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SMALL BUSINESS START UP QUOTES

Balancing Life & Work

Delegation

Goals & Goal Setting

Guaranteeing Your Small Business Success

Leaving The Corporate World

Money, Riches & Wealth

Starting Up

Time Management

Transitioning

HOW-TO VIDEOS

THE INNER SAMURAI BUSINESS LEADERSHIP VIDEO SERIES

Discovering Your Inner Samurai

The Five Stages of Change for Small Business Owners

How to Become a Written-Word Authority in your Field in Six Months or Less

How to Make Your Business Money this Christmas

How to Set Goals that Stick

How to Use the Law of Attraction for Deliberate Creation

Recession Proof Your Small Business Now and Forever

TURN YOUR BUSINESS DREAM INTO REALITY VIDEO SERIES

Five Characteristics of Great Business Names

Grow Your Business from Solo to Enterprising Entreprenur

How-to Write a Great Mission Statement

How to Write a Great Niche Statement

How to Write a Great Vision Statement

Declaración de Misión

SMALL BUSINESS ARTICLES

BYLINED ARTICLES

3 Questions Every New Business Owner Must Answer

5 Old-school Rules You Can Break When Starting Up

5 Steps To Determine Your Unique Selling Point

5 Tips Today's Entrepreneurs Can Learn from J. K. Rowling

7 Habits That Made Steve Jobs A Success

7 Things Every Greenhorn Needs to Know Before Starting a Business

10 Helpful Inner Practices For The Transitioning Soul

10 Pieces of Advice from Dancing with the Stars for Budding Entrepreneurs

10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Online Business Money

12 Ways to Make Your Business Merry This December

A Simple Way to Manage Your Time

Are Your Emotions Helping Or Hindering You?

Begin Your Economic Recovery. Lower Your Prices Now!

Business Coaches: How to Deal with an Ex Who Refuses to Leave

Cultivating the Millionaire Mindset Using the Law of Attraction

Entrepreneurs to the Rescue

Excelling as a Woman Entrepreneur

Financially Preparing Small Business Owners for 2010

Five Keys to Sales When You Hate to Sell

Freelancer, Consultant, Entrepreneur: Which Are You?

Guilt-free Summer Reading List for Busy Entrepreneurs

How is the Economy Looking for Women Starting Up Businesses?

How Many of You Became Entrepreneurs Accidently?

How to Achieve Your Financial Goals

How to Clear Out the Old to Make Way for the New!

How to Define Your Niche for Your New Business

How to Mindfully Deal with and Extinguish Business Fires

How to Restore Balance in Your Life

How to Utilize the Powerful Law of Attraction to Achieve Balance in Your Life

No Guts, No Glory - Three Hard Things to Do to Succeed in Business

The Olympics for Small Business Owners

One Fun Way to Avoid Becoming a Small Business Startup Fatality

Post-Recession Success: 7 Actions for Small Business Owners to Take Now

Put Your Marketing Real Estate Agent to Work For You

Six Weeks or Less to Double Your Productivity in Tough Economic Times

Small Business in America: 10 Years after 9/11

Stay Within 2 Degrees of Separation When Starting a Business

The Super Bowl for Small Business Owners

Take Control of Your Money: Become a Freelancer

Ten Steps to Successful Online Book Marketing

To Lay Off or Not to Lay Off? That Isn't the Question.

Too Old to Start Up a Business?

Top 10 Resolutions for a More Productive 2009

Top 10 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Boost Productivity

Turning Your Business Dreams Into Reality: Managing The Critic

Your Home Office: 5 Ways to Be Penny-Wise, Not Pound-Foolish

What Women Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Elizabeth Gilbert

Women Business Owners: Start Your Engines!

Why Hire Employees When You Can Build a Team?

