• One on One: T.A. McCann of Gist.com September 10, 2010
    Welcome to the One on One conversation series, where Small Business Trends is speaking to some of the best minds in business today. The goal of the series is to pick the brains of successful entrepreneurs, best-selling author, and executives with organizations serving the small business community, to provide the Small Business Trends community with their val […]
  • Great Job Security September 10, 2010
    I used to be an inside salesman. My job was to sell via phone and online, and to support several outside salespeople as well. One day, one of the outside guys was in the office, and he and I were discussing clients. “I dunno how you do it,” he said. “Being chained to a desk all day? I couldn’t do it.” We finished our chat, got a nice lunch on the company, an […]
  • Small Business News: The Real Deal September 10, 2010
    Sometimes small business news and advice is just too theoretical, too poetic, too colorful to help the average small business owner or entrepreneur. We get it. That’s why we assemble the Small Business Trends news roundup to give you the news and information you need to start or operate your small business more creatively, more efficiently, more positively t […]
  • Q3 Kauffman Economic Outlook: Uncertain September 9, 2010
    The Kauffman Economic Outlook: A Quarterly Survey of Leading Economics Bloggers for the third quarter of 2010 has recently been released. Compared to the responses in the second-quarter 2010 Outlook–which was not all that rosy--the viewpoint this time around has become far more pessimistic. Sixty-eight percent of economics bloggers who responded to the Q3 su […]
  • 9 Places to Get Involved and Build SMB Satellite Communities September 9, 2010
    As small business owners, we’re often told to get out there and engage–that we should use social media to “even the playing field” (an expression I hate) and “meet” our customers and potential customers at the watering holes where they hang out. But…where should we go? What types of social site are out there for a small business owner who wants to create a p […]

Part 3: Make Time To Plan Your Business For Success

The patience, perseverance and passion to deliberately take the steps to create a thorough business plan, to accurately allocate every action step, commit to self-educate and learn from failures, WILL ensure your success…. It’s just a matter of time. “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success.”~Brian [...]

Avoid Becoming An Online Home Business Statistic!

The internet is filled will those Internet, affiliate and network marketers who never saw the importance of securing their business anchor before braving the coming storm. In the end they seem more like a desperate homeless person who will beg, borrow and steal in order to become successful, believing that the end will justify the means.

But what success will you have if you stumble across a little profit but yet have lost your very identity, your morals and character in the process. This is not why you started this adventure and it need not be where you end up. This disease is so rampant that if this doesn’t describe you, it will at least describe the path that many that you know of, are now on. My desire is that if you feel unanchored, out of control and burned out, that I’m able to empower and help you correct your course before you become demoralized and give up on your dreams altogether. [...]

Weekly Video Training For Online Business Owners

My intention is also to make this video content totally free to you all, having chosen not to put them on the Learn2Earn training and support site. Its not because I think $27 is a high price to pay for all the content and training I give you there. Rather my perspective is, how does anyone know the level of value and content I provide unless they see the steady stream of it? That type of honest value has always been my goal and it will not [...]