Archive for the ‘NYEW – Speaker’ Category
Network Your Way to Business Success
Thanks to the web there are a myriad of options available to small business entrepreneurs to connect, network and market their business.
Professional networking sites such as LinkedIn and personal networking sites such as Facebook are helping small business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals connect and network with colleagues, customers and friends. However, as a small business entrepreneur one of the most effective means of marketing has always been in person connecting and networking.
3 Essential Skills of The Entrepreneur Leader
As a small business entrepreneur, you must realize that first and foremost you are the leader of your business.
Once you understand that one of your primary roles in your business is to be not only the CEO but the leader as well, you need to actively develop three critical leadership skills: Flexibility, Humility, and Focus.
Sales is NOT Magic: Understanding the Game
The best sales associates, regardless of industry or length of sales cycle, are always cognizant of one reality when they begin their sales journey: time at their job is finite unless they continually meet their sales targets.
It’s worth reading previous posts in this series before continuing:
7 Confirmed Panels for New York Entrepreneur Week November 2010
It is that time again entrepreneurs – New York Entrepreneur Week (NYEW) will be held November 8th – 12th at Scholastic Auditorium.
Below are 6 panels we will be holding this November. Mark your calendars as early-bird tickets go on sale October 1st!
Is the Economy Creating Happier People?
Yesterday I met a wonderful colleague for lunch. Devin Stewart, the director of the Carnegie Council’s Global Policy Innovations.
We had just finished agreeing to work together on our next Summit in November when I mentioned I was inspired to write this week’s newsletter from one of the best articles I’ve read in a while: But Will It Make You Happy? by Stephanie Rosenbloom, in the New York Times.
He laughed and said he and his wife Ayano read the same article, inspiring them to put their two-year apartment search on hold until they sorted out some things in their lives and careers.
Want to be a Rockstar?!?! Learn How to Bootstrap
For most of us, the concept of launching into a business venture with little or no capital, and trusting to our instincts, and the ability to work miracles on little or no budget, sounds like madness. To the entrepreneur, however, it sounds perfectly reasonable.
In fact, every day, around the world, millions of entrepreneurs decide to go for it – even though they don’t have multimillion dollar backers.
If you can’t find funding for your business, or if you’d rather go it alone, and build your company from the ground up the hard way (sounds crazy again, but many people do) then you’re going to have to learn to bootstrap!
Top 10 Reasons Why You Need a Business Plan Now
A business plan helps you to objectively see every aspect of your future business. It is a critical first step which not only can prevent costly mistakes down the road, but also lay the foundation for amazing success. Read the rest of this entry »
7 Must Have Traits if You Want to be an Entrepreneur
As the global economy undergoes more changes (and it will continue to do so) even more people will choose to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. Changes to corporate mindsets, downsizing and other upheavals in the “safe” world of formal employment are forcing many to embrace entrepreneurship, and start their own small businesses. Add to those the people with the burning desire to “be their own boss” and you have plenty of new entrants into the wonderful, frightening, exciting and exhausting world of being a business owner.
Whatever your reasons for considering entrepreneurship instead of formal employment, there are a few traits you will need to cultivate in order to succeed.
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