Paint Your Masterpiece, Solo Entrepreneur
What do I love most about solo entrepreneurship? There’s the challenge, the strategy, the accomplishment, the risk, the reward.
And then there’s the innovation, influence, and inner games to be mastered. I like to explore ideas, techniques, business models, best practices.
Even more, getting to know people, their challenges, and helping to create or find solutions to their problems.
And ultimately, probably what you love about solo entrepreneurship yourself: the freedom to forge your own path, do your own thing, live life on your own terms, make a significant difference in the lives of some others, and… Paint Your Masterpiece.
In order paint your own masterpiece, you need to get out of your own way. That’s what the video embedded below is all about. It’s a TEDx talk given by Ann Mehl. You’ll find that it’s chock-full of takeaways and excellent insights into an important aspect of the inner game of being an outstanding solo entrepreneur: Finding the great thing about you and letting it shine through for the benefit of others. Read More…
Content Marketing Strategy: 4 Elements to Make Yours Great
Today’s consumers are more interested in content than ever before. In fact, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, about 83% of consumers will research products online before making a purchase. This is why it’s extremely important that you use content marketing to reach your target audience.
But content marketing is more than just words—it requires a detailed plan in order to ensure that the content is successful by reaching the right audience and giving them the right information.
If you want to create successful content marketing, you need to make sure that your content marketing includes all of the following elements. Read More…
Use Confident Body Language to Improve Self Confidence
My clients improve their entrepreneurial “game” by focusing on three key arenas, or rings, that are important to entrepreneurial success. Of the three, usually getting on top of their “Inner Game” brings about the most dramatic, often transformational, results.
One key component of the Inner Game is confidence. Read More…
Do Some Heavy-Duty Keyword Research With This Powerful SEO Tool
If your target market can’t find you, they can’t hear you. And if they can’t hear you, you can’t provide them with the value you have to offer. That’s why “traffic, traffic, traffic” is so important (just like “location, location, location” is so important to a “bricks-and-mortar” store).
So how do you send traffic your way on the internet? By putting yourself right in front of your intended audience’s eyes. How do you find out where they are looking? Read More…
[Infographic] 7 Steps to Fast-Track Expertise in Your Field
The 10,000 Hour Rule states that it takes ten thousand hours of deliberate practice to become an expert.
If you’re building your business based upon past work experience you may very well already have the 10K hours logged (about 5 years at 40 hours per week).
But what if you’ve become a solo entrepreneur around a passion and are getting your deliberate practice as you go-and-grow? Not to worry.
You can shave hours off the 10k Hour Rule by getting on the fast-track to building expertise. How? Read More…
The Secret Logic of Desire
[Jim's Note: Finding out what people really want is a key pursuit for entrepreneurs who want to successfully offer high-value and highly-sought-after products and services. But getting down to what it really is that people want is not always easy. Surveys are a useful tool but, as you'll read below, also come with unique challenges. Today, John Forde offers expert advice and insight on getting to know what people really want... something which they themselves probably aren't fully aware. Without further ado...] Read More…
[Infographic] Solopreneurs: How We Market Online
Come and get it! Hot out of the oven from the Word Chef: 2012 survey results on how solo-entrepreneurs market online…
Check out the infographic summary of results below. How do you fit in? Read More…
10 Video Marketing Mistakes
Get your video marketing efforts on the fast-track to success by avoiding or fixing these 10 video marketing mistakes…
What video mistakes would you add to this list? Leave a comment and let us know!
Take a Quick Break: Odd Origins of Nine Entrepreneurship Words and Phrases
If you spend any time at all in start-up circles or on websites dedicated to entrepreneurship you’re sure to come across “entrepre-lingo.” Terms such as entrepreneur, angel investor and elevator pitch sprinkle conversations. Here are the “Odd Origins of Nine Entrepreneurship Words and Phrases.” Knowing the words helps you stay in the conversation. Knowing the origins of the words might come in handy while getting to know other entrepreneurs while engaging in small talk. And if nothing else, if you happen to like trivia then this collection is for you!
22 Creative Nudges to Get Those Great Ideas Out of Your Head and Into Your Customer’s Life
Blogging is a great way to attract and engage an audience around the value you have to offer. But sometimes all that great value just doesn’t seem to want to come out.
Here’s a creative nudge (22 of them actually, so take your pick) for when the you need a spark of inspiration to let all that greatness in you flow through your fingers and spill out onto your computer screen (or yellow pad, or whatever it is that is part of your writing ritual.) Read More…
Hack a Conference for High Quality Leads? (Even if you don’t attend!)
Here’s a great idea for adding high-quality, highly “invested” leads to your list. How to develop relationships in your market using Twitter hashtags associated with industry events… even if you aren’t able to be there. Check out this brilliant strategy! (But don’t abuse it… or it will likely backfire on you.) How to Hack a Conference for High Quality Leads (Even if You Can’t Attend)
Great Time to Publish E-Books!
Waiting to publish your e-book? Jump in now! Net sales of e-books more than doubled in 2011 from 2010…and brought in more than $2 billion in 2011 for publishers. But the majority of publishers’ revenue still came from print books. Still room to grow for e-book publishers! Great time to publish e-books!
Enter the Entrepreneur
There are many reasons people become entrepreneurs. Money is not always the primary reason.
For some of us, money is merely a part of the game. We see money as a by-product (a fun one, of course!) of entrepreneurship… but not the motivation.
What really drives us? Read More…
Content Creation Keys Unlock Your Business Blog Success
A blog can be a key part of your online business strategy if handled right. The challenge many face with a blog is that it requires the creation of content of at minimum good quality.
If you’re a coaching client, follow my teaching, or are a JimZboran.com member, you know my strategy for using a business blog as a key component of my step-by-step system for turning your interests, talents, and skills into a meaningful, rewarding, and successful full or part-time business.
A blog works on many more levels than just marketing to help create and build highly-valued and eagerly sought-after entrepreneurial endeavor. And I teach how to harness the full range of benefit that comes from a business blog. Read More…
A Little Action on Your Part Might Rock Someone Else’s Whole World
Choose your goals and your actions wisely. While the choices you make, and the value you work to bring to others, may seem inconsequential to you, they may have great impact on someone else. So be careful. And by the same token, be passionate about your goals and the actions you take to achieve them. While the value you bring to the table might seem like a small thing to you, it may mean opening up a whole new world for someone else. Read More…
Shoot at the Right Target for Business Success
Aim for success… or something else?
There are many, many people seeking to start their own business with the end goal of creating success for themselves. But that’s not the best goal to create long-term success in business or in life.
When you shoot for creating great value for other people and then deliver that great value through your business you are setting yourself up for success by setting your customers or clients up for success. Read More…
Free Malware and Blacklist Scanner for your Business Website or Blog
Business sites get hacked everyday. Often, malicious code is inserted to infect the computers of your site visitors. Some of your visitors end up with bad things on their computer. Others, with protection in place, receive a warning before entering your site that scares them away. Eventually, your site ends up getting blacklisted from search engines until you clear up the problem.
It’s a common occurrence and just a reality of doing business on the internet. Certainly no reason to not have a site as it’s a simple matter to take simple precautions from the beginning and then have some sort of backup and monitoring system in place. Read More…
Entrepreneurial Success in a Nutshell
It’s all here in this short interview!
Entrepreneurial legend and world’s foremost sales and leadership expert Harvey Mackay gives some excellent advice for entrepreneurs in this interview conducted by Chris Brogan.
This interview is loaded with key points of experienced entrepreneurial success! Read More…
