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
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!
Just before the game was to begin, the home team players formed a tight huddle around their coach. Who’s gonna win? he asked. “WE ARE!” they yelled. Then go to it! he screamed, and the starting five thundered onto the court.
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...
DECA AZ Prepares Students to be the Next Generation of Business Leaders
Arizona DECA was established in 1961 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, held by the Arizona Department of Education, that engages and equips students in high schools and colleges throughout the state.
Happy New Year! A message from AFE President Charles Jackson
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, employment figures at their best in decades and with many Americans enjoying added growth in their savings and retirement accounts, let’s use this momentum to continue our successes into 2019!
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...
The Continuing Upward Spiral of Growth
There is no mountain of success, no summit to be climbed as a final destination. There is only the continuing upward spiral of perpetual growth and successful progress.
Writing Successful Business Plans For The New Year
As 2018 has come to a close, we’ve done a ton to make the new year transition as smooth as possible. We’ve wrapped up 2018 and we’re ready to welcome 2019. But as the end of the year can be a crazy time for business owners, so too is the beginning of one. You’ve got...
How To Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Opportunities to work from home can be both a blessing and a curse - something I am all too familiar with. Creating your own office space gives you much more freedom to work on your own and in your own way, but your own home can also be chock-full of distractions that...