10 Tips for Setting Up an Efficient Small Business Office
Before starting up a new business, always have a business plan written as a guide to what your goals are for your business. Visit some other businesses, which have recently started up and ask...
What Principles Drive Your Business & Personal Success?
The older and wiser I get, the more I start to create and follow my own principles. Like a Jiminy Cricket on my shoulder, they pop up when the occasion arises. As a young and eager person, I’d...
How Important is Purpose to a Startup?
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple he came back to a mess: little to no market share, declining revenue, and almost on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned the company around simply by...
A 3-Step Process for Building a Stronger Business Network
You really can meet and get to know anyone. Old-school networking has tarnished relationship building and given it a bad name. The old days of throwing a card in the hand of someone you’ve...
Business Lessons Learned from The Social Network
I went to watch “The Social Network” a few weekends ago (about a little site called Facebook), and the movie highlighted some of the struggles of making a company. I took away several lessons that I’d...
Open Discussion: What Business Challenges Are You Facing?
This is post is more of a survey than an actual article, but I’m interested in knowing what areas of business you all are having difficulty with so as to better service the EpicLaunch community. We’re...
Networking Success: Give More to Receive More
The other day I watched an interesting video of Dan Schawbel explaining some of the concepts of networking. He stressed the need to give before you receive and he’s absolutely right. Networking isn’t just about receiving, it’s about...
10 Smart Tips for Rebranding Your Business Successfully
Simple steps can give your business a new look, feel, and attitude that will jolt it out of the doldrums and into a reinvigorated and successful future. Here are 10 tips for rebranding your...
Improve a Business Idea, Don’t Just Copy It
“Monkey See, Monkey Do.” I don’t know if copying is some sort of evolutionary trait, or if there’s even a gene for it, however, I do know a lot of people do it. I...
Mastering Networking Etiquette for Stronger Business Connections
Networking is essential to growing your business. The importance can be summed up in this equation: networking equals more money. As a networker, you become automatically a connector. This then leads to “Connecting Etiquette,” conventions that become...