psychology
How Your Attitude Can Win You Sales
Being successful at selling isn't about your product. It's about your personality. Here are three ways to harness the power of a great attitude to close even the toughest sale.
Have a Burning Business Question? Ask the Expert
Business consultant Joshua Medcalf wants to answer your big questions about launching and growing a small business.
5 Keys for Effectively Dealing with Criticism
Being an entrepreneur means making a lot of important decisions, and the decisions you make will often please some, and displease others. Some people might even go to the extent of publicly criticizing you for some of your decisions.  And …
What Bad Looks Like (and What it Means for Your Business)
My wife and I recently stayed at a nationally affiliated "luxury" hotel in Miami and learned a lot about customer service…the hard way. Being Okay with Blown Expectations: Staying at a nice hotel ($350+/night) and being willing to pay $25/person …
As the Office Turns: How to Deal with Workplace Gossip
Most business owners welcome positive discussions between their employees about their business. On the other hand, negative discussions that can be seen as gossip are problematic. Gossip comes naturally to us, because people generally find it much easier to talk …
Personal Connections in a High-Tech World
Can high-tech really be high-touch? The following video explores the importance of personal connections in business and the technologies that are emerging to bring those connections to long distance business situations. What do you think? Is it important to feel …
Are You Running a Game on Your Customers? Consider Most Of Them See It.
The other day my wife, daughter and I went out for my birthday dinner. It was the restaurant my 5 year old chose (of course…). Once we got seated the waitress came over and asked what we’d like to drink. …
Top Blog Awards – Best Motivational Blogs
Last month, we launched our new annual blog awards series for recognizing our favorite blogs from a variety of categories. The team at YoungEntrepreneur.com is full of avid blog readers, and we really do read learn a lot from them …
5 Personality Traits of Happy Entrepreneurs
A while back, when a startup founder mentioned to me that he wasn't sure he had the personality to be an entrepreneur, I realized how important that insight was. My first thought is that if you are more annoyed than …
Invest in Yourself
The return on investment by investing in your business — and therefore yourself — offers higher rewards and lower risks than trying to beat the stock market or going all in on the latest pyramid scheme. That's not to say …
Entrepreneurs – Are They Made OR Born? Finally Proof…
Gabcast! YE BizBytes #11 – Are Entrepreneurs Made or Born? The age old dispute is settled once and for all by http://www.YoungEntrepreneur.com ‘s lead business coach, Dan Nichols. The answer is… sorry ya gotta listen.
