Jan 11, 2019 | Hiring And Labor
What to Keep in Mind When Bringing on Employees Very, very seldom are successful businesses run by one person. It’s just not practical. While many of the companies you admire — or even your own business — started in garages or spare bedrooms or on rundown personal...
Jan 11, 2019 | Technology
Commerce has gone digital; there’s no way around it. Long gone are the days when specialty shops lined our towns’ main streets, and gone with them are the mom and pop stores that used to pepper the corners of our avenues. In their stead, a near-infinite hail of...
Jan 11, 2019 | Start A Business
Starting a Business Isn’t Always About What You Do, but What You Give Starting an innovative business isn’t all paperwork and careful planning. Inception begins with a moment of inspiration. Maybe your new business venture launched the moment you got fed up with...
Jan 4, 2019 | Hiring And Labor
Why Having a Coach in Your Corner Gives you the Upper Hand The road the entrepreneur walks can be a lonely one, especially when you’re just starting out. As with anything that requires you to stick your neck out to follow a dream, it can often be confusing, especially...
Jan 4, 2019 | Inspiration
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...
Jan 2, 2019 | Newsletters
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...
Dec 29, 2018 | AFEUSA News
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...
Dec 29, 2018 | AFEUSA News
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,...
Dec 20, 2018 | Inspiration
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...
Dec 20, 2018 | 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...