Category: Business Training

  • Six Steps To Building Your Dream Team (With Almost Nothing)

    Six Steps To Building Your Dream Team (With Almost Nothing)

    Team building is the first thing experienced investors will look at. Yet most entrepreneurs do not know how to build a team on limited budgets. Here are the six proven steps to take.

  • Entrepreneurs: You are NOT Alone — How to Build A Team Around Yourself

    Entrepreneurs: You are NOT Alone — How to Build A Team Around Yourself

    In early 1940, Winston Churchill was alone in facing Hitler. France surrendered almost immediately, as did most of the rest of Europe. And the Nazis at that time seemed unstoppable. And Churchill knew he was in trouble. Because of his loud anti-Hitler and anti-Nazi speeches and condemnation, he knew it would not be long before…

  • Which are YOU:  Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner?

    Which are YOU: Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner?

    Helping others achieve an “ah-ha” moment is usually a gratifying experience in my line of work. Let alone 9 people, simultaneously. During a day’s session training a team at a large technology company that works with small businesses, they all of a sudden realized some times they were actually helping their clients be something they…

  • Pros and Cons to Marketing Your Company as Green

    Late last week I found myself in New Jersey in a deep conversation with a friend, Ron Bergamini, CEO of Action Carting, a waste management company.  Their several hundred employees and 100+ trucks on the streets makes them one of the largest in NYC. The conversation turned to marketing his company and how to promote…

  • How to Manage Your Uncertainty

    Last week I was making my rounds with several clients, each involved in the alternative energy space. A couple of the companies are doing extremely well, with one successfully raising a round of capital.  One is struggling. Even so, they are all concerned with the incredible uncertainty in the alternative energy space. Not only because…

  • What Can Small Business Learn from US Debt

    On Monday, as the stock markets were continuing to crash at lightning speed, someone asked me my thoughts. I told them welcome to the crash of 2011! And while the 16% drop in 10 days is only the third time that has happened in 4 decades (also 1987 and 2008), this volatility may be continue…

  • #1 Strategy to Achieve Financial Success in Biz

    #1 Strategy to Achieve Financial Success in Biz

    Tuesday I was on the phone with a client, deep in conversation about their company’s financial outlook just before it happened. At first I thought it was a subway going past.  Then it got more intense. Before I knew it my whole house was swaying.  As I quickly hung up with my client, I realized…

  • Really Ready to Raise Capital for Your Small Business?

    Really Ready to Raise Capital for Your Small Business?

    This week I started facilitating another FastTrac NYC class of about 30 entrepreneurs. I like starting this intense seven days of training with a powerful guest speaker.  A good friend, David Kistner, was kind enough to visit the class. What was supposed to be about 60 minute presentation ended up with me having to kick…

  • #1 Way To Get a Job

    #1 Way To Get a Job

    Occupy Wall Street has gone viral.  As of today, “occupations” in solidarity are now in dozens of US cities, from Austin, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Denver, Illinois, Knoxville, Portland (Maine), Tennessee, Texas, as well as more than 20 other locations in California and Florida. Demonstrations are also taking place in Australia, Canada, Japan, and Mexico.  And most…

  • So You Want to Be #1… at What?

    So You Want to Be #1… at What?

    Here in the United States, it seems to be so important for us to be #1. Most of our politicians constantly want us to fix this or that so we can “be #1 again.” But exactly what is it we want to be the best at?  More importantly, is what we think we want to…