Struggling Entrepreneur

 

 135- Critical Challenges for the Solo-preneur (a repost) [30:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we deliver a discussion of four key and critical challenges that face the Entrepreneur–especially the ’solo-preneur.’

This is an elaboration of a presentation for a group of aspiring Entrepreneurs in a local region at a co-working environment. However, when asked if they had the plans to address such challenges and keep them from becoming real issues in their businesses, the would-be small business owners admitted that they did not. This caused concern, because usually, these issues can become real problems later on. The result could be that these new small business owners would become the latest statistics and have their businesses fail within the first 6 to 12 months.

This discussion centers around four top challenges:

- Knowing how to manage the finances for a startup;

- Having the Personal Productivity skills (to accomplish more, in less time, with better quality, and with reduced stress);

- Becoming an effective marketer of their business and generating sales effectively;

and

- Planning and developing the right online presence–on the web and in the mobile environment with the right technology.

Each one of these areas is discussed with the questions that each entrepreneur or ’solo-preneur’ needs to answer. Has the entrepreneur considered these areas? Is there a written plan that addresses these? Are the plans integrated into the overall written map or guide called the ‘Business Plan’ (however brief that may be) ? And is there a consistency with this integration of all these four major challenge areas so that the Entrepreneur can increase the chances for success and minimize the risk of negative impact, or even failure?

These four challenges facing the Entrepreneur actually come from an evergreen whitepaper that discusses in details the top ten issues. This whitepaper is free, and it can be consumed either as a pdf document or as audio mp3 podcast episodes.  There is both an executive summary version (4-page pdf-document or 8-minute mp3 audio file), as well as the detailed version (39-page pdf document or 3 separate mp3 audio podcast files of 35-minutes each).

You can get the whitepaper in episode 2 at:

http://www.entrepreneurtoolsonline.com

In an upcoming episode, we will deliver some online resources– both free and fee– for the entrepreneur to address these challenges and improve the chances for success.

Copyright (c) 2010, Matrix Solutions Corporation. All rights reserved.

 

 136- Seminar Presentation - Issues for the Solo-preneur [34:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we deliver to you the actual live presentation at a meeting of small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs at a training seminar at Cospace, a co-working location.

The discussion centered around the top issues facing the Entrepreneur — especially the solo-preneur — and what you can do about them. The presentation was only 30 minutes long, and it is delivered to you as part of the audio podcast episode.

You can get the  slides that accompanied this recording:

Click here to get the slides in a pdf document  .

One key area that was of focus during the presentation was the list of questions that an Entrepreneur needs to ask about the four critical challenges and issues that can actually put the business at risk, if they are not addressed.

This presentation also stressed the importance of networking, good mentors, meetup groups and giving back to the community in the form of free consultation for the entrepreneur’s services.

The free whitepaper to which reference was made that dealt with Addressing the Issues facing the Struggling Entrepreneur can be obtained in episode 2 of the podcast series called

Entrepreneur Tools Online at

http://www.entrepreneurtoolsonline.com.

Copyright (c) 2010, Matrix Solutions Corporation. All rights reserved.