Here are some fun but informative videos from my father, Barry Dunlop and his pals - made as they sailed around the Greek Islands recently.

They call themselves Entrepreneurs At Large and in between the fun they had sailing and adventuring around the Greek Islands they recorded some tips for us young entrepreneurs plus a 3rd video below, which I highly recommend called: When is enough, ENOUGH?

By the way, the second video features a very old Dunlop family friend, Martyn Mann and yes, I am the Young Entrepreneur he is having a poke at in the 2nd video

But hey, I am a sport and frankly it is good to be able to laugh at yourself!!

By the way, none of these entrepreneurs are that famous but all of them are multi-millionaires and one in particular is worth a really serious amount of money, so for sure, their advise is spot on!!

Entrepreneurs At Large - Advice For Young Entrepreneurs Pt 1

Entrepreneurs At Large - Advice For Young Entrepreneurs Pt 2

Entrepreneurs At Large - When is enough, ENOUGH?

The Entrepreneurs At Large discuss something that all entrepreneurs hope to get to discuss one day - namely, when is enough, ENOUGH? You have built businesses, you have sold businesses, and you can do more or less anything you wish to, so why would you want to continue to work, especially if you have just been made another generous offer for one of your businesses?

NB: Barry Dunlop wants it to be known, he loves Canada and Canadians!

Entrepreneurs At Large - Having Fun and Giving Back

If you are creating a blog with the expectations of generating traffic then there are few means and tools to achieve it.

Though being a king in the contents’ quality is a default condition, it is not the only factor which will be essential to be successful.

Managing the contents and knowing those methodologies to attract/generate traffic will give you the kingdom where you can prove your supremacy.

Twitter is nothing but micro-blogging platform which along with the powerful tools, support applications, and plug-ins will be capable to create the much needed popularity for developing your blogs.

The possible ways in which Twitter can help you save and make money as an entrepreneur are that they can be fun filled and interesting, thus will attract more traffic and it goes without saying that with improved traffic your business will grow tremendously.

You are not required to make big investments with Twitter or spend extensively on other expensive marketing strategies, thus you can save money too. Online business with Twitter could have not got better than this.

Advantages of Twitter for Entrepreneurs

Twitters, in short, is very popular in social networking which enables the users to update their status which consists of almost 140 characters.

You can make the best use of this by using the updates to post interesting information about you or your business along with the URL of you blog/website. It is possible that the onlookers can get mildly interested in what you have got to say with your updates via Twitter and can eventually end up visiting your website.

Remember that Twitter is just the tool which will initiate the potential traffic to your blogs; it is to be understood that you should have good quality contents, attractive profile, browser-friendly options, and more importantly, stay true to your promises if you have to sustain the potential traffic generated by Twitter.

It is indeed an art to survive and succeed in this internet world where thousands of new blogs and websites are cropping up each day.

• Twitters are indispensible in bringing home long lists of prospective customers in a really quicker period. At times, it is arguably even better than the ezines or other similar websites as the visibility while participating in Twitter is quite noteworthy.
• The best part is that you can continue to stay connected even if you are not around in your office as some of the latest Twitter can be used even from the cell phones. There are innumerable features in Twitter for you to ease your work, for instance, the services which the options for you to set up the daily “tweets” while you can arrange for automatically sending them out too.
• Twitter plays an important role in informing your followers the details about you and helps you to have an identity for yourself. Though this is much possible with webinars, seminars, blog updates, or with the articles written by you, Twitter is more efficient and friendly.

As an entrepreneur, to ensure the maximum success with Twitter, you can resolve to tweet regularly and make attempts to go beyond just selling.

Few mistakes which are common while using Twitter are being too sales based, not updating your blogs/source as much you update your Twitter, and lastly, becoming a twit-addict.

Some of the popular Twitter shortcut tools which will save your time are Tweetdeck, Twellow, Tweetie/Twitterberry, Grouptweet, Monitter, Twitterfox, Twitthis, Hashtags.org, WhoShouldIFollow, TweetBeep, Twitterfeed, and so on.

Remember that time is also money and you can still make the best use of Twitter without having to spend much of your precious time.

I was fortunate to met up with Mark Victor Hansen at Ryan Lee’s recent Continuity Summit. Mark is one of the most inspiring people I have ever met and when I told him about the Young Entrepreneur community at Retireat21 he was blown away! Mark and I had quite a number of discussions and the more we discussed, the more we realised we had a lot in common - in particular our passion to help young entrepreneurs.

