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Carol Roth asks, “Is entrepreneurship worth it…for YOU?”

If you haven’t read Carol Roth’s book, The Entrepreneur Equation, and have any notions of starting (or continuing with) your own business, stop reading this post and buy it at the link above pronto. I devoured this book, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller, for many reasons and thought it to be…
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What are your social media pet peeves?

Today’s question: When is social media so pervasive that it starts to impact our lives in a negative way? I admit it. I was dragged kicking and screaming to the social media world. While I’ve been on Linked In since it launched in the early 2000’s and I have blogged for quite some time, I…
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“We’re not selling/writing for strangers anymore”

If you are a writer, marketer, content provider, or entrepreneur, please spend 26 minutes listening to this insightful interview with Seth Godin on the Zen Habits website. In it, he talks about not only the state of publishing today, but how to build an audience, what it means to fail and how to finally let…
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