Category: Business Training
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Assets and Skills
#1 asset for successful entrepreneurs is the team they build around themselves. The #1 skill you need to possess to be that successful entrepreneur is: Understanding how to use energy to create action in your business. And while this skill takes moments to learn, it can take years to master. What is Energy? It is…
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Not a “Numbers Person” and Running a Business?
During one of the New York City FastTrac programs to help existing NYC businesses recover from today’s economy, a woman I will call “Christine” was hit very hard in her business. To the point where she has been living out of her car. She had a successful design company but various people involved in the…
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What Social Media Is and Isn’t In Business
Recently my wife was holding my hand and looking at me, asking if I was OK. As I stared at her bleary-eyed she said, “Since I’ve known you, I have never seen you in a five hour business meeting. What happened?” Good question. I couldn’t really explain it, and later started to grasp what I…
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Smart Capital: Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Wall Street!
Last week we had a great call with close to 300 signups! Smart Funding-Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Wall Street During the interview, we covered: Why Wall Street and banks are not equipped to fund small businesses What are the five crucial components that go into a smart capital raise How entrepreneurs can take matters into their…
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8 Steps to Achieving the UnReasonable
Bill McKibben is a serious environmental advocate. As a founder of 350.org. he has helped coordinate 15,000 rallies in 191 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’ McKibben and 350.org have stepped are now…
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Where Change is REALLY Coming From
It is hard not to get wrapped up in the energy from Obama’s 2nd Inauguration this week in D.C. The speeches, promises, hopes, and agendas all around changing where things are today. Yet perhaps our excitement is ill-placed. To hang our hats on one man’s team to make the types of changes many of us…
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Five Steps: Get and Stay Organized… Quickly and Easily
I don’t consider myself an organizer-type person. But recently enough clients have asked me how I do it all and seem to manage it with ease I started sharing my personal system. The dozen or so that have tried my Bucket System reported their productivity and work-life balance improved 50-75% in just a few weeks.…
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How to Manage the Too Busy to Fail Syndrome
I did not want to write this week’s ezine. Being on the “road”, raising a round of capital for the company, an investor meeting today to get ready for, finish negotiations on a TV show partnership, get ready for meetings, coaching and mentoring at Columbia University tomorrow, teaching in the evening… blah, blah, blah. It…
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How’s YOUR QA?
I woke up and nearly jumped off the table. A stranger was putting needles into me. Still confused, as I must have fallen asleep yesterday while waiting over 30 minutes for my acupuncturist to start working on me, I asked the stranger why they were doing this and not my acupuncturist. She stammered, “she’s busy…
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Top 5 Ways to Get That Big Meeting
“Watch this, Stefan.” John then picked up the phone and called a CEO of a Fortune 50 company, whom he did not know. When the CEO’s administrator answered, John said, “I’ll be in Paris next week and about 5 minutes from your office. I’d be happy to stop by and speak to [the CEO] for…