Voice of America:
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship www.nfte.com/ helps youngsters from low-income communities to build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial talent. In San Francisco, VOA’s Mike O’Sullivan spoke with aspiring entrepreneurs who took part in a competition to prepare a business plan.
High school student Vivian Chau, like most Asian American youngsters, loves a drink […]

The Franchise Magazine:
If you’ve ever looked at a national brand and thought “how can I compete with that?”, the answer might come by securing your own national brand through franchising.
In a recent survey* of franchisees, 19 per cent revealed that their primary reason for selecting their franchise was the “well known brand”. This sentiment is […]

Entrepreneur:
Business and personal coaches start by getting professional coach training, says Karen Kimsey-House, co-author of Co-Active Coaching.
Find International Coach Federation-accredited training programs at coachfederation.com. Determine your niche by examining your background, your strengths and the kinds of people you’re drawn to helping.
Use your network to find your first clients as well. Says Kimsey-House, ‘It’s […]

BizyMoms:
Fitness is one of the most important factors to live a healthy life. Because of this reason many parents tend to care about the fitness of their children from their young ages. This is the reason that has developed the conditions in the market for children’s fitness classes. Therefore this has given an opportunity for […]

San Francisco Chronicle:
The U.S. Small Business Administration offers 10 classes this week at its SBA Entrepreneur Center, 455 Market St., Sixth Floor, San Francisco:
Monday classes will focus on public speaking skills and how to computerize your business.
Tuesday’s class is on how to collect your business debts.
6 classes are scheduled Wednesday: free and low-cost resources for […]

Master New Media:
Pulling together a great brainstorming session is often much more difficult than breaking one apart, as the techniques required to make a brainstorming session effective are generally different to the way we normally act during spontaneous conversations. But given enough desire, awareness and a positive mind-sharing attitude it is not so difficult to […]

Somerville Journal:
Mayor Joe Curtatone and Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development Director Monica Lamboy announce that, in cooperation with the Union Square and East Somerville Main Streets organizations, the city will offer a series of monthly workshops designed to provide practical support and encouragement to the city’s growing population of small- and mid-sized businesses.
The […]

Tech Social:
* Tue. Apr 8th, 2008 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Technology Entrepreneur Center, University of Illinois - Illini Center, 4th Floor
Address: 200 South Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606
Fee: $ 12 in advance, $ 15 at the door
Register online or call Stephanie at 217-244-3124
Please join the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigns Technology Entrepreneur Center for an Illini-TEC […]

The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur:
For a long time I’ve hesitated to write about the Law of Attraction on this blog. First, there’s all the hype around the movie The Secret. All sorts of big name self-help gurus are talking about it - even Oprah. I didn’t want to seem to be jumping on the bandwagon.
Second, for […]

The Open Press:
Six Figure Blogging is a program designed to teach new and experienced bloggers how to make money through blogging. Problogging (making money from blogging) has become an increasingly popular way to earn a living. The course is a blueprint which provides strategies, best practices, tools, and techniques to help bloggers navigate their way […]

Sydney Morning Herald:
Mentoring another entrepreneur can give you new outlook on your own business. It gives you the opportunity to view another business from a fresh perspective. Apart from helping another entrepreneur to achieve their goals, it’s also a chance for you to network with a new group of people, get exposure to how other […]

PRWeb:
On December 10th, hundreds of business owners around the globe will congregate on the phone for Jen Blackert’s Fearless Millionaire Coaching Challenge, a free week-long event designed for entrepreneurs and conscious business owners. The event, Blackert’s Fearless Millionaire: Limitless Life Challenge, corrects and clears mental distractions. Blackert says, ‘The event is designed to increase awareness, […]

The E-Myth Revisted by Michael Gerber
This is a basic business book. Michael Gerber tells you how most entrepreneurs aren’t entrepreneurs at all. They’ve just experienced an entrepreneurial seizure. Instead of building and running a business, they’ve simply created themselves a very poor job. Businesses are based on systems that don’t require you to operate them. […]

KomoTV:
Consider how 10 solutions can work for you:
1. Review and fine-tune your business plan. Be sure to discern your competitive landscape and benchmark your main competitors.
2. Bring on the A team – both in staff and advisors. Recruitment and training will remain important, and seek the best mentors and professionals for inspiration to help you […]

How the hell people expect to get hired sending resumes with stupid things written on it? Come on, stop pretending your Mr Chavez! Avoid such things like:
1. I am very detail-oreinted.
2. My intensity and focus are at inordinately high levels, and my ability to complete projects on time is unspeakable.
3. Thank you for your consideration. […]

Leesburg Today:
Cheryl Harris, owner of Conscious Creations, found her business because she wanted to help others. After more than 10 years in corporate America, she looked for a job that would make her feel fulfilled. ‘I worked my way up from secretary to contracts manager,’ she recalled. ‘I reached a point where I looked after […]

The Heights:
Do you have any business ideas you don’t know what do with? Mike Michalowicz’s advice might be what you’re looking for. On Monday at 7 p.m. in Devlin 010, the Boston College Entrepreneur Society hosted Michalowicz who spoke about the nature of entrepreneurship and his experiences as an entrepreneur.
Michalowicz, a graduate of Virginia Tech, […]

WebWire:
Business Coaching Company, BusinessCoach.com, is eager to welcome passionate entrepreneurs into their business coach training programs and share Business Ideas that will not only shape the future of how industry leaders do business, but shape the careers of newly certified business coaches as well. Business coach training programs are open to anyone with an interest […]

Mark Bridge says that a computer and phone is all you need to join the internet entrepreneurs.

Times Online:
You may use the internet to save money, but are you also logging on to make it? Don Tapscott, co-author of Wikinomics, a new book, explains that the web has forced a rapid ‘democratisation of wealth creation’.
Anyone with […]

Home Biz Notes:
* Tell a customer they’re wrong or stupid and don’t know what they’re talking about… even when they have no clue
* Don’t worry about meeting deadlines for producing an item or providing a service
* Ignore a customer’s complaints
* Fail to file taxes because it’s ‘just a little business’
* Pay employees ‘under […]