The Association for Entrepreneurship USA

Success by Association

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.

Discussion Forum

Entrepreneurship can be tough, but you don’t have to go it alone. Connect with other entrepreneurs.

Newsletters

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Library

A collection of resources to help you achieve your entrepreneurial goals.

Joel Weldon

Get some inspiration from one of the country’s top motivational speakers.

Recent Articles

Fixing Your Credit

Fixing Your Credit

Credit scores impact some of the most important moments in our lives. Buying a house, applying for a job, and improving your small business all rely on having a good credit score. Conversely, if your credit is lackluster, all these moments become far more difficult to...

New Technologies for New Business

New Technologies for New Business

Every business owner wants to stay ahead of the game, especially when it comes to the latest technological innovations that help improve the way business is handled. Sometimes, implementing the right technology is what transforms a tedious business process into...

Solutions to Your Marketing Woes

Solutions to Your Marketing Woes

Just like virtually every other field in business, marketing is constantly changing. Marketing managers have to be constantly adapting to new problems in order to keep things running smoothly. With so many moving factors, this can seem like an insurmountable task....

The Inspiration Guru

The Inspiration Guru

There’s a reason why clients all over the country refer to Joel Weldon as the most prepared and useful speaker they’ve ever come across. It’s the same reason why we choose to feature him here at AFE: He’s simply the best. If you’re looking for presentations that cover...

Remote Work Solutions

Remote Work Solutions

Working from home can present some serious hazards. That newfound sense of freedom is a double edged sword, as it can be much harder to provide a consistent work environment with decentralized employees. That’s why it’s so important to identify potential risks and...

What Keeps You Going As An Entrepreneur?

What Keeps You Going As An Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship is a hard path to follow professionally. Sometimes you will experience the best day ever and feel like everything is going in the right way, but you might have the complete opposite feeling the day after. It is hard to see how things might not have...

In Search of the Four-Day Work Week

In Search of the Four-Day Work Week

We’ve been hearing about it for years now, but it’s time to finally take a serious look at how a four-day workweek could impact your life. Besides the obvious bonus of an extended weekend, there could be some unintended side effects. For one, the days you do work...

The Pros and Cons of Job Search Sites

The Pros and Cons of Job Search Sites

For those of you on the job hunt, it may be time to rethink your outreach methods. With today’s myriad of job recruitment services, there is a virtually endless stream of ways to find work. From message boards to resume searching sites to job search engines and...

Keeping Your Head in the Clouds

Keeping Your Head in the Clouds

Small business owners have to be constantly vigilant to stay up to date with our changing times. This means finding the right site to host your data and store your most important documents. The days of filing cabinets are long behind us, as cloud services like Trapp...

The Importance of a Business Plan

The Importance of a Business Plan

Every business idea needs a business plan that will launch it forward successfully. A business plan is what gives your company direction, therefore it is vital for the success of a new organization. If you do not have a business plan, then you will be working blind -...

Reasons to Start a Business

Reasons to Start a Business

You’ve only got so much time ahead of you, so you’d be wise to spend it doing the things you love. Starting your own business can seem like a huge undertaking, but the pride you feel knowing that you’ve seen vision through to fruition is something that just can’t be...

Understanding Marketing

Understanding Marketing

Marketing: Everybody who made it through high school has heard the term a thousand times, but sometimes its true meaning gets lost. We use the word so often in business that it can serve as a catchall for just about every one of our processes. And while that’s true,...