Leadership Inspiration – No Guarantee of Success

“People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” William McFee (1881 – 1966) English-American writer of sea stories

Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 3 of 3

Your ‘Why’ Should Not Be Because You Hate Commuting In his book Start with Why?, Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. While what and how are the yin and yang of everything, why is the driving force. So why didn’t I start the article with the why? Because the hobby-to-business process is agile rather […]

Leadership Inspiration – Success Interrupted

“Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.” Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763 – 1825) German Romantic writer

Sharon Drew Morgen

Decision Makers vs. Influencers

I’ve heard there are 5.7 decision makers for each sale, and ‘unknown’ influencers. Yet there is no difference between ‘decision makers’ and ‘influencers’. If you want to move and your daughter is in her last year of high school and prefers to stay behind to finish the year, is she a decision maker or an […]

Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program

StrategyDriven Releases a Turnkey Business Performance Assessment Program

StrategyDriven’s turnkey Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program provides business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance.   StrategyDriven released its Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program providing business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance. The assessment program contains fully developed process procedures, forms […]

Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 2 of 3

Business Is Both Fun and Dull All The Time Fun is a small word with a huge impact on our lives, so it makes sense that we’d prioritize injecting fun into our business lives whenever possible. And, if you’re thinking about becoming your own boss, the ability to capitalize on fun is definitely one of […]

Leadership Inspiration – Being Unmasked

“Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.” Susan Necker (1739 – 1794) Swiss hostess

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. One of […]

StrategyDriven Alternative Selection Article

How to Assess an Online Money-Making Idea

According to Google, in December of 2012, 1.44 million people searched on some variation of the phrase “make money online.” Maybe you even found this blog post by searching for that phrase yourself. If you’re reading this, you’re at least probably interested in it. I’ve been in the business of internet revenue generation for years. […]

Sharon Drew Morgen

Steps Along the Buying Decision Path

As sellers we are taught to find prospects with a need that matches our solution and then find creative, professional ways to pitch, present, entice, push, market, or somehow introduce our solution to enable them to understand how our solutions will fix their problem. Unfortunately, we fail to close over 90% of the time (from […]