Life 2

Here’s a guest post on making your business last by Joel Fortner. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs be better marketers, and is the author of the blog, Get Serve Keep. You can guest post as well. Read how to here. Oh, and there’s something very special only for Chris LoCurto.com readers at the end of this post!

Once a business is up and running and revenue is steadily coming in, the last thing you want to do is put it on cruise control.

Besides finding ways to optimize and grow it, you need to figure out your plan to make the business last.

This weekend…

When I made the switch to MailChimp, I made some rookie mistakes that had me emailing my subscribers twice each day. (Some three times)

I quickly sprang in to action, because I’m that kind of guy, and called my buddy David Morris at Dillanos and asked if he would be so kind as to help me say I’m sorry.

David was so kind as to offer a 30% discount on all Dillanos coffee for the whole month of March!!!!

All you have to do is…

Customer Service is something you hear me preach about quite a bit here. To me, it’s the lifeblood of your organization. Without at least good customer service, few people care about your product.

Recently I attended a conference in Colorado. (Having been to a ton of events, and perhaps put on one or seven hundred myself, I was pretty excited that we had two great instructors in Pete Richardson and Michael Murphy.)

During one of the sessions, Pete shared about an experience he had with the now defunct CompUSA. Early in his

Tomorrow I’m going into the studio for another Q & A EntreLeadership Podcast to answer YOUR questions. These episodes are always the most downloaded, so please feel free to ask whatever you would like in the comment section, and hopefully your question will make it to air. Except, don’t ask about the time I was

Here is a guest post by Matt McWilliams. Matt is an author, motivator, and thought leader.

He writes daily at MattMcWilliams.com on life, leadership, love, and more. He has learned everything the hard way and sees failure as a catalyst to success. You can follow him on his blog and on Twitter.

Those are famous words from the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr. I was praying this prayer a few days ago and halfway through it hit me that this prayer was made for leaders.

So I rewrote it and out came the “Leader’s Prayer for Serenity.”

As leaders, we often worry about the things we cannot change, like

Ok, so I have to apologize immensely for the one…or maybe three extra emails that you received this week.

And If you are one of the ones who have been with me from the beginning, and you subscribed on Wordpress, then you received six extra emails this week.

At the end of this post is an incredible offer for your trouble!

So, I switched to MailChimp last week and, well, I messed things up. I am still trying to figure it all out. HOPEFULLY, you are only getting one email today.

Unless you’re a Wordpress subscriber, then you are still receiving one from Wordpress with the WP logo, and one from me.

If that’s you, and you received one from me and one with the WP logo:

Motivating team members is a difficult and sometimes daunting task. The need to always be on your game making other people happy and excited can, frankly, wear a person out. Sales team leaders understand this. They know the need to keep the front lines motivated. It’s difficult enough to be on the phone, or in

As I was working last night, I saw that someone followed me on Pinterest. As I clicked on the email that announced the follow, it showed some recent posts that she had made. One of them jumped out at me. The picture above seemed to say, “Chris, there are so many hurting in ways that

Fear is one of those things that has a habit of grabbing ahold of you and never letting go. It’s kind of like cheap cologne. (My first post ever. Go easy on me, it’s pretty bad) Fear is one of those things that will keep you from doing just about anything. If fear can convince you that

In What’s Your Inspiration I asked for the obvious, and it blew up with incredible ideas. Today I am asking you to inspire at least one person. It can be with the amazing thing you shared last week, or something new. Either way, I want you to intentionally inspire someone. Then I would like you to