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Effective Entrepreneur information and solutions - the musings of an Entrepreneur for Entrepreneurs. Be sure to look at my Online Business site for web development and online business ideas - www.leapingahead.net. Join me on all social media too for updates and information.

Business Plan Basics

Business Plan Basics
I'm often asked by new Entrepreneurs how to put a business plan together and it seems to be the one thing that people have more questions about than answers.  In this section I will discuss the document and I will follow up in another blog a financial plan outline which should always accompany ...

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The Confidence Gap and how it's affecting your Business

The Confidence Gap and how it's affecting your Business
We are all somewhere on the scale of confidence and people will think we have too much or too little depending on where their level of confidence lies.  Let me start out by defining what confidence is: full trust; belief in oneself and one's personal power or abilities, trustworthiness, self-a...
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Do your customers need a Push or a Pull?

Do your customers need a Push or a Pull?
As humans we are emotional beings, even the least emotional amongst us will base their decisions on some degree of emotion while otheres base all their decisions on emotion or intuition.  Today, it is the businesses that understand this best who will develop the most success for themselves. You...
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Not another coach!

Not another coach!
Having been a qualified and accredited Coach for almost 15 years, I have seen the coaching industry go from an unknown entity to an industry that is over populated with coaches with diverse specialities, of all levels of skill, experience and knowledge.  It seems today that everyone you speak t...
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TO Blog or NOT to Blog?

TO Blog or NOT to Blog?
Blogging has been a phenomena for over a decade now and there are now many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of blogs.  So have made people famous, some have made people rich and famous and the large majority of blogs languish on unknown sites unread and also never updated.  I am fre...
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Stop Wasting Your Time !

Stop Wasting Your Time !
What is the most valuable commodity in the world today?  Once it is gone it cannot be recovered, it cannot be replaced, what is it - TIME.  When your time is gone it is gone, no amount of appeal, crying or begging will bring it back to you. This blog was inspired by the wannabe Entrepreneu...
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EVENT: Awesome Woman

EVENT: Awesome Woman
  We're all awesome women, right?  Yes indeed we are but one of the things that I hear most often from women is the things that they don't have the confidence to do ... for example: "I would love to do ... but I just don't think I can" "I would have said something but I didn't want to offe...

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Mark Zuckerberg's 10 Business Book Reading LIst

I recently mentioned that all great Entrepreneurs are constantly reading to improve their knowledge, gain new insights and see new trends, Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook) is a clear example.  Knowing that he is a social media guru it is interesting to see how he is looking at the world with a global perspective and getting to understand different cultures.

Below are some books he recently disclosed to Business Insider, UK, that he is reading:

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Should you be paying these fees?

Should you be paying these fees?

As I work with clients throughout Europe it has been incredible to note that since July 2015 SEPA came into effect and still there are banks that are trying to charge clients fees for international (European) transfers!

SEPA (The Single Euro Payments Area) is a payment-integration initiative by the European Union for the simplification of bank transfers denominated in Euros. As at July 2015, SEPA consists of the 28 member states of the European Union, the four member states of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), Andorra, Monaco and San Marino.

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Is it time?

Is it time?

Time, its the only thing there is never enough of and not something anyone can give you, nor is it something you can get back when it is gone!

It's that time of year when we think of the time gone by and make ourselves promises of what the year ahead will bring and truly it is more important than we think.  Time is our most important asset next to health, well without health time changes our perspective, either we know we don't have enough of it left or we feel each moment painfully.  You may disagree with that statement and say money is more important, I can guarantee many dead rich people will disagree with you!

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