Why Positive Affirmations Can Be a Business Liability

ACCIDENTAL ENTREPRENEUR

Accidental Entrepreneurs: Creative Ways to Deal With Indecision

Accidental Entrepreneurs: 3 Stunningly Simple Ways to Stop Shooting Yourself in the Start-Up Foot

Do You Have What It Takes to Become a Preneur?

Embracing Your Multiple Streams of Passion

Freelancer, Consultant, or Entrepreneur: What’s the Difference?

Help! I am Having a Career Transition Crisis!

Is Midlife Entrepreneurship for You?

This Is Not Your Parent’s Workplace: The Case for Becoming a Small Business Owner

Why Age Is an Asset to the Midlife Entrepreneur

COACHES & COACHING

Coaches – Create Your 3-tier Funnel for Active Leveraged Income

Coaches: How to Deal with an Ex Who Refuses to Leave

Coaches - Should You Raise Your Prices in 2009?

Coaching the Coach: Time to Say Goodbye?

The Five Stages of Change for Small Business Owners

From Indecision to Decision in Five Stages

Inner Samurai Business – What a Confused Client Is Telling You

Make Your Coaching Retreat Business Big in 2009

Small Business Coach or Small Business Advisor?

The Three Things Your Coaching School Didn't Tell You about Making a Living as a Coach

GROW YOUR HOME BUSINESS

Before You Expand Your Home Business – Do These Things First

Grow Your Business from Solo to Enterprising Entrepreneur

Grow Your Home Business: Is Virtual Office Space Right for You?

Three Home-Based Business Expansions that Won't Break the Bank

Using the Law of Attraction to Create a Million-Dollar Business

HOT BUSINESS STRATEGIES

Don’t Set any Goals this New Year . . . without Applying the 60-40 Rule

Five Characteristics of Great Business Names and Five Popular Trends to Avoid

Four Creative Money Saving Ideas for Your Home Office

Four No-Brainer Essentials To Make Living and Working Anywhere in the World Easier Than You Thought

Recession-Proof Your Small Business in 2008

Small Business Owners – A Step-by-Step Formula for Raking in Serious Profits

Small Business Owners: Six Surefire weekly Actions to Double Your Productivity in Tough Economic Times

Turning Your Business Dreams Into Reality: Dealing with The Oppressor

HOW TO

How to Be Highly Successful The Steve Jobs Way

How to Be Mindful in The Face of Challenge

How to Be Ridiculously Rich and Spiritual, Too-A Nod to Todays ePreneur

How to Find a Profitable Niche

How to Determine Your Unique Selling Point

How to Get Referrals When Starting up Your Business

How to Move Past the Fears of Starting Up Your Business

How to Set a One Minute Intention

How to Set Financial Goals

How To Set Goals That Stick

How to Simply Manage Your Time

How to Thrive through This Recession, Jack Canfield Style

How to Use the Law of Attraction for Deliberate Creation

How to Write a Great Business Mission Statement

How to Write a Great Business Vision Statement

INNER ENTREPRENEUR

Feeling Overwhelmed: Five Easy Solutions for the Spiritual Entrepreneur

Has Financial Freedom Become Your Holy Grail?

Seven Inner Practices for the Soul in Career Transition Crisis

Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Their Three Most Catastrophic Thoughts and How to Turn Them Around

The Inner Samurai Priority System

The Secret to Building Your Business from the Inside Out

Understanding and Using the Law of Attraction in Business

Using the Law of Attraction to Achieve Balance in Your Life

MARKETING & PROMOTING YOUR BUSINESS

Attention, Ladies - Lower Your Prices!

Inner Samurai Business Sales for the Professional Businesswoman

Niche Marketing for the Online Business Owner - How to Find Your Niche Market

Optimize Your Website...and They Will Come

The 12 Days of Christmas for Smart Small Business Owners

The Power of the Written Word: Top 10 Ways to Become an Authority in Your Field

Using Online PR Distribution Services to Your Advantage

OVERCOMING YOUR FEARS

Are You Sabotaging Your Start-up Success?

