Category: Business

I have been wrestling with the emerging field of sustainable entrepreneurship, which has its roots in the concept of sustainable development that grew out of the conservation and environmental movement of the 1970’s, so I undertook a short analysis to try to understand the concept further. A Google Search of sustainable development yields 30,600,000 web…

Sales and Emotional Intelligence Training for Sales Managers, Sales Professionals, and Entrepreneurs Research into Emotional Intelligence has shown that there is a strong relationship between this ability and sales performance1. Daniel Goleman then made the concept better known since 1995 with his book by the same name. If you think about it, this makes complete…

When you go the distance to train your sales team for a brand new marketing and sales effort over a weekend event, you’re expecting a lot from them. So why not give them the BEST entertainment option with a Los Angeles Top-Shelf Cover Band to close out the event? The more you expect, the more…

Having been self-employed since 1992, I’ve learned a lot about the balancing act that comes with running a business. Entrepreneurs have to make choices as to what is practical and what takes precedence. We have to prioritize and when we choose something, we have to be willing to make the sacrifices to make that new…

What does an entrepreneur test look like? How do you measure whether you’re ready to start your own business? With the number of idled or displaced workers in the broad economy today, many are wondering if it’s time to invest in their own business start-up. Those are just two of the questions that online business…

Good, talented insurance sales trainers are adept at improvising effective sales techniques from experts in fields other than insurance sales to improve and strengthen their insurance sales training efforts. Two techniques worthy of attention are the elevator pitch and the staircase pitch. Both offer sound advice to would-be sales professionals on how to develop their…

The perception of entrepreneurial opportunities and the capacity to exploit them are strongly associated with social norms that encourage venturing, such as the availability of risk capital, access to developing technologies, a quality diverse entrepreneurship education system and a sound professional infrastructure. This has considerable implications for the UK entrepreneurial economy. Entrepreneurship education, at all…

Introduction: In a world where ideas drive economies, it is no wonder that innovation and entrepreneurship are often seen as inseparable bedfellows. The governments around the world are starting to realize that in order to sustain progress and improve a country’s economy, the people have to be encouraged and trained to think out-of-the-box and be…