The Savvy Entrepreneur

So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur: How to decide if starting a business is really for you by Jon Gillespie-Brown I’ve had this on my shelf for a while, mostly because I didn’t think it would apply to you or I. It is primarily written for people who are in a job, thinking about [...]

Loral Langemeier, leading woman expert in the space of “Making Money,” will be conducting free webinars during February and March. I thought Tuesday’s webinar, Unleash the Entrepreneur Inside You!, may be of interest to you. Here’s the description directly from her site: “Most new businesses fail, not necessarily because there was anything wrong with the [...]

I get calls and emails from entrepreneurs just about each week, asking me to help them understand where they are going wrong, or to warn them of what pitfalls to avoid. Here are the mistakes that top my list: 1. Spending too much money on how-to guides, courses and programs. Remember, the sales copy for [...]

I’m a major sucker for reality shows like CBC-TV’s Dragons’ Den, a show where entrepreneurs pitch a panel of five potential investors, for a stake in their company. I guess I like to live vicariously through the Dragons’ who get to tell awesome entrepreneurs how great their idea is, and tear into the ones that [...]

It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are [...]

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein

Here’s a quickie post to share with you a great article I found in The New York Times: If You’re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — Warren Buffet It’s OK to not know what you’re doing, as long as you understand the consequences. To me, taking a risk means the opportunity to learn something new!

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. — Henry Ford

You’ve heard me say that I truly appreciate receiving feedback, because it helps me grow and improve in my business. By creating monthly surveys, I’m getting more feedback than I ever expected to receive, which is great, because I’m discovering new ways to improve and how to align myself on some of my projects in [...]

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi