Tag: entrepreneur
Becoming an Entrepreneur #7: Generating Leads
A business needs an audience of paying customers. Therefore, your job as an entrepreneur is to find new people to enter your sales funnel consistently. Welcome back to the Becoming an Entrepreneur series (Part #1, Part #2, Part #3, Part #4, Part #5, Part #6), where we turn strangers into paying customers. What is a…
Becoming an Entrepreneur #6: Creating Your Sales Funnel
Attempting to sell something to another person seems simple but is quite complex. Very rarely do people just buy things without establishing some form of relationship—either with the product or the brand. Your mission as an entrepreneur is to turn people “off the street” (leads) into people who purchase items from you (customers). Ideally, we…
Becoming an Entrepreneur #5: Building an Audience
Now it’s time to put all our reading, training, and education into action. I firmly believe in the content-first approach to business that the book “Content Inc.” discussed. Welcome back to the Becoming an Entrepreneur Series (Part #1, Part #2, Part #3, Part #4), where we take you from employee to entrepreneur. Why is building…
Becoming an Entrepreneur #4: Training vs. Education
The most difficult concept for most starving entrepreneurs to grasp is the idea of training versus education. There is a massive difference between these learning techniques. Eventually, as an entrepreneur, you’ll find yourself in new territory where no one else has traveled. If you don’t understand the difference, you will find yourself lost in the…
Becoming an Entrepreneur #2: Dropping the 9-5 Mindset
If you feel weird without a job, it is not a coincidence. From the start, they programmed us to find a job and stay there until retirement. Consider the school system, where you attend from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Does this sound familiar? However, having a job isn’t a bad thing—what’s…
What Type of Home Business Should You Start 5: Consulting
Wow, the What Type of Home Business Should You Start series (Introduction, Outside, Online, Content) has taken me on a wild ride. It’s always an honor and privilege to complete one of these articles and books. I say this because I had to read multiple books and write numerous articles before writing the compilation article…
5 Takeaways from “The 10% Entrepreneur”
“The 10% Entrepreneur” by Patrick J. McGinnis is for working people like me. The premise is you continue to work at your career while building a business with 10% of your time, effort, or money. I am a 10% Entrepreneur as I continue to work my career in the US Marine Corps. I am also…
Become an Entrepreneur before You Start a Business
Over my 40 years, I have witnessed many people start businesses. Some of these businesses fail, and some actually become successful. However, I have met very few actual entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are hard to find, although people with companies are everywhere. Josh, what the heck are you talking about—with entrepreneurs? Business owners and entrepreneurs are two…
5 Takeaways from “The Non-Designer’s Design Book”
Very rarely do I feel like an idiot. But reading a book by a graphic designer showed me how ignorant I am of the world of design. Maybe idiot is too harsh of a word, but I was genuinely inspired by the works that she presented in the book. “The Non-Designer’s Design Book” by Robin…
Y.B.E. Young Brilliant Entrepreneurs
I actually bounced the title of this article from one of my favorite songs of yesteryear. The year was 2001, and the song was Y.B.E. Young Black Entrepreneurs (YouTube) by Prodigy, on the album H.N.I.C. I was a Lance Corporal (E-3) stationed in San Diego, California. I had the album on cassette tape, and boy…
Mothers as Entrepreneurs: Take Control
The pandemic hit many people very hard, lots of which never recovered. We learned much about ourselves and our society during this crisis. Mothers, as a group, were hit especially hard. During the crisis, our children were pulled out of school without forewarning. Parents, mothers in particular, were forced into tough choices involving going to…
6 Traits of a Successful Entrepreneur
Most people have the dream of starting their own business and hitting it big. You may think of an idea that you KNOW will be successful in the marketplace. However, to get your product from point A to point Z will take many skills that you don’t possess. Or at least, you feel you don’t…
