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Harness Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

Written by Claudette Rowley

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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

- Miles Davis -

Recently, a friend asked me, "What do you love about entrepreneurs?" I think what I enjoy repparttar 117117 most is repparttar 117118 *spirit* of entrepreneurship.

I define this spirit as one of risk taking, innovation, and pushing repparttar 117119 limits of what's known and understood. Entrepreneurs dream up visions. And when they make these visions real, they create value - financial, social or cultural. Entrepreneurs view change as a force of possibility rather than as a creator of problems. To paraphrase Miles Davis, entrepreneurs play what's not there.

The Entrepreneurship Center at repparttar 117120 Miami University of Ohio speaks to this spirit: "Entrepreneurship is repparttar 117121 process of identifying, developing, and bringing a vision to life. The vision may be an innovative idea, an opportunity, or simply a better way of doing something. The end result of this process is repparttar 117122 creation of a new venture, formed under conditions of risk and considerable uncertainty."

Throughout my coaching experience, I've noticed a particular mindset that helps to form repparttar 117123 foundation from which this entrepreneurial spirit emerges. One way of describing this mindset is internal focus. Internal focus means that what goes on inside of your head and your heart greatly effects what happens for you in repparttar 117124 outside world.

It's often not repparttar 117125 external trappings - repparttar 117126 MBA or repparttar 117127 business seminars - that make or break an entrepreneur. It's repparttar 117128 internal focus of believing in yourself, listening to your intuition and tuning into your emotions that allows repparttar 117129 entrepreneurial spirit of dreaming BIG to spring forth. By managing fear so that it doesn't become an obstacle, you are able to harness opportunity. Self-trust is paramount for risk-taking.

Market From The Inside Out

Written by Claudette Rowley

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"Do not follow where repparttar 117116 path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Robert Frost

Marketing, promotion, visibility - our businesses would wither away way without it. Some of us are natural-born marketers; for others, it's a learned skill.

Most business-owners with an on-line presence are familiar with repparttar 117117 multitude of methods to drive traffic to their web sites. Some write articles, some join affiliate programs, and other focus on search engine positioning or pay per click technologies. Buying ads and exchanging links are all common strategies.

Other businesses focus on an off-line approach: networking, leads groups, public speaking, and word of mouth referral. Others use a combination of an on-line/off-line approach. The marketing possibilities are endless.

When deciding on repparttar 117118 right marketing strategy, we often tend to examine what will work externally out in repparttar 117119 marketplace, and overlook what works internally for us. What are repparttar 117120 marketing strategies that are in harmony with your inner purpose?

Here are some points to ponder before you take action:

* Get clear about who you are and what you have to offer. In other words, know your inner purpose. Once you're clear about your inner purpose, it can take many external forms.

Perhaps your inner purpose is to create beauty in repparttar 117121 world. This could take a host of external forms - designer, artist, florist, architect - just to name a few. If your inner purpose is to help others become more self-aware, you could be a coach, a writer or a minister, for example. Maybe you're clear that you want to help others create businesses that support not only their bank accounts, but their lifestyles as well. Or your inner purpose is to make people's lives easier and you do that by creating innovative technologies.

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