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Women Entrepreneurs Setting the Pace
Women today, have a much more entrepreneurial, gutsy spirit, than they did 40-50 years ago. I have been a successful entrepreneur since 1986, and I have seen for myself the number of women that take bold step into the world of entrepreneurship, often driven by the desire to spend more time with their families, and these women are setting the pace for what is possible, for women and men alike.
Leading-edge entrepreneurial trends you should know about
You have created your vision board and now that you have visualized, you want to realize that “larger” life? Is this you? To upgrade your life, from point A to point Z (not just B), you need to be aware of these 3 leading-edge entrepreneurial trends.
What is an entrepreneur?
Do you ever wonder what an entrepreneur is? Do you wonder what the difference is between an entrepreneur and a businessman? If so here is an account of what sort of person an entrepreneur is and what motivates him or her to succeed.
A Business Mentor Is Important For A Successful Entrepreneur
When you first start your business everything can be quite confusing. Having an experienced mentor guide you can make the difference between a successful venture and a failed endeavor. There are many pitfalls and problems that are difficult to work out on your own.
Bootstrapping Basics Entrepreneurs Need To Know
Practical assistance for entrepreneurs on how to start and grow a business by bootstrapping along with the importance of utilizing a small business mentor to assure success.
Entrepreneurs- How to Start-Up an E-Commerce Business on a Budget
Many entrepreneurs start e-commerce businesses due to the low initial costs involved. No store lease to pay for, good quality web designers will work for very reasonable fees and you can target your specific demographic will relative ease. Most e-commerce start-up entrepreneurs still need a steady income, but they lack start-up funds, and have little to no retail experience or technical expertise.

Entrepreneurs Make The Most Of Your Business Mentor Relationship
Finding a great mentor is one of the best ways to learn, to get feedback, and to take your start-up or small business to the next level. Here are ten tips for making the most of your mentoring relationships.

Ethos Mentor - The Ultimate Success Strategy for Serious Entrepreneurs
Ethos Mentor provides entrepreneurs with affordable one on one mentoring, business coaching and capital raising services so they can launch and grow their businesses. We help business owners at every stage, from how to start a business, start-up and growth stage, to established firms seeking large capital funding and expansion.

Women – The Innovative Entrepreneurs
In America, women start 424 new enterprises every day that’s more than twice as many as men. These mothers of invention have nurtured their creative ideas outside the corporate box.
Financing 101 for Entrepreneurs - Debt vs. Equity or Both?
Small business owners can choose from two basic types of financing- debt and equity. There are advantages and disadvantages of each type that may be used for different purposes.

How A Business Mentor Works With An Entrepreneur
My mother used to remind me that all relationships take time. Friendships, marriages, and even business relationships all require a little TLC and room to grow so that they can find their way to success. This is especially true for a business mentor relationship.

How to Fund a Small Business- The Entrepreneur Start-Up Money Hunt
Young and mature entrepreneurs alike, often get creative in finding money to start their own small business. Having the assistance of a business mentor can greatly improve your chance of success.
How To Increase Your Chances For Getting An SBA Loan
Many of our start up business clients at Ethos 360 come to us with basic questions on how to get financing from the SBA. There are a few things to have in your back pocket (and on the tip of your tongue) before going to them in order to increase your chances of getting approved.

How To Market Your Small Business For Little Money
Every business owner wants to use time-proven, effective marketing tactics that build strong brand awareness and increase its clientele. Small business owners today may not necessarily have the tools to spend an insane amount of money on television advertising, radio spots, or other costly advertising avenues such as billboards emblazoned with state-of-the-art graphics.
How To Pitch Angel Investors And Venture Capitalists
I hear from a great deal of my clients that they're looking for the secret to the, "best pitch to investors." To me, this always sounds like looking for the secret to, "the best pitch to ask someone to prom." There is no perfect method. There is no secret. At the end of the day, all you can do is show up and do your best. There are, however, things you should remember to do and things you should definitely avoid.

How To Start A Business For Under $5000
In today’s economic environment, individuals with entrepreneurial mindsets are exploring new ideas for businesses that will not only survive in a recession, but will also thrive. The key to starting a new business is maximizing its resources while remaining lean in operations.

