By Kent Bernhard Jr., News Editor of Portfolio.com After a rocky start for her cable network, Oprah Winfrey is stepping in as CEO of OWN. Here are five lessons for entrepreneurs from Oprah’s experience. Everyone knew… Read more »
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I Married an Entrepreneur
Maintaining a healthy relationship with a business owner is tough. A program for spouses at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is meant to help. Being an entrepreneur is time-consuming, energy-draining, and often thankless—and that’s when things are going… Read more »
What Makes an Entrepreneur?
By Daria Steigman, founder of Steigman Communications, LLC and author of the Independent Thinking Blog. Some days I wish there were a magic potion, a special key, a secret sauce. A wand I could wave that would… Read more »
Sales Tips and Out-of-Office E-Mails
The next time you get an out-of-office e-mail, don’t just hit delete. It may be a data gold mine. Len Feltoon, EO Philadelphia member and chief executive of Countrywide Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., gets hundreds of… Read more »
10 Social Media Tools to Help Your Business
By Daria Steigman, founder of Steigman Communications, LLC and author of the Independent Thinking Blog. We talk a lot about the “big 5″ social media platforms (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr). But the conversation universe is… Read more »
Book Talk: The New Small
How Emerging Technologies are Helping Smart Companies Thrive Win a free, signed copy of this book! What happens when companies leverage emerging technologies to better understand their customers, help their employees collaborate more effectively, crowdsource,… Read more »
Book Talk: Macrowikinomics
A New Approach to Business for Our Networking World The world has changed, but has your business? The premise of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World is that we need to embrace our interconnectedness and… Read more »
Corporate Blogs: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
By Ben Finklea, CEO and founder of Volacci, a search engine marketing firm. What do General Motors, Southwest Airlines, Dell Computers, and The Marriott have in common? They have all discovered that a company blog… Read more »
Top Entrepreneurial News of the Day
Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? – Inc.com: I always thought that expanding my business at a steady pace was a smart move. Now I worry that it could potentially kill us. Three Big Lies… Read more »
Top Entrepreneurial News of the Day
The One-Paragraph Startup Plan – Entrepreneur.com: Use these five steps to write a practical business plan to launch a new company quickly. Seven Internet Marketing Tips – YoungEntrepreneur.com: Learning from your mistakes is great. Learning from… Read more »