Business & Startups

Is Knowledge the Key to Success?

I get nearly 1,000 emails per week from new entrepreneurs asking for advice in starting their new business. In this video, I’ll answer one of the most common questions I get. This week’s question comes from Renny… ——————————————————— My current challenge is to get a comprehensive understanding of the end […]

Cold-Calling Your Way to $100k – A Step-by-Step Strategy You Can Use

Ever wonder what sales tactics startups and major tech companies use to scale? Highly  successful companies such as Yelp, Seamless, and especially Groupon were built from the ground up through cold calling. My first job out of college was doing sales at one of the coolest tech companies in the country, Google […]

How Small Business Can Motivate Employees

Here’s What We’re Covering: Your employees are your most valuable assets and managing them is critical to your business, albeit challenging. This is especially true for small businesses where employee productivity is a serious concern. However, you cannot blame the employees alone for lower productivity. Employers too play a significant […]

Honesty IS the Best Policy in Business (Usually)

Here’s What We’re Covering: It doesn’t always pay to be good. There are huge stretches of human history where the only way to win has been to lie, cheat, and steal. Luckily for those of us who suck at being bad, goodness is paying off. Particularly honesty. It doesn’t always […]

9 Startup Strategies You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2015

Your head is probably hurting right now from the sheer volume of articles you’ve read about what you need to do to make it successful. Let’s start by quashing an assumption: You don’t need to know everything, ok? You’re going to find it far easier to start your business if […]

4 Strategies to Uncover Your Next Big Business Idea

Here’s What We’re Covering: It’s daunting, isn’t it? You want to start a business, but you don’t have the time or money to test idea after idea only to discover that they won’t be profitable. You don’t want to be a statistic: just another wantrepreneur whose business idea failed. But what if […]