Mark Victor Hansen makes the case in “The Richest Kids in America” that America’s hope for getting out of the current recession, may be down to successful young entrepreneurs such as those featured in this book. In the book he interviews 20 successful kid entrepreneurs and shows how they made their first millions — naturally, I recommend it very highly.

Mark Victor Hansen Interview

Buy “The Richest Kids In America: How They Earn It, How They Spend It, How You Can Too” at Amazon.com

Get ready to meet some amazing entrepreneurial superstars who are living their dreams and making a big difference doing it. They’ve shared their stories to inspire you, teach you, and show you that your own opportunities are endless. How did they discover their passion? What were their first steps to building their business? Who supported them along the way? Why do they all choose to give back to their community? In this book you’ll learn the key principles that catapulted each of these incredible young entrepreneurs to success and how these same principles will lead you to a life of ultimate fulfillment.

Check out Mark’s website at:
http://www.markvictorhansen.com

To our success,

Michael Dunlop

Without adequate initial curb appeals, your web site does not have a chance to strongly establish itself in visitor’s thoughts. Without strong content, visitors do not have a better reason to stay on your web site long enough to determine what you have to offer.

With the lack of reasons to return, visitors might never build enough interest to visit your site regularly.

Catching the Viewer’s Attention

There are only five seconds - that is right - five seconds to make a lasting first impression. That is not enough time for a web site visitor to read your content and understand your idea.

It is only enough for their emotion-based brains and perceptions to react to layout, design, color, navigation (perhaps), and maybe a headline. If you have not caught people attention by then, they are gone quickly, probably never to return again.

Smart web design may try to catch visitor’s attention with rotating images and catchy slogans.

Fonts, activities, images, everything on the web site must appeal to the target visitor you are trying to reach out. You should not put pastels on a site targeted for teenagers or vivid colors on a web site selling pet ashes urns.

A high-tech web site in black and silver has a very different feel and look than one selling country interior decoration with duckies and gingham. A site selling high-priced products needs lots of empty (white) space to look spacious and rich; a discount web site does well with crowded pictures.

That is why I advise finding a web designer who understands about marketing communications.

Understanding Stickiness

Stickiness is a technical jargon for keeping visitors on a Website. If the average viewers go to fewer than a couple of pages of your web site or stay no more than thirty seconds, most of them read only your home page and flee!

Generally, you want the average site visitor to stay with the site for at least three pages and a minimum of a few minutes. Otherwise these visitors have not spent enough time to find out what you have to offer.

You need to lay down a sticky trail with an impressive content, calls to action, interactions with site elements, things to do and media to download. Every click they make, every action visitors take, binds them kinesthetically to a web site.

Bringing Visitors Back for More

Studies reveal that many people do not buy on the early visits to a web site. Some use the Web only for research before deciding on a purchase in a real life store. Others research many sites for comparison shopping and return only if they decide to buy. You can offer visitors many reasons to return, from great articles, great prices to attractive contest.

All in all, the rule remains the same - you’ve only got five seconds to make a lasting first impression.

Mr Overcome Everything, Tellman Knudson of OvercomeEverything.com and mega successful multi-millionaire Internet Entrepreneur shares some of his tips for success in business.

Tellman and my father, Barry Dunlop recently got to spend 6 days on Necker Island with a small group of amazing entrepreneurs and Sir Richard Branson the Billionaire Founder of the Virgin Group.

Both Tellman and Barry are passionate about helping young entrepreneurs get started and succeeding in business and during a brief rest from all the kite boarding, sailing, cliff jumping and partying etc they managed to record this video along with a transcription.

Enjoy and please comment.

Michael

Transcription:

Tellman Knudson: This is Tellman Knudson with Overcome Everything, Inc.

Hey Michael, how’s it going man? So I’m 32 years old. I have a multi-million dollar Internet-based company called Overcome Everything, and it was my eighth business. I started my first business when I was 19 years old out of the dorm room at my college. It was a salsa company and I basically ran that into the ground.

I started with no money and slowly and slowly built it up, but I really wasn’t interested in studying business or marketing. The primary reason for that… Sorry about the “get your booty on the floor” song, somebody left the door open out there, we’re going to have to just rock out to it, I guess. A little retro-techno.

Barry Dunlop: [laughs] It’s a young audience, they’ll be fine.

