The Upside of Criticism

Learning how to take and receive feedback is critical to your success.

Why is it that performance-driven professions such as sports or the arts are traditionally more successful than the business sector when it comes to cultivating higher levels of human performance? It’s not that companies aren’t trying. Businesses regularly attempt to maximize employee potential through training, reviews and incentives. But, it’s the kind of feedback, instruction and practicing (until it hurts) that’s inherent to sports and the arts which eludes other industries. As a result, companies create environments that are more paranoid than productive. Read more

Success: It’s in the Bag

Sarah Davis built a multimillion-dollar business, one step at a time.

It’s difficult to find a woman who doesn’t love a great purse. From palm-sized to super-sized, exquisitely beaded, lusciously smooth leather or sassy quilted canvas, the perfect bag is like the siren’s call… all but impossible to ignore. That truth, and a desire to pay down college loan debt, led Sarah Davis to create a multimillion-dollar business selling pre-owned designer handbags. Read more

Turn “NO” Into a Powerful Positive

What if, starting today, the word “no” didn’t stop you? What if every time you heard the word no, you became stronger, more powerful, and more resilient? Well, you can. Read more

10 Ways to Leverage Social Media

Build Your Brand, Engage Your Audience and Inspire Sales

Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have become powerful resources for businesses to gain exposure online. You can use these networks to build brand recognition, establish expertise in your field, engage past clients, attract new clients, drive traffic to your Web site and blog, and perhaps, most important, make the cash register ring. Read more

Turning “What If?” into a Multimillion Dollar Business

Persistence, time and energy. That’s the difference between “what if” and product success, and Lori Greiner has all three. After years of having ideas for products and even books and sitting on the sidelines, she grew tired of thinking about what might happen. So when she had a promising idea for an earring organizer, she immediately got to work. Read more

Tap into Social Media

If you are a “digital immigrant” (someone over the age of 30), you may think social media is a waste of time. How can you bring in business when you spend your life online?

My response: “If you’re not using social media, you’re missing the boat!”

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Building a Strong Future

It’s easy for Debra Cohen to remember when she started her business; she marks time by her oldest daughter’s birthday. Cohen launched Home Remedies of NY, her home-based home-remodeling referral business 13 years ago, when her oldest daughter was 6 months old. A need to earn extra cash for her family combined with boredom that set in when she transitioned from full-time employee to stay-at-home mom made starting a business somewhat of a necessity. But determining exactly what type of business—and what business model to use—was a process. Read more

Yes, You Can Build a Business or Launch a Product… Even in This Economy!

On the journey to launch a product idea, the very first step is often the most difficult to take. Why is that? Because you have to know what the first step is. Most people who have never run a business have absolutely no clue what to do with their great idea. Instead of focusing on only step No. 1, they start to paint a big picture, get overwhelmed mentally, and tuck the idea back into their head.

Sound familiar?

Well, maybe it’s finally time to take action. Yes, even in a sluggish economy. Read more

New Learners for the New Economy

While things are looking a little brighter, the economy still seems to be in a bit of free fall. If you aren’t looking for work yourself, you know someone who is searching for a job, who just graduated, or is tuning up their skills so they don’t get permanently furloughed or downsized.

What qualities do you need as a learner to adapt to our new economy? What learning attributes do employers seek in the flatter, fragmented and constantly changing workplace? Many of the ways we were taught to be learners in school stand in direct contrast to the qualities we need in today’s economy and job market. Read more

From Minimum Wage to Rooftop Gardens

Teresa Carleo’s client roster reads like a who’s who in New York real estate development. But her success started with the question, “What am I going to do with my life?”
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