What do you need to succeed in business? Experts say that you need to have loads of persistence, passion, and hard work – and yes, luck. But there’s really no single winning formula that can guarantee the success of your business. You have just to do it, and do it right. Here are 25 tips on what a startup entrepreneur needs to do to increase chances for success.
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Trusting Your Gut: How to Succeed Using Your Instincts
Successful entrepreneurs share a common trait: they trust their guts. They have a talent for zeroing and identifying profitable opportunities. They are willing to break conventional wisdom and turn a deaf ear to expert advice, and simply go through what their instincts tell them.
Three Business Strategies for Small Business Entrepreneurs
Whether you’re considering starting your own business — or looking for ways to expand an existing enterprise — there are three time-tested secret weapons you can use to help gain a sharp competitive edge. These weapons are three broad business strategies that can help you to create a new business or push your company to the next level of success.
10 Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs
How do you know whether you can be a successful entrepreneur? While there is no surefire formula for success, studies have shown that successful entrepreneurs share these ten characteristics. Watch the video to check if you possess any one of them.
Make a List of Strategies that Worked
Make a list of what worked – and what did not work. As the business owner, you will find it exceedingly difficult to develop a future strategy for your business if you do not know how successful your current strategies are to date. Hence, it is essential that you look at how you perform this […]
Learning from Successful Small Business Women Entrepreneurs
One of the questions we normally ask women entrepreneurs we feature on Women Home Business is: What advice can you give other entrepreneurs? We have compiled some of the success tips, advice and lessons shared by this wonderful small business women entrepreneurs into a PowerPoint presentation. Check it out: Success Tips from Small Business Women […]
How to Get Six-Figure Income
Do you have what it takes to achieve financial success? Barbara Stanny in her book “Secrets of Six Figure Women” explores the strategies that financially successful women – from entrepreneurs to corporate executives to freelancers and part-timers — employ to reach their highest income potential. According to the author, here are the eight secrets of […]
10 Reasons Why Online Retail Entrepreneurs Succeed — and Fail
Learn the 10 reasons why online retail merchants will make it big, and the top 10 reasons why small business ecommerce retailers fail
5 Steps to Creating a Great Life with Your Small Business
I came across the book by Louis Barajas entitled “Small Business Big Life,” which takes a more philosophical and psychological approach to teaching how to start a business that I find interesting. The book doesn’t discuss how to select the right business, or how to patent an idea or how to write a business plan. […]
Trait of a Successful Entrepreneur: Knowing When to Listen and Get Help
I just wrote in the Learning from Big Boys blog that one of the characteristics of PepsiCo’s CEO Indra Nooyi is that she is not afraid to get help when she needs it. When named as the CEO, she went straight to her competitor for the job and ask him to stay and help her […]