For many small business owners, including those in the tourism business or those catering to warm weather activities, summer means “go” time. You wait all year for this busy time, and you don’t want to miss any business because of lack of preparation. In fact, you may be looking to add some extra …
Entrepreneuring Articles and Interviews (category)
As an entrepreneur, you most likely wear many hats in your day-to-day work. Figuring out how to juggle all of the tasks you have to do, while still maintaining a life outside of work can be a challenge. Entrepreneuring articles focus on you, the entrepreneur, and how you can strengthen your areas of weakness when it comes to business and keeping a healthy work-life balance.
5 Steps to Making Better Decisions
This article is one in the multi-part series entitled The Entrepreneurial Mindset. Experts suggest that the average person makes thousands of decisions a daily. This includes deciding things such as what to wear, what and how much to eat, whether or not to answer a phone call or text, and …
7 Reasons You Should Take a Vacation Even If You Don’t Have the Time or Money
About two months ago, my husband and I were sitting on the couch one night, both exhausted from our fuller than full schedules. I had been working seven days a week most weeks for almost four months and he was doing the same with school, striving to finish his degree before returning to work. In …
How One Woman Turned a Tragedy Into a Small Business Opportunity
Just seven short years ago, Gena Daniels wasn’t thinking about owning her own business. In fact, she was more than happy reading meters for a local electric company, tending to her family, and enjoying a dirt bike ride or off-roading with her Jeep through the trails. Then, in one life-changing …
How Knowing What You Want Can Help You Create a Better Business
This article is one in the multi-part series entitled The Entrepreneurial Mindset. I’ve always admired people who know exactly what they want in their professional life. Like the little boy who knows he wants to be a fireman when he grows up and actually becomes one. Or the little girl who has …
Are You Running a Business or Changing the World?
Take a moment right now and think about what made you want to start your own company. Was it to change your own world by earning a decent enough income to support yourself and your family, or was your goal to alter the world around you, positively changing it for generations to come? Well, when …