How To Start A Successful House Cleaning Business
A house cleaning business can be started on a shoestring budget so you can get up and running relatively quickly and start making money. Service based businesses are often some of the best start-ups.
How to Start an Online Business for the At Home Entrepreneur
Some people believe it easy to start an online home business, but without having a handle on what is needed to make money online, they will fail like the rest of the 99% that try building a home business on the internet. There are things you must know and 'tricks of the trade' that will make the difference between success and failure.
Keys To A Powerful Business Plan
Whether you are planning to start a brand-new business, expand an existing company, or get financing for a business venture, you will need to write a business plan. There’s no way around this unless you have a dead rich uncle who just left you his two-car garage full of thousand dollar bills.
Leadership Secrets For Your Sales Team To Get Through The Down Market
Sales, sales sales. It's what makes your business, any kind of business, become and stay successful. What was once taken as a given in 2007-2008 no longer exists. It's time to discover and reward talent and manage your team as effectively as possible to maxmize potential. These are the times when talent shines and leaders thrive.

New Website, Sprowtt, Has Arrived To The Benefit Of Cleantech Entrepreneurs
Cleantech entrepreneurs receive assistance in obtaining financing and networking to get their deals done with the help of this excellent new website.
Online Entrepreneurial Opportunities During the Economic Downturn
Remember- Fortunes are built during the bad times and cashed in during the good. If you think a recession is a bad time to start a business, think again. An entrepreneur is adaptable and is always looking for opportunities. There are many logical reasons why this is a good time to start your own online venture. Your capital maybe limited and you feel the pressure of a recession that looks like it’s not going away anytime soon so let’s get serious and look at your options.
Preparation Is Key to a Successful Start-Up Business
Most new small business owners and entrepreneurs discover that getting starting is often the most difficult task. Inundated with often contradictory advice from the internet or friend and family they’re left more confused and frustrated than ever.
Raising Capital And What You Need To Prepare
Many people ask me if it's possible to raise capital in the traditional sense these days. Everyone knows and understands that lending practices have tightened and many VC firms have gently (and occasionally not so gently) refused to accept any more submissions. But is it impossible to raise capital? Of course not, it's just even harder now.
Small Business Brand Identity Strategies
"Does a brand identity matter when you are a start-up?" Sleepless nights, a staff of three to do the work of 20, and the doubters will test your stamina to survive the start-up game. I suppose if it were easy, every person with an idea would be doing it. Start-ups require lots more than possession of an idea. They require an uncanny drive to succeed, a fearless spirit, a sense of humor and thick skin.

Small Business Owners Need to Embrace The Web
The return on investment for website design and search engine optimization (SEO) is huge for small business owners. The result of not having a professional, effective web presence is being left behind.
The Current Paradigm Shift For Venture Capital Firms
Currently, the state of funding for start-ups from a venture capitalist seems to be on the wane. The keyword there is “seems.” Once again, what is actually happening in the realm of business and what is being perceived to be happening in the realm of business are too very different things.

The Holy Trinity Of Business Mentoring And Coaching
Whenever I’m discussing my philosophies on the purpose of hiring a mentor service, I sometimes notice an elephant in the room that no one wants to address: Just what the heck IS a mentor anyway? Sometimes it slips my mind that there isn’t a clear definition of what these types of services are for in business. My own personal definition of a mentor is pretty much the norm for the business world, but should probably be reviewed, regardless.

The Importance of Updating Your Business Plan
The importance of updating a business plan is simple: it creates a long-term strategy for your business, while alleviating the stress and headaches of operating a business if action is continually implemented. There are important factors to consider when revising and updating a business plan.
The Start-Up Blues – How to Keep Motivated
Nationally and locally, business are facing hardships that we as a country haven’t truly had to face in a few generations and we’ve done our best to persevere, but that doesn’t always keep us from being pushed to the mat and the breaking point. The world where business credit was easy to acquire, vendors were lax in their collections, and the consumer was hungry for new purchases is long gone and the small business owner isn’t getting any true encouragement on what to do next.

Tips For Creating Lender Ready Business Plans
Guess what? Lenders can’t approve every loan application that crosses their desk. I’m sure they wish they could, but the fact of the matter is that they deal with mostly very small businesses seeking small loans, usually less than $250,000. Lending to inexperienced, new business owners is one of the riskiest arenas for a lending agency. That’s where the eye for looking for those classic, “business plan killers” comes in.

Websites For Small Businesses- What You Need to Know
Whenever I meet a potential client that has a business they’d like to tell me about, the inevitable question follows: “Do you have a website?” You’d be amazed how often this answer is, “Uh…” It’s baffling to me that people don’t really find a web presence as important as it should be. At some point, no matter what type of business you’re about to start, establishing a website or presence on the internet will be vital. These days, almost every company has a web page. If you still advertise your small business only in print only, you’re just not paying attention to current trends. A professional web presence is a must for a small business, especially a start-up.

Woman Owned Start-Ups Outpace Men
Currently, women outpace men in new businesses about 2 to 3. Of this statistic, Latina women in particular are entering entrepreneurial ranks full speed ahead, outpacing every other demographic group.

