Note the rather uncharacteristic post title from my recent blog hack. The humor of the particular spam title and my post image was not lost...
Scott Gerber , twenty-six year old columnist for Entrepreneur and author of the new book Never Get a Real Job: How to dump your boss, build...
In his newest book Black Faces in White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness , (co-authored with long-t...
One of the unspoken stressors for new entrepreneurs is convincing a partner or spouse that starting a business is a smart idea. The rigors o...
To round out the pricing series, I talked to my fellow business coach Sherry Garrity from Corporate Fugitive who illuminates some of the spe...
"There are a lot of business owners out there who are giving their stuff away for free because they don't know enough about pricing. That wa...
Andrea J. Lee, CEO of Thought Partners International LLC has been a huge influence on my approach to business since I read her book Multiple...
So much of what you learn about pricing focuses on the external market. But in the daily practice of being an entrepreneur, much of the conf...
I am thrilled to kick off a week-long series about pricing in small business with an interview with John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing . Jo...
The biggest obstacle to business success is not lack of a great idea, but poor execution. New entrepreneurs, lacking expertise or perspectiv...
While there are many core business practices shared among any type of startup, web-based companies have a unique set of opportunities and ch...
My love of books goes back to when I was about three years old. As soon as I could form the sentence "I want to go to the library," my Mom o...
I think it was fate that Michael Port released his new book The Think Big Manifesto within a few days of the release of mine. Becoming comfo...
I will never forget reading Tom Peter's article The Brand Called You in Fast Company Magazine in August 1997. Growth in Silicon Valley was s...
I spent many years speaking to groups across the country, and even teaching presentation skills to hundreds of salespeople and engineers. It...
Just about an hour ago, Daniel Kehrer asked me (on Twitter of course!): Are you finding lots more folks going freelance because of the econo...
I may have set a new record for the shortest time from concept to production for a podcast: 20 minutes ago, I shared on Twitter that my best...
Who doesn't love the film Rocky or hearing about how J.K. Rowling lived near destitute while her Harry Potter manuscript got rejected by sco...
My original and only business plan for my company was based on a Dr. Suess book . I wish I were kidding. Owning up to my liberal arts major...
Find Part 1 of this interview here . I get a lot of questions about blogging from people who are considering starting a business and are new...
I get a lot of questions about blogging from people who are considering starting a business and are new to the social media world. So does m...
I have a pile of books to read and review next to my bathtub. The Go-Giver: A little story about a powerful business idea sat there for awhi...