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
Find the Inspiration in Your Business
Inspiration can be hard to come by sometimes. As we age, flashes of brilliance may seem to strike more scarcely as other factors in our lives slowly crowd out our creative faculties. But we can all take solace in the fact that they will come back again: The fire will...
The Art to Working From Home
There are endless possibilities for using technology to our advantage, especially within the domain media has allowed us to build around ourselves. And depending on your business, there’s a good chance that you, the modern entrepreneur, might find that you’re able to...
High Tech, Small Business
Our lives are deeply immersed in technology wherever we turn. From the screens in our pockets to the screens on our dashboards to the screens of our televisions, we are constantly and relentlessly bombarded by marketing. If everybody from the local hotdog stand to the...
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 building...
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...