Tellman: They’ve probably never even heard this song. So anyway, here’s the point: I avidly didn’t want to learn or study business or marketing when I was 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. At 27, things kind of flipped in my brain and I started getting a little smarter. I’m hoping you’re going to get smarter faster than I did.

I personally had to start all of my businesses on my own funds. I had terrible credit. I was putting myself through college. By the time I finally started my Internet company, which I started on 50 bucks, I was over $200,000 in debt and just barely able to pay my rent. I had to start studying marketing or I was not going to make it.

I really didn’t like working for other people even though I could keep a job and wasn’t fired, I was frequently bored and I went from job to job because I would quit them right before I was going to get fired because I could feel it coming on when I’d start showing up late and that kind of stuff. So I’m the kind of guy that really isn’t very employable because I have my own ideas about stuff and I tend to be fairly erratic in my thinking, actions, and everything else.

So, my biggest advice to you is not study business and marketing, I would advise against that. I would also advise against studying business and marketing in college, personally. Sorry I don’t know if that’s what you are studying or not, I don’t know if you’re in college or not. But most of the people I know that studied business and marketing in college didn’t really learn squat from it, whereas people that studied something they really, truly loved in college got something substantial out of it.

That’s the first piece, if you’re in school whether it’ high school or whether it’s college, if you’re a young entrepreneur study something you love. That will give you a much deeper connection with what you’re working on in your life because that’s really what business is all about is doing what you love and finding a way to make money doing it versus studying lame business tactics just to make money which usually results in some money and a lot of unhappiness.

The second piece is if you’re going to study marketing, study direct response marketing. Most entrepreneurs, especially in the young crowd, either have Attention Deficit Disorder, have a bunch of symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder or think they have Attention Deficit Disorder. They’re very, very, very much quick start people for the most part.

If you’re looking at things online that are only accentuated, accelerated, you’ll find more and more of that. So my recommendation to you is study online direct response marketing because it will give you an immediate response. It’s virtually free to do and you can scale it starting from 50 bucks up into a multi-million dollar company if you’ve got some coffee and you’re willing to put some elbow grease into it.

That’s my best advice for young entrepreneurs is study direct response marketing early. You can use ugly, simple web pages with absolutely no graphic design experience in order to make amazing, amazing things happen. You can do it from something like a dorm room with a crazy idea doing something that you love.

Hopefully, that’s helpful for everybody and young entrepreneurs go ahead and kick some ass. I think you guys are ready to rock and if there’s anything that I can do to help let me know.

Barry: That’s fantastic, Tellman. Do you want to quote anybody in particular from direct response who’d maybe be a good person to study or look at?

Tellman: Well I would selfishly say myself.

Barry: That’s a good place to start because we know, Tellman, you’re on top of the game.

Tellman: If you haven’t checked out any of this stuff, just check out listbuildingclub.com. That’s great and it’s a great beginners program to start learning the basics of all this stuff and start ramping it up and making it work.

Barry: Thank you very much, Tellman, I really appreciate that.

Tellman: Thank you for the opportunity.

Find out more about Tellman at OvercomeEverything.com

PS: Check Out:
http://runtellmanrun.com — Coast to coast Run — barefoot for charity!

http://www.virginunite.com

31-year-old Entrepreneur Tellman Knudson will run 3,000 miles coast to coast across America to raise one hundred million dollars to help homeless kids find home, health and happiness again as they rebuild their lives with the help of Virgin Unite and The RE*Generation USA network of shelters and volunteers.

If you would like to support Tellman — please visit the above site — and please pass the word along…

Get Off your “BUT”

I do not normally do blog posts at the weekend, but I did just want to share this quick video with you - it features Sean Stephenson, a remarkable gentleman that my father, Barry Dunlop met in Necker Island along with Sir Richard Branson.

Sean has written Get Of Your But a book which I have just completed reading this week.

Sean Stephenson is a psychotherapist and a professional speaker with a mission to banish self-doubt and insecurity in a world where they may seem omnipresent. Beginning with the source of his own struggle, a rare and painful disease that causes his bones to weaken and break under minimal pressure, (Only 3 ft tall and confined to a wheel chair) Sean offers a structured and practical approach to Ending Self Sabotage and Standing Up For Yourself.

I really cannot recommend this book highly enough - the most inspiring and practical Personal Development book I have ever read.

Sean has also very kindly agreed to do a Podcast for me which will follow shortly at IncomeDiary.com

This video is just a brief introduction to this remarkable man - I believe he is someone we will be hearing a lot more of.

