As the saying goes, “necessity is the mother of invention”.  Also true is the cliché: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.”   So if you’re going through a rough patch, regroup and rethink your entire business.  I strongly advise you to take all of your marketing efforts online because they can be so

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It’s particularly valuable if you can find a business partner who is good at and has a passion for writing.  Being successful today with an ecommerce based real estate business requires having a website with high search engine ranking for your farm area.  You get that by having new written content on your farm area

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Best of all, in working with these investors regularly it’s almost inevitable you’ll start learning their investing strategies.  You also have the great benefit of learn from your investor clients’ errors without losing money yourself.  Most people learn by example and many a real estate sales person has gone on to become a full time

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You are much better off bringing your farm area and your real estate expertise to the forefront of your branding rather than you personally.  It’ll make your business sell much easier and for more money when you retire or decide to do something else for a living.  After all, the law of diminishing returns applies

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However, if you answered mostly Always True or Quite True to most of these questions then I don’t believe entrepreneurship is right for you.  If you are already in real estate sales then you’ve probably haven’t made much money doing it.  Understand that I’m not trying to discourage you from succeeding.  I’m just asking you

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  Here’s the self-evaluation quiz for determining if you’re better suited for being an entrepreneur or an employee.  Answer each question with one of these 4 answers:  always true, quite true, rarely true, or hell, no. 

“You must discover which role suits you best: employee or employer.  Being a successful employee requires continually honing a talent for diplomacy and collaboration.  You’re rewarded with security and a steady salary with fewer of the headaches from which entrepreneurs suffer.  Running a successful business, on the other hand, is an all-consuming, all-encompassing venture, which

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There’s an old adage: “those that can, do.  Those that can’t, teach”.  While not universally true, I believe it’s true in most cases.  There are many a failed or mediocre business person who couldn’t hack it in sales or owning their own business and had to settle for becoming business teachers of some sort at

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Yet here we had this smug, highly irreverent academic asking the Dragons during the meeting if any of them had a business degree.  I don’t know about Jim Treliving but I do know that both Robert Herjavec and Kevin O’Leary have university degrees, albeit not in business.  The academic’s audacity in asking these men such

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Furthermore, the professor’s claims of conflict of interest in this case are complete hogwash.  If anything, a professor so sure of his business knowledge should put his money where his mouth is and contribute at least some (if not all) financial help to these past students of his.  Evidently he had worked closely for perhaps

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