Courage: The Anti-Drug for Small Business Start Ups

Five Nagging Start-Up Questions Facing Small Business Owners

Overcoming Negative Habits and Programming-Remember WYTIWYG!

Resistance or Fear: What's the Difference?

Small Business in America: 10 Years after 9/11

Stop, Drop, & Roll, Baby!

What’s Holding You Back from Your Business Success?

SMALL BUSINESS TIPS & IDEAS

Are You a Tortoise or a Hare in Your Business?

Business Secret: Why Saying Positive Affirmations Can be a Business Liability

Dancing with the Stars for Small Business Owners

Five-Step Time Management System

Me & You & a Dog Named Boo

Nine Hot Online Niche Market Research Sites

No You Can't Have it All

Out with the Old. In with the New!

Separating Out the Wheat From the Chaff in Your Life

The Coup de Grâce for Sustainable Long-Term Success

The Importance of Creating the Right Environment for Your Business Success

The Tortoise and the Hare Model for Successful Small Business Start Ups

What Is a Nice Green Business Like You Doing Without a Plan?

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Eat, Pray, Love for Women Entrepreneurs

Emotions - The Key to Business Success for the Woman Entrepreneur

From Woman with a Good Idea to Woman with a Thriving Home-Based Business

Guilt-free Summer Reading List for Busy Entrepreneurial Women

Happy Independence Day for Women Entrepreneurs!

How Women Entrepreneurs Will Save Our Economy

Ladies . . . Start Your Engines!

No Agony of Defeat for Hillary Clinton

Mom Entrepreneurs – Easy Solutions to 3 of the Most Common Problems of Running a Business from Home

Now Is a Great Time to Be a Woman Small Business Owner

Small Business Grants for Women in America

The Three Ps of Lasting Business Success for Women:

Top Five Tips Small Business Owners Can Learn From J.K.Rowling

U.S. Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs Around the World

Want to Excel as a Woman Entrepreneur?

What Olympic Moms are Teaching Mom Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurs: Position Yourself for Post-Recession Success

Why Aren’t Women Making The Big Bucks?

EBOOKS

Are You Ready to Jump the Corporate Ship? Here's How to Know!
This e-book is written for anyone working in the corporate world, who is considering jumping off the corporate ship and becoming a successful small business owner. It will also help you make up your mind if you are ready to jump the corporate ship, and if not, give you insights as why not.

START-UP COACHING SERVICES

New Business Start Up
This is the perfect package for those just starting up their business.

Niche Clarity Program
Identifying a viable, clearly defined, profitable niche is something every business owner needs to do as early in their business as possible. The Niche Clarity Program will help you do just that in four, short weeks!

Niche Clarity Workshop
Our goal in this workshop is to identify your sweet spot so that you can build a business that taps your passions AND supports clients who are willing and able to pay for your services.

One Page Business Plan
Turn your business ideas into a solid plan for financing and long-term success.

Law of Attraction Marketing
This is the perfect package for those wanting to uncover their specialty niche market, develop a Law of Attraction-based marketing plan, and create products and services especially suited to their niche.

Grow Your Home Business
Are you ready to grow your home-based business? Ready for more? If so, this is the perfect package for you!

Increase Your Prosperity
Abundance and Prosperity coaching is perfect for the person who wants to raise their set-point around money, increase their happiness, and free themselves from outmoded belief systems.

BOOKS

Discovering Your Inner Samurai
"Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Journey to Business Success" is the secret behind “The Secret” for business success. More than just an inspirational book, Discovering Your Inner Samurai actually gives people the tools they need to create a business from the inside out. There’s no holding back in this book. The book will tell you what works and what doesn’t. It just doesn’t talk about success; it shows you how to create success!

CALENDAR

2011 Inner Samurai Poster Calendar
Perfect for your desk or wall, this 12”x17” poster calendar is made of premium, 80 lb. cardstock with a glossy finish.

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