Enjoy and be Inspired!

Transcription:

Hi, I’m Sean Stephenson.

I’m from Chicago, Illinois. I just recently published a book called, “Get Off Your ‘But,’” so if you say things like, “But, I would do this, but I can’t.” OR “I would be happy and successful, but I’m too young.” OR “But, I don’t have the right parents.” OR “But, I’m not tall enough.” OR “But I’m not pretty enough.” then this book is for you.

Everybody has got a “but”. It’s that self-sabotaging experience, right?

So, my advice to a young adult on this planet is catch yourself whenever you’re sitting back on your “but.” When you’re telling yourself that you’re not good enough, you’re not powerful enough, you’re not attractive enough. Stop that in its tracks. Get up off of that “but” and Take a stand, because you need to be playing much larger with your life. Not so that you can have more fun. That will be a by-product.

Do it so that you can nudge humanity one more inch closer to what it needs to be. I don’t care how old you are. You should not be looking at what you can’t do. You need to be looking at what you can do.

I don’t care how old you are. In fact, I got started young. I wrote my first book before the age of 21. And I’ve done a lot of things that I’m proud of. But, the greatest is, I’ve never let the external conditions define who I am; and you shouldn’t either.

So, make sure that you get up off your “but,” you find what you’re really supposed to be doing on this planet, and you might change your mind a million times. That’s OK, as long as you’re heading forward in your life. If you can do that, you’re doing it perfectly.

I’m Sean Stephenson in Necker Island, in the middle of paradise. Good night.

Buy Get Of Your But at Amazon

“Sean is an amazing person with an important message.”

—President Bill Clinton

“Sean Stephenson is the Yoda of personal development, with less pointy ears.”

—Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live

“As we struggle with inertia to become the best that we can be, Sean Stephenson’s book informs and inspires us to stand up and keep moving forward. Thank you, Sean, for your life, your work, and your abundant sharing.”

—Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager

“Sean Stephenson is a hero to me. When you read his book, he will be a hero to you as well. His moving stories about himself and others who have found the gifts in their pain will teach you so much about courage and, just as important, you will learn how to build your own sense of confidence when it comes to health, career, relationships, and more. Do yourself a favor read this book! “

—Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Embracing Uncertainty

Get Of Your But is a must buy book for anyone serious about living a happier, more productive, more satisfying life

—Michael Dunlop ~ Founder RetireAt21.com and IncomeDiary.com

Perhaps you had luck, but perhaps you didn’t hit the point.

If you are not totally out of hope, you should give BlogProfitz a try.

It is extremely easy to set up, it won’t take more than 5 minutes and it can be a highly effective, easiest way to monetize any blog for both seasoned bloggers or even the greenest of the newbies.

But, what is BlogProfitz all about?

BlogProfitz is a combination of blogging with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is almost as old as the Internet, or even more, if you consider the earlier versions of it.

Blogging is not that old, but anyway, it is a huge success. Combining both, BlogProfitz aims to take advantages of both ways to drive traffic.

The most important point for a webmaster is not only that visitors come to their site, but that they also keep coming, again and again. BlogProfitz does just that.

It provides an incentive to keep coming to a site (yours possibly). It combines online video platforms like YouTube, with RSS feeds and over 15,000 online articles to a well-rounded online experience.

This strategy makes your website bigger, more informative and much more powerful.

BlogProfitz is easy to set-up and easy to maintain. Most webmasters are wary about new services, since many of them are quite troublesome to manage.

But this is not the case of BlogProfitz.

“I’ve never seen a service that does so much, so simply. There’s no reason anyone with a blog shouldn’t use BlogProfitz to present their affiliate products.” - Alan A. (Beta Tester)

How Blog Profitz Works

You might be asking yourself, but how does it really works? Getting more traffic is nice, but does it deliver what it promises?

Not surprisingly, you need to have a WordPress blog. Yes, it has to be WordPress. At the moment, BlogProfitz won’t accept any other type of blog platforms.

BlogProfitz accepts applications of any WordPress blog. New or old. With high traffic or low traffic. Everyone is welcome.

BlogProfitz will then insert as many affiliate products in your blog as you wish or could take. The descriptions of affiliate products are complete with images, links and everything. Everything matches the topic of your blog for a higher user interaction.

After that, you start the engine of BlogProfitz, and your reader gain instant access to thousands of affiliate products. They get what they read. And they read what they need.

