Are you ever off your business or is the business running you?
Running a business is not always fun, if somebody, I would admit that immediately. When you grow your business, you have issues of employing enough people, issues with cash-flow, issues of spending time with your loved ones.When I started my own business almost five years ago, I could not separate my company time and free…
Read More..Do you know how to partner in your business?
We talk about partnering in business, but do we really know what it means? Do we rely on our partner prospects? Do we give and not expect to get? Are we openly discussing of leads that we can be working on? These are unbelievably difficult question and tasks for most business-owners and entrepreneurs. Also, partnering…
Read More..Focus, focus, focus is the key to success
One of the most difficult tasks that we business-owners have is to pick our battles. We see money everywhere and this leads to unfocused business and we do not get anything done. I have been guilty of this but work hard to remember it when I stretch myself too thin. Ask yourself the question how…
Read More..Recession is a business opportunity for an entrepreneur
Being a business-owner in recession might be scary to many, but I believe it is a tremendous opportunity as well. There will always be products, services that consumers or businesses need. Your job is to find the opportunity and run with it. These opportunities will not come to you automatically, you will have to search…
Read More..Do you know what is said about happiness?
In researching for my upcoming book, I found an interesting book at a local Southlake, Texas Barnes&Noble bookshop. This book explains how research has been able to explain happiness and why for example rich people are not as happy as one would think. I highly recommend this book as introduction to investigating what happiness is…
Read More..Dr. Petri I. Salonen blog is open for business
I have been contemplating on starting a blog that evolves my daily life as business-owner, entrepreneur, father, technologies and vivid believer in social media and what it can bring to our lives. I spend far too much on the road and I have been maintaining a blog for that for quite some time. Another blog…
Read More..My second book project on its way
I am currently in Finland and will be meeting with my publisher to discuss about my upcoming book that will be my second book from the same publisher. I have been thinking/contemplating and pondering about the content and it is pretty much in my head now and I have to get it on paper as…
Read More..Amazon Debuts Bigger Kindle
New larger Kindle to the market soon. I have the first Kindle (1) and Kindle 2 and might be buying this one as well. “Amazon Debuts Bigger Kindle” Amazon unveiled a $489 Kindle electronic-book reader that has a larger screen geared toward textbooks and newspapers.
Read More..The agony of an author and the joy of having a clear picture in one’s head
I am sitting in Helsinki, Finland and writing on my second book (first one was released in December 2007) and I have been contemplating on this book for quite a while and during the long first of May weekend here in Helsinki, everything became so clear to me. I know exactly the why’s, to whom,…
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