Why Everyone Should Experience Rejection
Everyone dreams of having a perfect rejection-free life. We want things to work out exactly the way we originally planned and live a life of success after success. Unfortunately, that’s never how life works out. Rather than a steady, forward motion, life is more like...
Bridging the Gap Between Family and Work
The work-life balance is a delicate thing. It can sometimes feel like putting more effort into one takes away from the other, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If we took as much time to plan as we did to worry, we wouldn’t have anything to worry about in the first...
Tips for Finagling Your Business’ Finances
Proactively gauging how well you’re handling your company’s finances will help in the prevention of costly errors. Finance is the alpha and omega of any business: No matter how pure your intentions are for your venture, none of the good you do would be possible...
Higher Quality Hiring
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...
Taking Advantage of Social Media
Social media can warrant all sorts of well-deserved reactions, and personal perceptions. Social media seemed to show up overnight and before anyone realized, it was ruling the world. Only recently have colleges and universities begin to offer Social Media majors, as...
Getting The Most Out of Your eCommerce
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...
Successful Startups
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...
Technology Doesn’t Have to be Confusing
Buying the right IT programs can be a pain – where does one even begin to look, and how can you know if you’re buying the right program for you and your business? Cue Trapp Technology. Trapp works with their customers to simplify technology requirements by...
Mastering the Domain of Content Marketing
The Know-How to Pull in an Audience with Creative Content Why You Should be Creating and Publishing Content for Your Audience The umbrella of content marketing encompasses many aspects of creative advertising, all of which you should utilize to better reach...
Entrepreneurial Coaching Masters
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...
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...
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