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
Creativity Is Within Reach
Just find out what everyone else is doing and don’t do it! A client of ours, John Westman, had been looking for a creative way to deliver a message of love to his wife on her 35th birthday—he’d heard about the idea of a sign behind a small airplane, or spelling...
Building Your Brand As A Blogger
Blogger Branding: Blogger branding: mistakes. A common mistake bloggers make is overlooking the importance of building a brand. They create content according to their heart’s desire but fail to think about the image they want to present to their audience. When you...
Form Follows Function
An architectural theory you can use every day. When the Board of Directors of a mid-sized Eastern college decided to build an extensive addition to their campus, their first step was to hire an architect. Being intelligent men and women, they chose a particularly...
The 4 Levels of Listening: Why Every Good Entrepreneur Should Talk Less
My father has a string of aphorisms he’s been saying for years that still resonate with what’s going on today. One of my favorites is this: “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should spend twice as much time listening as we do talking.” This seems...
Forget Luck
“Good luck,” said the manager to the salesperson leaving for an important sales call. “Wish me luck,” said the student to his mother as he left for school to take an important test. “Boy, were we lucky,” said the lawyer to his partner after winning the case. You’ve...
Setting Freelancer Goals
My first time working full-time in a newsroom, my team would meet at least once a week to discuss our company goals and progress. While setting goals as a freelancer might be a little different, it’s equally as important. Why? Because goals help you grow....
I-B-M, R&D, And Y-O-U
The best investment you can make. I-B-M stands for International Business Machines--- what a brilliantly successful company! Sales are approaching $100 billion dollars annually! R&D stands for research and development, something IBM spends over 6% of its gross...
John T. Smith, Professional
More than anything else, what do you think sets the true professional apart from the others? Chances are, nearly everything a true professional does will set him or her apart as someone special. But, if you don’t want to identify who’s a pro and who isn’t, you don’t...
Old Dogs And New Tricks
How to stay young despite your age. They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what do you think about that? Is improving and growing a trick? No! And people aren’t dogs! People can continue to learn and improve regardless of the dates on their birth...
Pistons Of Power
Anything is possible, if you never look back. What limitation, right now, seems to be keeping you from doing something you want to do? Regardless of your answer, there’s a person who would vehemently disagree with you. She proved that whatever it is you think you...
Acing A Freelance Pitch
In my perfect world, all my freelancing clients reach out to me and ask me to write pieces for them. Editors from around the world beg for the opportunity to ready my work. Unfortunately, most of the time, I have to be the one reaching out to potential...
Places In The Mind
Man continually proves he can do anything. On May 6, 1954 a British medical student stunned the world by running one mile in three minutes, 59.4 seconds. Until then a sub-four-minute mile was believed impossible. Doctors said nobody’s heart and lungs could pump blood...