http://www.e2ecoaching.com Helping Executives Transition to Successful Businiess Ownership Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You know what a megatrend is -- one of those sea changes in science, culture or business that will affect everyone on the planet. The emergence of the Internet is a megatrend. But if you want to get an entrepreneurial jump on competition, you may do well to focus not ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2011/04/18/spotting-megatrends-while-theyre-still-minitrends/ While more Americans are turning to entrepreneurship due to economic restructuring,  most of them are going the solopreneur route and not building companies with employees. According to the "Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity," 0.34 percent of American adults created a business per month in 2010, or 565,000 new businesses, a rate that remained ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2011/03/20/more-entrepreneurs-going-it-alone/ Three of my coaching clients all are having the same big issue. It's an old issue and most entrepreneurs have it: how to deal with overload and better manage their time. All three had symptoms that will sound very familiar to you. Faces full of tension and fatigue, desks barely ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2011/02/19/want-to-improve-time-management-call-the-border-patrol/ A client of mine  has a very important customer who had never visited his office before. They'd always met at the customer's headquarters. My client's company has two floors in an office building, and reception is on the 3rd floor. His customer decided she'd like to see where her millions of ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2011/02/06/the-invisible-customer/ Wednesday January 12, 2011 It's the question that gets asked in every economic environment: Is now a good time to start a business? And the answer is always: Maybe. On the plus side, banks are said to be loosening up small business lending, and the strong 2010 ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2011/01/12/with-the-economy-slightly-better-is-it-time-to-look-at-a-franchise/ It's the nightmare of every small business: one unfair online review on Yelp!, Citysearch, TripAdvisor or some other site that tarnishes your reputation. The scariest part? You will never know how much business you may have lost as a result of people reading that bad review. Consumers don't buy ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/12/27/tips-for-making-sure-your-online-reputation-is-under-control/ If you followed entrepreneurship in 2010, you know the name Gary Vaynerchuk -- author of New York Times Bestseller Crush It!: Why Now is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, wine entrepreneur and video blog host of WineLibraryTV.com, and expert on social media's implications for business. We thought it ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/12/19/for-entrepreneurship-in-2011-its-all-a-mobile-game/ The airport limo will be here in a few hours and tomorrow morning we'll land in my second favorite place in the world, Paris. Tomorrow is our 25th anniversary. The trip was a surprise for my wife, which I sprung the night before Thanksgiving. (I was going to ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/11/29/packing-for-paris/ In the Sixties, women burned their bras. In 2011, Scott Gerber wants young people to burn their resumes. Gerber, Gen Y entrepreneur and author of Never Get a Real Job (Wiley, 2010)  is starting what he calls the "Death to the Resume" movement, which will kick off with a competition in ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/11/22/gen-y-burn-your-resumes/ Kathy Kramer has a small waist and slightly larger hips and always needed a belt or clothing alterations because there was extra room in the back of her pants. She sounds like tens of millions of other women, right? But unlike most women, in ... http://www.e2ecoaching.com/2010/10/22/four-years-to-launch-a-product-you-cant-see/