In 1995, I was 24 years old and I had the opportunity to buy a martial arts school from the Master I was originally training with. The school was a year old when I took it over, and at the time the monthly revenue was about the same as the rent so I quickly realized that I needed to institute some things that woul...
There are a lot of things marketing automation software can do for you. It can help you increase traffic, educate and inspire potential customers, and give you a microscopic view of what happens at every step of your buyer’s journey. But like all good things, it’s not quite that simple. It takes a real investment ...
Is your blog getting you down? Do you wonder whether it’s worth all the effort, whether people are really getting something from it, whether you’re “doing it right”? Maybe you think you’re not a writer, or you simply feel like you don’t have the time to write with all the other demands of your small business.
Continuing our Attributes of a Business Leader podcast, EMyth's President Wendy Vinson and Seminar Leader Karin Iwata discuss the common personal attributes successful business leaders possess and how those attributes help them turn intention into action.
Some people start a business because they're passionate about a particular cause and they want their business to have an impact. Some people start a business because they are looking for a better work/life balance. Some are simply looking for more freedom.
E-Myth President, Wendy Vinson interviews Brian Schwartz, entrepreneur and author of the new book: 50 Interviews: Entrepreneurs.
A successful business provides a service or product that expertly fills a specific need in the marketplace. The trick for entrepreneurs is identifying the right product or service for the right space at the right time. April Glavine is one example of an entrepreneur who did just that.
In 2010, it’s estimated that people sent more than 1 trillion emails. That’s a staggering number. And of course, you have to ask yourself: with the plethora of emails being sent every minute of every day, how can you rise above the inbox clutter to reach your prospects?
Former EMyth President,Wendy Vinson interviews Nina Kaufman, a small business attorney, about the three most common questions she gets from her small business clients:
Did you know that your chances of obtaining business financing can increase by more than 250% if you have good business credit? The problem for many business owners is that they think that just because they're in business, they're automatically building the good business history required to get credit. Not necessa...
In this podcast episode, Robby Reynolds, a tax and business consultant and President of The Business Consulting Group in Shelby, North Carolina, joins Wendy Vinson to talk about how small businesses can legally reduce tax liability by taking advantage of certain tax rules.
This week's podcast is about a topic that is top-of-mind for a lot of business owners right now: funding. What kind of business funding is available to small business, how you go about getting it, and what's different about securing funding now during these challenging economic times.
Can your website be your secret weapon? The silver bullet that makes all the difference?
In this podcast, we talk about how to approach overwhelm.
Working with people you have personal relationships with can be a wonderful thing. And it often doesn't turn out that way. It can easily get 'complicated' when you're trying to juggle two kinds of relationships with the same person. And while it's easy enough to say 'just be yourself', we all know that when it com...
In this podcast, we dispel the myth that market research has to be complicated and expensive.
Little gets our entrepreneurial spirits soaring like the vision of ourselves as the CEO of a successful startup. Whether you’re brand new to business or a serial entrepreneur, the allure of starting out from nothing and then building a world-class business is a thrilling concept. But we can’t ignore the risks. Sta...