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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Joel Weldon
Get some inspiration from one of the country’s top motivational speakers.
Recent Articles
This Is Not Your Daddy’s Company Anymore
Years ago, building a company meant buying a storefront on a corner in your neighborhood. Your loved ones spread the word and loyal friends and family members kept you in business. You had to be physically close to your customers to provide products and services for...
How Technology is Reshaping Today’s Business Climate
After the Industrial Revolution, the world of business stayed consistent for about a century. That being said, the idea of that kind of thing ever happening again is pretty much out of the question. We’re living in a time where technology progresses faster than we can...
A Leading Question
If you’re like most people, you enjoy doing things you’re good at. Ever notice that? What you like to do, you’re good at, and what you don’t like to do, you’re not good at. It’s the same with your employees and associates.
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Be Blogging
Picture this: You have a great idea for a product and you build up a business around it. It takes off for a while - you’ve got a great team with a common vision and great marketing ideas. Maybe your business does well...for a while. Then sales start to suffer....
Tax Tips For The End of The Year
The end of the year can be an overwhelming time for anyone, and that is especially true for business owners. When you’re trying to wrap up the year successfully, it can feel nearly impossible to enjoy the holidays. With everything on your to-do list, worrying about...
One Moment In Time
Are you too tough on yourself? Did you ever mess up and keep re-living the mistake? Have you ever dropped the ball at a critical moment and never gotten over it? If you said “yes” to any of those three questions this true story might help you live your life from a...
Attitude of Gratitude
Joel, why are thank you notes so important? Thank you notes are one of the little things that so few people take the time to do! Their importance was made clear to me years ago when I received a letter from someone who had attended one of my seminars for Dean Witter,...
The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit
For every 10 entrepreneurs, eight of them fail within the first 18 months of operation. There are hundreds of arguments for why that happens and you can find tips anywhere for how to try and avoid being part of that 80 percent. But how can you tell which tips are...
Do Millenials Care About the Security of Personal Information?
When I was a junior in college, my computer got hacked. It was a silly mistake that anyone older and wiser than a naive 20-year-old college student would know how to avoid, but it put me in some serious trouble. I had all my security information on my computer - I...
News From the President 12/2018
Hello fellow entrepreneurs! So many exciting things planned for 2019, but let's first cover some of the events as we wind down in 2018. I attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners conference in San Francisco this past month. So much is being...
Boosting Your Sales This Cyber Monday
Ever since I can remember, my mom and I have made it a tradition to get up early on Black Friday and get our Christmas shopping done. Every year, my mom asks me if I “still want to get up early” to go shopping, and every year, I say, “duh.” Of course, Black Friday has...
Improving Your Thanksgiving Conversation
If you’re like me, Thanksgiving can kind of be a gamble when it comes to table conversation. Some years, the family can keep things light and fun and we end the holiday with big smiles and full bellies. Other times, someone makes the mistake of bringing up politics or...