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Your Attitude Can Predetermine Your Business Success

Your Attitude Can Predetermine Your Business Success

SUCCESS HAPPENS!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

“You’ll never make it with that attitude!” You’ve heard it in sports. You’ve heard it in school. And you may have heard it from your parents. You attitude is the filter through which all the input you receive passes, is judged, and is acted upon. In business, having a...
Sales Should Be Taught In School

Sales Should Be Taught In School

“I’LL TAKE IT!”

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

In the past few years we’ve spoken at over 40 schools that teach entrepreneurship. Only one of them teaches Sales – not sales forecasting, not sales management, and not sales analysis, but real, “get out of my office,” to “I’ll take two truckloads,” Sales! As a...
Successful Entrepreneurs Must Constantly Sell to Each Business Relationship

Successful Entrepreneurs Must Constantly Sell to Each Business Relationship

Have Their Best Interests at Heart!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Most agree that selling products and services are at the core of any successful business. Without sales there is simply no money to pay the bills and the business fails. But there are other, less obvious types of “sales” that are just as essential to the success of...
3 Essentials of Effective Leadership

3 Essentials of Effective Leadership

DON’T RUN OUT OF GAS!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Running a company, division or a team is a responsibility that goes way beyond being the executive. In many ways you are in a parental role. It’s not enough to lay out the path and make the big decisions. You must also nurture your people if you want them to perform...
Scarier Than Halloween! Creepier than a Crypt! It’s a Ghost! It’s a Goblin! No, It’s Entrepreneurship!

Scarier Than Halloween! Creepier than a Crypt! It’s a Ghost! It’s a Goblin! No, It’s Entrepreneurship!

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

For the past few years now we have been speaking at universities that teach entrepreneurship in one form or another. The reoccurring question regularly asked by millennials aspiring to become entrepreneurs is: How do you prepare for the unknown? This is a great...
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