motivation: Remember Don Vito - 02/12/09 12:47 AM
 

The feeling is all too familiar to us entrepreneur types. The debilitating paralysis that grips our business soul and temporarily evaporates every ounce of our self confidence. If you have ever owned a business, there has been a time when you invested all your creative energy on closing that deal or getting that client and failed. You’ve surely had one of those days when you walked into your office with your confident chest out ready to convert all those prospects into loyal clients and got hung up on. Or built a solid pipeline only to watch it turn into … (5 comments)

motivation: Tribute to the bad days - 07/07/07 06:35 PM
Let me start by saying that this is not a normal post. Many of my colleagues on Active Rain, including myself often write about success. An unexpected referral from a post you wrote months ago, higher ratings on Google, greater credibility with clients even feature stories on local newspapers. All of the previous are perfect reasons to write a post any day. I would like to go a different route today. This is a tribute to the bad days. I am referring to those gray days when your professional life seems to unravel before your very eyes. A "pipeline" of deals … (6 comments)