Entrepreneurial Ways to New Small Business Loans
Banks and traditional business lenders no longer provide the benefits they once did regarding business loans and access to capital by small businesses. However, out of this crisis there are emerging new entrepreneurial firms looking to fill the gap.
Six Factors to Entrepreneurial Success
Most of the new jobs added to this economy over the last years have been from Start-ups. But business start-ups are risky. What can be done to enhance the success of these start-ups? Here are six factors found to be consistent among most successful start-ups.

When Should You NOT Start a Business
There are many entrepreneurs out there. Sometimes, a person can get too excited and plan to start a business when they shouldn’t. If you want to start a business to get rich quick, looking to work only a few hours per week or someone said you should, then here are five reasons why you should not give up your day job yet.

The Strong Leadership Formula
Is there such thing as a super human being in the world of leadership? This question was posed to me recently as there are simply so many books and articles today on what a leader should possess! Here, I share 5 traits which to me a good and strong leader need to have.

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The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Do You Have What It Takes?
Being successful as an entrepreneur depends on having the right attitude: the entrepreneurial mindset. But what exactly is the "entrepreneurial mindset" and do you have what it takes? Read on to find out more.
Five Steps to Entrepreneurial Success - Personality Matters!
Bill Wagner, owner and CEO of Accord Management Systems, Inc., has been at the forefront of entrepreneurial practice and research for the past twenty years. His recently published book, The Entrepreneur Next Door, defines the personality traits that affect entrepreneurial success and explains how to manage the gap between who we are and who we need to be to get the job done. Bill is heavily involved in the franchise community, helping both franchisors and franchisees alike to “get the right people on the bus!”

Improve the Quality of Your Franchise Business with Multi-Unit and Multi-Concept Franchises
Multi-unit and multi-concept franchising both provide opportunities for fast, efficient growth. Franchising is an obvious consideration for individuals who naturally have that entrepreneurial spirit. You might be wondering what is means to have an entrepreneurial spirit.

15.0 What Needs to be Done - Producing Better Research: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Most researchers and policy makers have tended to use the information summarized in Table I in an isolated way. Researchers have concentrated either on the entrepreneur (e.g., Frese, 2000), the entrepreneurial firm (Jorgensen, et al., 1986), or the external environment (Buame, 1996). Rarely have they taken a holistic approach to study the combined and interactive effects of the three factors on entrepreneurial success or failure across time and space.
7.0 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Success: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Enterprise Growth in Uganda
Common day definition of entrepreneurs tend to equate it with those who start small business (Drucker, 1993). This is a fallacy. Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of creating wealth whether in small organisations or large organisations. Entrepreneurship is a continuous search for change, responding to it and exploiting it as an opportunity (Drucker, 1993). Most successful organisations are successful because of the entrepreneurial behaviour of their leaders and the entrepreneurial culture prevalent in the organisation. The key entrepreneurial behaviours include the following :
Operator Error Is Why Most Businesses Fail
This is the column that probably gets me kicked out of the entrepreneurial chapter of the Priory of Scion. I look silly in those long robes anyway, so here goes. A thousand apologies to my entrepreneurial brothers and sisters, but. I think the more important question is: do businesses fail or does the entrepreneur in charge of them fail? I have to be honest and tell you that I think most business failures must be laid at the feet of the person in charge.
The Entrepreneurs Checklist
I was asked the other day what personality traits I thought were important to entrepreneurial success. I immediately gave my preprogrammed reply about passion and dedication and hard work. After taking some time later to ponder the question a little deeper (I normally operate in shallow waters), I came up with a more detailed checklist for entrepreneurial success.
Entrepreneurship and Franchising: Perfect Together
For years we’ve been reading articles about a franchisor’s desire to select franchisees that are not too entrepreneurial…that are in fact interdependent rather than independent. In order for most prospective franchisees to take the leap into business ownership…they need to develop an entrepreneurial spirit.
The Myth of Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking
Everyone seems to have their own "Top 10 list of entrepreneurial qualities" these days, and risk-taking almost always makes the Top 3. But is this really true? Do savvy entrepreneurs simply throw caution to the wind and fly in the face of danger when it comes to taking risks? Let's examine this "myth of entrepreneurial risk-taking" more closely.
Businesses For Introverts: Profits From Cyberspace
Lots of would-be entrepreneurs fail to get into business for themselves for one simple reason: they're introverts, and they're convinced you can't be both an introvert and an entrepreneur. But as a clear introvert with entrepreneurial aspirations, I'm here to tell you it just ain't so. Here are three things introverts should consider when they feel the entrepreneurial urge....
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