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
The Spoils of Working From Home
In today’s ever-changing marketplace, where technology and schedule flexibility are kings, it’s time to reckon with the writing on the wall. It’s never been more apparent than in the last decade that things are changing for the better for the modern entrepreneur. The...
Hiring a Team as an Entrepreneur
If you are an entrepreneur committed to your business, you can see how you are growing in different ways every day. But there will come a time when you are no longer able to handle everything on your own. That is the moment when you need to start thinking about hiring...
5 Marketing Tips to Grow Your Business
The start of the new year gets everybody motivated to set new goals for their everyday life. Your business goals ought to be included as well. The early months of the year is the right time to take the next step forward in your professional life. If you are an...
Juggling Life at Work and Home
There’s no such thing as a perfect life, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for what our perfect life looks like in the real world. You’re going to get sidetracked. The sooner you accept that, the easier it will be. Even if you make a concrete hierarchy of what...
Looking Forward to the Sentient Future of Small Business
We’ve all been exposed to at least one sci-fi story about how humans struggle to defeat a sentient supercomputer as it wreaks havoc on a now-obsolete world. Well — for now at least — it’s looking more and more like we’re going to be singing their praises instead of...
A Simple Guide to Hiring Smarter
For many entrepreneurs and first time small-business owners, the hiring process may seem like learning a foreign language. You started this project by yourself or with a small team, now you’ve grown it to the point where expansion isn’t just an option — it’s...
Reasons to Start Your Own Business
Thinking about starting your own business can be scary. First of all, you don't know where to start. Perhaps the most relevant question one could ask about this problem is this: How can a simple idea become a reality? When the first idea comes to mind, that’s...
What it Takes to Start a Business
Our aspirations change as we get older and gain more independence and insight into how the world actually works. When we were kids, we dreamt big. As we hit our late teens and early 20s, we may have settled into careers we didn’t like. But then came the breaking...
Important Facets of Finance Management
Keeping an ever-watchful eye on your expenditures takes the guesswork out of running a successful venture. As any experienced entrepreneur will tell you, growth and money go hand in hand. Sometimes it’s not so much about making boundless profits as it is about...
Marketing for One, Marketing for All
Marketing starts with connections and ends with interactions. The sooner and more efficiently you’re able to reach your clientele, the better results and more patronage you will experience as a result. By looking to those who have been through exactly what you’re...
3 Tactics Every Entrepreneur Should Master
Being a business owner is the ultimate juggling act. You need to know how to run a business, hire new employees, tackle taxes, market your product, the list goes on and on. When learning how to handle all of this at once, it’s understandable when some things get swept...
Uncommon Marketing for the Common Man
In today’s business climate, your best bet in marketing doesn’t have to involve renting the biggest billboard in town. Although the garden-variety methods of marketing all still hold true to some extent — TV commercials, handbills, punch cards — we no longer need to...