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Big Fish If you’re in business for yourself, your dreams are probably big. You want to do the best business, create the biggest rep in town, and, above all, score the best financial rewards for yourself that you can. Your friends and family might label you a “dreamer” and scoff endlessly. But you know that without big dreams, big realizations can’t happen. You have to have aspirations, plain and simple, to catch the big fish. (more…)

New Horizons The vinyl records, the VHS and audio tapes, those cranking sixteen millimeter projectors from high school health class—they’re all gone. Sure, you can dig them up in specialty shops, the library, or even see them in a museum. But for all intents and purposes, their time for regular commercial use has passed. Tragic? Maybe. But the fact is that technology changes, and that’s something humans have to come to terms with. (more…)

Tough Moves You’ve got the smarts and business demeanor. You’ve got the top tech tools and toys to do the job. And you’ve got the spunk and energy, with a desire for success. Great. You’re ready to go. But where are the customers? Don’t worry if the above seems like a slightly true-to-life question for you. As silly as it might sound, pros in many business lines ask this regularly. They’re ready to go, but they lack the clients to actually get going. Often, they never actually get on with their job because the client prospects never materialize. (more…)

Only So Much When you’re doing business by yourself, there is a tendency to want to do it all. And there’s good reasoning for this. For one, you can handle all the problems of your business yourself, ensuring that they are done correctly. For another, you can learn a lot while practicing good work methods, which will make your business stronger and your knowledge base that much better. (more…)

People Are the Reason Even the most prolific and successful entrepreneurs today lose their focus every once in awhile. It’s human nature. Life and work can get busy and complicated. As a result, there are times when their professional dispositions suffer because of their loss of focus. This happens in product fulfillment, too. The occasional botched mailing, a miscommunication between your business and a service provider, and the discovery of a faulty product are all examples of how product fulfillment can suffer. Luckily, these and other examples can be rectified relatively easily. (more…)

Out of the Doldrums Aside from the occasional anomaly, the average person doesn’t like being bored. There’s unease, sadness, and an outright stagnation of mind when one gets bored. Whether people admit it or not, pretty much anything that’s produced from a bored state of mind isn’t going to be all that inspiring. While we live in a visually and sonically stimulating time—often a bombardment to the senses—people tend to gravitate to the more creative aspects of modern life. (more…)