http://www.e2ecoaching.com Helping Executives Transition to Successful Businiess Ownership Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a business-coaching client, Scott, who is succeeding faster than some of my other clients in his entrepreneurial venture. The other day we were talking about how he has taken his approach to success at work and created a similar system to make his children successful (they are 5, ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/02/09/if-a-7-year-old-can-get-goal-oriented-you-can-too/ A fascinating article in the New York Times provides a perfect object lesson for young entrepreneurs on the subject of Executive Foot in Mouth (FIM) Disease. The background: There's a very cool program in Boston, Inner City Entrepreneurs, that helps small business owners who are new to entrepreneurship figure out how ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/01/08/note-to-young-entrepreneurs-shut-up/ The New York Times has a sad story on seven small businesses that shut their doors in 2009. The owners were brave enough to talk about what went wrong and offer up valuable lessons for all small business owners: A 12-year-old concierge service that peaked at $2.5 million in revenue ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/01/02/lessons-learned-from-small-businesses-that-died-this-year/ Jeff Morin is a Classic Small-Business Entrepreneur (CSBE). Here's how I define CSBE: someone who has deep knowledge of a market segment that is inefficient or poorly served and develops a way to correct the inefficiency -- preferably without too many competitors even noticing -- thus assuring higher-than-normal profit margins. ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/31/27-year-old-master-of-internet-business-shares-secrets-of-success/ I just recorded a 20-minute podcast with NY Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk Questions Gary answers: How do you start a business if you're currently working? What's the most important success factor for startups today? Can you scale a business built around your own personal brand? In what year will Gary buy the New York ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/23/interview-with-crush-it-author-gary-vaynerchuk/ To the tens of thousands of potential entrepreneurs interested in starting an online business, there are lessons aplenty to be learned from Paperlesspost.com. The roughly one-year-old New York-based company allows consumers to send elegantly designed virtual invitations and greeting cards through email and keep track of responses. In itself, that doesn't ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/22/5-key-lessons-for-succeeding-in-an-online-business/ As you prepare your business for the next year, how do you make sure it isn't a rerun of the past year? Even if this year was a great one for you, there's no reason to do things the same way, and you'll probably want to take your small business ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/20/a-12-month-strategic-plan-in-one-hour/ If you're a small business owner, you can spend an awful lot of time in the muck of collecting, or trying to collect, bad debt. There's a good piece about this on the New York Times site today in which Jay Goltz, an owner of five businesses in Chicago, explains ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/15/4-steps-to-avoid-being-victimized-by-deadbeat-customers/ Which demographic group has a lock on entrepreneurship? Is it the Gen-Y/Millennials, which has grown up with social media, group dating and an ability to leverage technology and get products launched fast? Or it the Baby Boomers, who are graduating for corporate life and taking the lessons of decades as they invest ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/10/who-owns-entrepreneurship-the-young-or-the-old/ Michael Hanley, author of Effective Tax Planning for the MicroBusiness, is a CPA specializing in small business. We asked him for year-end tax planning tips that can help entrepreneurs and small buiness owners. Michael gave us his top five action items. 1. Analyze You Business Structure Are you operating under the best ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2009/12/09/5-quick-year-end-tax-saving-tips-for-small-business/