By: Angela Petro, an EO Columbus member, and Owner of Two Caterers
A few years ago, I attended a women’s ski clinic in Alta, Utah, USA. I came home a much better skier, but more importantly, I learned something valuable that I could apply to my professional life: When I’m out of my comfort zone, I immediately revert to my “fall-back position,” or the bad habit I most need to overcome.
Categories: FINANCES Inspirational
Tags: best practices business entrepreneur influence inspiration
By Leandro Margulis, director of Impulsa Business Accelerator
In this special interview, Leandro offers his tips, insights and best practices regarding how to achieve accelerated and sustained business growth.
MO: What is the difference between a Business Incubator and a Business Accelerator?
Leandro: A Business Incubator is focusing on getting a company off the ground, typically from idea to “Something”, from zero revenues to the first couple millions in annual revenue. A Business Accelerator takes over where the incubator left off, helping the company get to the next level through a business acceleration program. While a Business incubator helps with office space, mentorship and connections, a Business Accelerator helps a ‘started-up’, or established mid-size company with professional services, management consulting, developing a strategic focus for the company and working with the executives at a company on a daily basis to execute on that strategy and achieve accelerated and sustained growth.
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES
By: Sean Tonner, an EO Colorado member and a Special to Overdrive
Like most business owners, my entrepreneurial journey has been wrought with high-pressure meetings, major disappointments and nail-biting challenges. In spite of the high-octane stress, sudden setbacks and unexpected obstacles, I have rarely lost a night of sleep. What’s my secret? Perspective. Everyone is given gifts in the form of experiences that help shape their approach to life. The three most impactful life events that serve as my guideposts are as follows:
Categories: Best Practices general Inspirational
Tags: best practices business career entrepreneur entrepreneurs' organization lessons learned social media technology tips
By: Ashley Bodi, a Special to Octane
Since entrepreneurship isn’t a cookie-cutter career, everything is pretty much learned along the way. However, I really wish I knew — and accepted – these three things from the very beginning:
Categories: PEOPLE/STAFF
Tags: best practices entrepreneur entrepreneurs' organization inspirational management marketing technology
By: Tim Hamilton EO Austin member, founder and CEO of Astonish Design
As entrepreneurs, there’s no shortage of motivational advice to help us overcome the fears and doubts that hamper the best of us. But to realize any benefit from it, we have to relate the advice to our own experiences. Early on in my business career, one helpful expression I kept hearing was: “Focus on the process, not on the outcome.” What it meant, I hadn’t a clue. It wasn’t until I recalled a moment from my childhood that everything started to come together.
Categories: general PEOPLE/STAFF
Tags: business entrpreneur member process
By Jason Beans, CEO and founder of
The key to effective leadership is to have a picture in your head and communicate that inspiration to your team so everyone knows where you are all headed.
Think the Vulcan mind meld where the whole team is heading the same direction. Pictures are how people like to learn and communicate. It comes as no surprise that Pinterest is the new hottest social media site. As a leader, you have been doing vision boards in some way, shape or form to get to where you are today, even if just in your head. The issue is they are in your own head and not in the minds of your teammates.
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES
Tags: management planning vision
By Andy Bailey, an EO Nashville member and CEO of Petra Coach
If you know exactly what you want, you increase the likelihood of getting exactly what you want. The converse is also true. If you don’t know what you want, or what you’re doing, you’re likely to cast a wide net, cross your fingers and wait.
When you’re fishing, for example, this results in catching littered coke cans, old shoes and a few miscellaneous sea creatures— if you’re lucky. If instead you know exactly what you want, you’re likely to cast your net at dusk during low tide, and skim the bottom near the shoreline. This preparedness drastically increases your odds in catching what you want— lots of good-sized shrimp.
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES
Tags: best practices list sales tips
By: Zoe So, a Special to Overdrive
If all your business aims to make is money, then you’re not doing it right. Overfilled toxic waste dumps, child labor and nuclear melt-downs have all been brought to us by the pursuit of fortune. Isn’t it about time we started shifting our business focus a bit broader than a single bottom line?
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES Technology
By: Ryan Wilson, an EO Colorado Member and CEO of FiveFifty Marketing
Understanding Google Analytics basics can help you track your sales and marketing and analyze the data the service gathers about your website traffic in a number of ways and across a number of characteristics. By doing this you can learn a great deal about your visitors and about your customers.
Categories: Best Practices FINANCES general
Tags: analytics best practices business entrepreneur facebook google lessons learned marketing social media tips
Do you run or own a B2B Company and don’t use social media? This infographic could convince you to start implementing into your business and marketing plan, the limits truly are limitless. This free form of marketing is making small businesses grow to empires overnight, your company could be next!
Categories: Best Practices general PR/MARKETING Technology
Tags: business entrepreneur marketing social media technology
