Strategies
9 steps to build the best work team
Building a good team is crucial to your success as an entrepreneur. Here's the formula: 1. Look for real talent. Hire people who are smarter and more experienced than you. This may be seen as obvious, but I have come to realize that it is not. Maybe you want to feel like the smartest member and ...
9 habits of smart entrepreneurs
To quote Winston Churchill, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." This message couldn't be more true for the founders. Every entrepreneur seeks to be successful, but the sad reality is that many of them fail. The difference between success and failure comes from ...
5 entrepreneurs who love risk
"He who does not risk does not win" is often the philosophy of successful entrepreneurs. Calculated risks require courage and intelligence, but also the ability to accept the uncertainty that comes with it. Risks do not always work well, nor do they generally work as you first imagined; therefore, you must be able to ...
10 lessons from comics for your business
Superheroes occupy the screens and the billboards in the streets. The spotlight in the world of cinematography is on prequels, sequels, spin offs, and character crossovers from DC Comics, Marvel, and other publishers. This week, the euphoria for the comics will grow even more, as Comic-Con 2014 takes place in San…
4 lessons to win with humor
Last fall, Carl Sciortino, candidate for the United States Congress for the state of Massachusetts, uploaded a frank and funny video on YouTube titled Father's Son. Blurring the line between traditional political advertising and content marketing, it tells a cute and funny story in little more than a ...
4 tips to earn customer trust
No one is going to buy from you if they don't trust you. That can be a challenge for entrepreneurs, as they must build a relationship from scratch, unless you are an IBM or Mercedes Benz salesperson leaning on their firm's reputation. Confidence improves over time. If you have ...