The Association for Entrepreneurship USA
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The Association for Entrepreneurship USA serves independent and small business leaders across all 50 states through community involvement, peer mentoring and education. By joining forces for greater purchasing power, we offer todays entrepreneur the competitive edge needed to compete in todays digital world.
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Recent Articles
Managing and Preventing Burnout
Burnout has become an epidemic in the modern workplace, leaving employees exhausted, unmotivated, and struggling to cope. The good news? There are ways to manage and prevent burnout. To begin, it helps to take a closer look at this condition and its causes. What Is...
Relevancy is Essential for Individual Entrepreneurs, Organizations or Corporations
The next few years will reveal pathways to choices and opportunities that will enable new possibilities for relevant individuals and organizations, more so than any other period in recent history. Relevance means being prepared with, perhaps, new knowledge and skills....
Your Business Should Serve Your Life
You became an entrepreneur for a reason — freedom, focus, and a life of deep satisfaction. You were created for a full, vibrant life. There’s a deep wisdom in you, always guiding you toward your true desires — meant to be expressed and lived. Thriving isn’t about...
Understanding People/Building Customers
People are not one dimensional in their thinking about who they are and what matters most. People will determine their priorities by how they perceive “what matters most” at the particular moment in time when they are asked to examine priorities or offered...
5 Insights To Support Growth
Motivation Follows Action, Not the Other Way Around For a long time, we believed dopamine—the brain's "feel-good" chemical—was a reward we got after completing a task . But recent groundbreaking research flipped the script. Dopamine spikes before we take action, not...
Growth: The Most Important Key Performance Indicator
The desire to grow is inherently within most of us. Most kids want to grow. Students typically want to grow and learn. Most adults want to learn more and experience more. As we take on various responsibilities in life and career, we learn to set goals and support them...
A Key Reason to Explore Entrepreneurship
Whenever we experience any form of economic uncertainty, it is natural for workers to become much more sensitive to the relationships between inflation and wages. Workers do not have any control over inflation. The facts are: Most workers, in the traditional workplace...
Optimism Up for Small Business
Despite the uncertainty generated by tariffs and tariff threats, small business owners’ optimism is rising. That’s according to the Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), a lobbying group for small business owners....
The Compliance Conversation Every Insurance Professional Needs to Have
Let’s face it, compliance isn’t the flashiest part of our industry or work model. However, regardless of the work model that you have embraced, compliance is an important topic. In today’s environment, it’s one of the most important. Whether you're an independent...
Video Conferencing is Essential
If there is one tool that I personally consider to be important to the day-to-day activities of those of us who work as Individual Entrepreneurs, it is the use of a video conference tool. There are many video conference tools to select from and, regardless of what...
AFE Testimonial
From time to time we receive testimonials regarding the value of AFE Membership to members. AFE Members represent all forms of entrepreneurship, even students and those who are leading projects to create entrepreneurial possibilities. The following is an excerpt from...
Reflections on Tax Time
April is known as much for being “tax time” as it is for being the month where we usually expect more showers that pave the way for May flowers. All forms of entrepreneurship require the entrepreneur to own the process of ensuring taxes are filed in a timely fashion....