As you can see, the system of BlogProfitz will provide you with massive amounts of content. And as you know or already should know, content is king on the Internet.

BlogProfitz is perhaps the easiest way of monetizing a blog. They provide you more than 24,000,000 (yes, 24 million) products at a mouse click.

Have you ever wondered how much time you would have to invest to insert this amount of affiliate links manually?

Affiliate Marketing Made Easy

“It was a super fast setup, I think from the time I started watching the tutorial videos to the time I had my first blog completely set up, it took me 20 minutes. That includes learning how to use the whole system. The next blog I set up took all of 4 minutes.” - Richard Parker (Beta Tester)

And the best bit of it is that you don’t have even to install any software. Whether in your local machine nor in your blog. It’s easy as pie and monetizes within minutes.

It is specially recommended for those webmasters who don’t know very well how to use automatic SEO for driving traffic. The system of BlogProfitz will add new pages, links and a immense amount of keywords, specially selected to drive traffic.

BlogProfitz updates regularly and automatically. No need to press a button or confirm an email. Just set up and let go.

You won’t even notice that it’s there and I suppose after you start using it, you’ll create as few or as many blogs as possible.

BlogProfitz does all of these things for you and more.

You choose the schedule on which your blogs will be updated with which affiliate products of your choice - all on auto-pilot.

Moreover, BlogProfitz is integrated with the best renowned affiliate companies in the business - Comission Junction, Click Bank, Patdotcom, eBay, HotelClub, Overstock.com, Click2sell, amazon.com, Affiliate Bot, YouTube, PostRSSFees, The Content Club and many more. The list is increasing constantly, so you’ll not be short of affiliate opportunities to boost your income.

Anyway don’t take my words for it. Go take a test drive today but be aware that membership is capped at 1000 only.

Adam Schran of FinallyFast.com lets us have some of his top tips for success in business — listen up — this guy is good!

Adam and my father, Barry Dunlop recently got to spend 6 days on Necker Island with a small group of amazing entrepreneurs and Sir Richard Branson the Billionaire Founder of the Virgin Group.

Once again I am fortunate that they did not forget us young entrepreneurs and took some time to record this video (along with a transcription)

I really like this quote in particular from Adam:

“Entrepreneurs get paid, in my opinion, to bust through and do the things that cause you discomfort. Everyone can do ten out of fifteen things that is easy and is in their comfort zone, but to do the difficult stuff, it’s annoying and it’s tough. Your brain will try to talk you out it and trick you out of it, but that’s what you get paid to do”

Enjoy and please comment.

Transcription:

Barry Dunlop: Adam, a question that everybody, whether they’re old or young and they’re going into business for the first time, whether it’s offline or online is, what’s the ’secret sauce’, what’s the special ingredient that we need in order to be a successful entrepreneur? Because I’m an entrepreneur I know there’s many answers, but can you pick out one or two things that you think that makes a real difference?

Adam Schran: Sure, well having a successful venture is sort of like flying an airplane. There’s a lot of different levels to it. When you’re flying an airplane you have to fly it, you’ve got to navigate. You’ve got to get on the radio. You have to manage the engine and be an aero-mechanic. It’s similar to that with a company. You have to be good at hiring and finding people, launching a product, helping people solve a problem in their lives or with their business. Managing the numbers and being creative and organize all at the same time.

When you get something going and launching an online business, or even if it’s offline, there will be things that you’re comfortable with and there will be things that cause you some anxiety and that you avoid.

Entrepreneurs get paid, in my opinion, to bust through and do the things that cause you discomfort. Everyone can do ten out of fifteen things that is easy and is in their comfort zone, but to do the difficult stuff, it’s annoying and it’s tough. Your brain will try to talk you out it and trick you out of it, but that’s what you get paid to do.

My advice to every one is to bulldog through it. Understand that every entrepreneur, with very few exceptions, gets hung up at certain steps along the way and you just have to push through as best you can.

Barry: Adam that’s an awesome answer. I really appreciate it. I’ve got to ask you one more question. You actually are now, your quite modest about it, but you’re a pretty successful young man. What’s a couple little rewards you’ve had for your own success? How do you enjoy yourself?

Adam: It’s important to spoil yourself along the way. You can get caught in the rat race and torture yourself when you’re working long hours to make a business succeed. You’ve got to stop and take care of yourself along the way. Spoil your friends too. But never be afraid of peoples’ envy. Because as your business gets started people may try to talk you out of it especially in certain areas where they don’t appreciate the entrepreneurial thing as much. Treat yourself to trips to Necker Island or a local spa or massage, whatever is fun.

