“Earn that sunrise! You want it? Work for it!” It’s the day before the Labor Day holiday and I go see a good friend of mine to help him clean his garage and load up some furniture to be donated to Good Will. Anytime we see each other, we talk about how we used to...

According to Merriam-Webster, burnout is exhaustion of physical or emotional strength or motivation, usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration. This accurately describes many in the workplace today and can be especially true for entrepreneurs. A 2015 survey of 242 entrepreneurs found that 49% were dealing with one or more mental health concerns....

Hey MOMS?! Are you living your “entrepreneur” life yet? Why not? Is “work” in the way? Husband and kids not letting you get your things done? I never once thought I would be an entrepreneur, or better yet, be able to live my dream of one day owning my own business with my husband. I...

The Human Resources (HR) department is crucial for both the management and development of employees in any kind of organization, including small businesses. Having an HR position in your small company helps achieve peak performance. Generally, most businesses start small and eventually grow, but what really helps them survive and prosper are many factors, and...

When it comes to investing money, everyone seems to have advice, however, the vast majority of investors today have very little experience picking good investments. The advice given often is just recycled stock tips overheard at the office, or at best, from a pundit with a stock market recap show. Far too often, the end...

I think multi-level affiliate marketing is best, which is the whole reason I created Smartr Marketing, but since it is a new concept to some, a lot of people may not know the difference… or that there is a better to option to begin with. So, getting back to basics, is affiliate marketing better? Or...

That thought has never made any sense to me either. I always think it’s funny whenever a company charges me full price but the tells me they will give my friend a discount if I refer someone to them. It makes very little sense to me. If anything, I need to be rewarded for sending...

One day, I woke up and said “this is not it!” There has to be something bigger and more to life than just going to work every day doing the same thing over and over. Way too redundant for me. Doesn’t anybody want to be free? They can go where they want, when they want,...

Social entrepreneurship is closely related to welfare because social welfare emerges when creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are developed together… creating a ‘cluster of value’ that appears when several value chains are bundled together, thus resulting in increased employment.  Social entrepreneurship is all about recognizing social problems and achieving a social change by employing entrepreneurial principles,...

If I were to break down the difference between price and cost, I would simply say that PRICE is what you pay for something at the register or during the point of the sale, while COST is how much that thing ends up costing you over time. I remember years ago when my clutch started...

Did you know that if you had invested $100 dollars in Bitcoin in 2011, by 2015 you would have made a 137,000% return on your money? I cannot remember exact figures, but I am pretty sure Peter Thiel made something like a 2,000 times return on his initial investment in Facebook. Just about every software platform I...

Social media marketing has been trending as a topic in the online world since, well, forever. After businesses realized that social media can be used for generating leads and getting new clients, the need for successful online presence significantly increased. The effectiveness of social media marketing created a need that can only be fulfilled by...