During years of interacting with over a thousand business owners I often mused over that question. I live in Southern California, so businesses created or owned by immigrants are as plentiful here as sunshine. My personal “eyeballs and conversations” research has brought me many interesting encounters in that diverse and dynamic small business community. For […]
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In 2009 on a day when I was feeling rather lost and bewildered in digital Hell, I posted a blog on Huffington Post under this same title. Fourteen years later as our lives seem to be increasingly lived online or through an app, you too probably have some customer service grievances. I feel that customer
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Because I’ve dealt with over a thousand business owners and put their stories on our Making It TV show, people ask me many questions. One of the most common questions is “what business do you think I could succeed in?” Then I usually begin asking that person questions about their passionate interests’ hobbies, and what
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As a smart, ambitious, and aware business owner, have you ever wished that you could achieve financial results similar to those of Elon Musk? To be truthful I think most of us would love to have a few financial slices of Musk’s business life, but we really wouldn’t want to live it in his non-stop
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If you live in California, have you noticed that electric vehicles (EV’s) on our roads seem to be multiplying like mushrooms after a rainstorm? I admit to being a ‘car-guy’ and to liking the look of some battery powered cars so much that I’m tempted to at least test drive one of these beauties. Since
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The people who’ve inspired and encouraged me People pictured on this page are business founders or growth drivers that I’ve learned important lessons from. Perhaps the most useful is that a college degree, a specific gender or family business heritage were not a requirement. I learned that when you have an idea that gives you
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Everywhere we look, businesses are beating the bushes in search of customers, but the same enterprises are pinching and squeezing on customer service The older I get, the more I enjoy a helpful interchange with people who work diligently for businesses of any size. But, with each passing day, businesses who covet my dollars seem
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If you expect the government to somehow guarantee that you’ll have a better life than your parents, own a home, or be promoted to vice president of a giant corporation, that is more fantasy than a dream. This first reading material that I picked up this morning contained an article with the provocative title “The
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As we move forward in the New Year, I’m hoping that your to-do list as well as mine has a close relationship to our goals! The first time I recall hearing a public declaration of a ‘goal’ was in 1961 when I was too young to fully know the dimensions and importance of goal setting.
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I’m wondering how many entrepreneurial dreamers have now lost their excuses regarding launching or growing a business thanks to the yearlong pandemic. Over many years interviewing hundreds of business owners I’ve heard many of them firsthand. The most popular and thinnest excuse of all was “I just don’t have the time” which I interpret as
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