My father, Barry Dunlop recently got to spend 6 days on Necker Island with a small group of amazing entrepreneurs and Sir Richard Branson the Billionaire Founder of the Virgin Group.

One of the entrepreneurs that Barry got to hang out with was Matt Mullenweg the founding developer of WordPress and below is a short video and transcription from one of their discussions.

We have done an Interview With Matthew Mullenweg in the past. As previously what impresses me most about Matt is his ability to convey a message clearly, quickly and concisely.

In this video Matt makes several very important points — so Listen Up!

Enjoy and please comment.

Michael

Transcription:

Barry Dunlop: I’m here today with Matt Mullenweg from “WordPress” and numerous other organizations as you might well find out. Matt has agreed just to answer some questions especially for people who are young on the entrepreneurial trail.

I wanted to ask Matt what would be the single top tip if you like he would give to young people who are getting into business for themselves or going on their entrepreneurial path themselves in 2009?

So over to you Matt.

Matt Mullenweg: That’s a good question. I think one of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur is just keeping going, because it’s actually really, really hard and there’s lots of times when you want to stop or you just feel like nothings going right, or you can’t get funding.

And certainly with myself there’s just been honestly some days where you just want to quit. But when you work through those things; it’s not necessarily that the idea you started with is going to work, but that if you just keep working on it new doors open up and you are able to find whatever it is that ultimately is sort of the big idea that drives you, that’s successful, that allows you to do more things.

But just keeping going is actually really hard… sometimes.

Barry: OK, that’s really good actually. So, effectively what you’re saying is that your idea will evolve?

Matt: Oh definitely, its relativity rare to end up doing what you started out with.

Barry: Right, I think actually that’s an awesome tip for people because sometime people feel they’re a failure if their idea didn’t work out quite as they expected it to.

Matt: And people’s biggest mistake I’ve seen in young entrepreneurs is getting really attached to that idea.

Barry: Right.

Matt: Not wanting to tell people about it, feeling like it’s proprietary, and honestly the idea is probably the least valuable thing you’ll have. It’s really all about your work ethic, how you’re able to inspire people and bring people around you. Not only bring good people around you but empower them, delegate, things like that. That’s what’s going to make you succeed or not in almost any space.

It is a sure bet, however, that all young entrepreneurs have a big dream that pushes them along toward a solid, single goal.

Certainly, you need more than just a dream to become a successful young entrepreneur. If your dream is the cornerstone of your entrepreneurial effort, you still require plenty of thoughts and tools to make the cornerstone into something usable and solid.

First, what exactly is an entrepreneur? A quick check on dictionary tells you that an entrepreneur is defined an individual who directs and organizes a business undertaking, risking time, money and effort for the sake of profit.

Although this definition is true, it is not complete. There is more to being a young entrepreneur than directing, organizing, and assuming risk.

What Does It Take to Be A Young Entrepreneur?

1. You will need knowledge and information, you will need money, and you will need boundless energy.
2. You will need to be willing to dedicate inordinate amounts of time and effort, while putting aside and sacrifice a big part of your leisure activities.
3. Not only that, you will need effective communications skills, a moderate amount of ego, and a solid reputation.
4. You will have to work with diverse kinds of individuals and have the power to convince others about your dream.
5. You will need enough self-confidence to ask people you hardly know, or complete strangers in helping to fund your dream.
6. You will need even more self-confidence to stand behind and defend your dream when distrustful people question it.
7. And you will need huge quantities of perseverance and persistence to keep on moving in face of seemingly insurmountable crisis.

Without a big dream, though, all those other resources and talents will not help you be a successful young entrepreneur. A dream is the spark needed to ignite your effort to be a young entrepreneur. Without it, your fiery determination won’t burn.

Anyone Can Be A Young Entrepreneur

People have a lot of different impressions on what it means to be a successful entrepreneur. Some people relate entrepreneurs with big conglomerates, and think of them as organizers and managers of gigantic business establishments.

Most people fail to understand that the young guy who owns a tiny hotdog stall is also an entrepreneur. The high school teenager who establishes her own babysitting service is also an entrepreneur, as is Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, the leading social networking site.

There are absolutely no restrictions on who are allowed to join the young entrepreneur’s club, as long as an applicant is willing to devote time and effort to give the very best shot.

And with a big dream, BIG possibilities await you.

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