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Get self motivated by this video from Scott Geller, an Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, in which he explained how competence, consequence, choice and community can be leveraged to achieve self-motivation and also to help motivate others.

Find out how you can program your mind for success in the video below by…

My top 10 favorite quotes on persistence

Here are my 10 best quotes addressing the need to press on and never give up, even in the face of oppositions, difficulties or challenges. I hope it inspires you in one way or another too:

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How to spot real entrepreneurial opportunities

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Entrepreneurs are known to spot and exploit opportunities but the challenge, mostly for aspiring business owners, is where to find such a moment or situation in which something entrepreneurial can be done.

The good news is that opportunities are everywhere. What sometimes needs to change is how and where you look for one. Some words, used or spoken around us daily, are…

6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise

Meet other Social Impacters in Academia and Industry Practice at the 6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise coming up in Belgium at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). It will hold from  July 3-6, 2017 and this year’s theme is “Social enterprise for sustainable societies”.

It promises to be loaded. Reduced registration fees for PhD students…

3 Lessons Entrepreneurs must learn from Street Fundraisers

Street fundraisers raise donations for a particular cause or campaign on the streets. You probably have been approached by one or more whilst walking down the high street or market squares, as they are growing in number due to its effectiveness in generating revenues for charities or non-governmental organizations. Having participated in various forms of face-to-face fundraising myself (mall,…

Three reasons why you need a mentor as a Start-up Entrepreneur

Although, we human beings have the capacity to do anything we set our minds to do, attempting to do everything as a start-up entrepreneur can be overwhelming. The road to entrepreneurial success is filled with points of emotional highs and lows that require the expertise of someone experienced in that field of play. Great mentors can help you avoid a feeling of complacency which might set in…

How to Test and Validate Your New Business Idea

You have a creative and awesome business idea that could potentially revolutionize an industry and create a new normal. If no one is willing to pay for it, it is worthless. To find out if your idea is solving a real need that customers are willing to pay for, you need to do a market research to test and validate your idea before investing your time, energy and money in a product or service that…

In my last post on ” how to test and validate your new business idea “, the third step included creating a Customer Persona. This can enable you to understand your target market and tailor your product/service development or marketing strategy in a value adding way. This is usually carried out when you have already started your business, have a customer base and looking to grow and increase…

Check out this Infographic on 10 tips to get started on being your own boss from Evan Carmichael. I find the tips quite inspirational !!

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Starting a business has it’s challenges, so also is growing it. A lot of start-up entrepreneurs, with their businesses, have fizzled out because they cannot cope with the challenges of growing a business. The following articles explains the 7 key challenges, businesses in the growth phase, faces and how to meet them.

THE CHALLENGES OF GROWING A BUSINESS – AND HOW TO MEET…

HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS A START-UP ENTREPRENEUR

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There is never a better time to start or grow your business than now judging by the social media statistics for 2015as published by the Digital Information World. The internet offers a lot of promising opportunities as 3-5billion people are predicted to come online in the next 5years due to the world becoming increasingly hyper connected. You as a start-up entrepreneur…

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In my previous post on “How to use social media platforms as a start-up entrepreneur“, four ways in which social media can be used were shared. These platforms have been commonly used by organizations for marketing their products and services. In order to launch a successful social media marketing campaign for your start-up, you need a plan. The following article by Evan…