We are living in a moment of abundant opportunities. Perhaps this sounds unrealistic and/or untimely given the tragic loss of so many lives and livelihoods during this pandemic. But the pandemic taught us all a lot; primarily about ourselves and others. We have all felt the magnitude of the moment and the varying degrees of adversity we have all been…
Should you put your money into PR or marketing?
As President of a public relations firm for the past decade, potential clients always come to me and ask the same question: “Do I need PR or marketing?” Before I can answer, the next question is: “What is the difference between PR and marketing?”
How to make faster and better business decisions
Blenders Pride Reserve Collection presents Entrepreneur’s 35U35 list, which includes some path-breaking names from the field of entrepreneurship. Conversational Artificial Intelligence start-up Haptik founder Aakrit Vaish recently forayed into voice bot space, manufacturing a bot that…
Want a successful business? Focus on these 5 things
It shocks me to see how many entrepreneurs continue to get in their own way by focusing on the wrong things in business. There’s no reason to make success hard when it’s easy.
Don’t focus on what you don’t know at first you’ll just get frustrated and stuck. Focus instead on what you can do and keep going to gain momentum…
5 steps to take control of your personal brand
It’s not an easy feat to become a millionaire and surely, lots of lessons are learned along the way. For Entrepreneur Network partner Jack Canfield, reaching this personal milestone has brought much wisdom along the way.
For instance, if you were feeling unhappy before you made a million dollars, chances are you will be unhappy after. To Canfield, an influx…
Learning lessons from leading lights on constructing a meaningful company purpose
In July last year, I wrote a blog for Blueprint for Better Business called Piffle or Pertinent: Does your company have a meaningful purpose? in which I lamented how few companies were developing purposes that really leveraged what they had to offer society. To reduce the number of companies producing purposes that are, in the words of...
Develop purpose, and the profits will flow
Entrepreneurs possess a special kind of grit. They reach higher, do more and expect rewards for their efforts. But one colossal blunder many budding entrepreneurs make is initially putting too much emphasis on the profit portion of business…