Hitting the Social Media Marketplace for all it’s Worth
Social Media, Marketing Lore, and You Learning What Social Media Can do for You In the digital age, you’d be hard-pressed to find a logical reason to ignore the potential of social media. Its influence is everywhere we turn; its scope stretching out from third-world...
You Need A Hoop!
If you don’t have goals, you probably won’t play People sometimes ask, ”Why do I need goals?” The answer would be obvious if you were a spectator at this imaginary basketball game – the last of a championship series. Both teams were fighting-fit. You could see...
Creating a Business Budget
Creating a budget for your business can be one of the most frustrating and frightening aspects about starting a new business. Not only are you putting part of your personal budget toward your business; the business requires a completely separate budget of its own...
Bad Business Habits to Stop NOW
Every true entrepreneur wants his or her business to succeed, but unfortunately, a huge percentage of business owners fail within the first two years. Now that we’re into 2019, it’s important to know how to keep your business thriving for yet another year. You could...
January 2019 Newsletter
This Month’s TOPIC // Identifying Today’s Entrepreneur: How This Generation Is Reshaping The Mold This Is Not Your Daddy’s Company Anymore Business owners with original ideas used to be able to buy a factory and get their product marching out in...
DECA AZ Prepares Students to be the Next Generation of Business Leaders
AFE President, Charles Jackson, along with the Phoenix DECA student governing Board during a recent student competition. In 1959, Eugene L. Dorr wrote to education teacher-coordinators in Arizona saying “our responsibility begins and ultimately ends with the student...
Happy New Year! A message from AFE President Charles Jackson
Happy New Year! We hope that you enjoyed this past Holiday Season with your family and friends! As we enter into a new year, we should all take just a moment to refresh our outlook and perspective on our personal and business goals. With the economy moving forward,...
What Skills Determine a Leader
I’ve met several people who have struggled to run businesses and even had to close their businesses because they lacked quality leadership skills. Maybe they don’t work as well with others as they thought or simply don’t fully understand what it means to be a leader....
Maintaining Your Business Resolutions Throughout The Year
Let’s be real here: how often do we promise to commit to our new year’s resolutions, only to forget about it by February? Just the other day, I was getting ahead on some of my spring cleaning and I found a list I had made to ensure I stuck to my 2018 resolutions. It...
Writing Successful Business Plans For The New Year
As 2018 has come to a close, we’ve done a ton to make the new year transition as smooth as possible. We’ve wrapped up 2018 and we’re ready to welcome 2019. But as the end of the year can be a crazy time for business owners, so too is the beginning of one. You’ve got...
How To Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Opportunities to work from home can be both a blessing and a curse – something I am all too familiar with. Creating your own office space gives you much more freedom to work on your own and in your own way, but your own home can also be chock-full of...
This Is Not Your Daddy’s Company Anymore
Years ago, building a company meant buying a storefront on a corner in your neighborhood. Your loved ones spread the word and loyal friends and family members kept you in business. You had to be physically close to your customers to provide products and services for...
How Technology is Reshaping Today’s Business Climate
After the Industrial Revolution, the world of business stayed consistent for about a century. That being said, the idea of that kind of thing ever happening again is pretty much out of the question. We’re living in a time where technology progresses faster than we can...
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Be Blogging
Picture this: You have a great idea for a product and you build up a business around it. It takes off for a while – you’ve got a great team with a common vision and great marketing ideas. Maybe your business does well…for a while. Then sales start to...
Tax Tips For The End of The Year
The end of the year can be an overwhelming time for anyone, and that is especially true for business owners. When you’re trying to wrap up the year successfully, it can feel nearly impossible to enjoy the holidays. With everything on your to-do list, worrying about...
December 2018 Newsletter
This Month’s TOPIC // Closing the Year 4 Things to Add to Your End-of-the-Year Checklist The end of the year is the perfect time for business owners to reflect on the growth of their business in the last twelve months. It can help to shape the following months,...
The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit
For every 10 entrepreneurs, eight of them fail within the first 18 months of operation. There are hundreds of arguments for why that happens and you can find tips anywhere for how to try and avoid being part of that 80 percent. But how can you tell which tips are...
Do Millenials Care About the Security of Personal Information?
When I was a junior in college, my computer got hacked. It was a silly mistake that anyone older and wiser than a naive 20-year-old college student would know how to avoid, but it put me in some serious trouble. I had all my security information on my computer –...
November 2018 Newsletter
This Month’s TOPIC // Honoring Our Veterans Why America’s Veterans Make the Best Entrepreneurs The men and women who serve our country are some of the most trusted individuals in American society. Notably, 73% of citizens have confidence in the military, the...
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