The One Thing Successful People Never Do. Is Entrepreneurship Good For Your Health? By: Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor Published: 05/31/2013 06:54 AM EDT on BusinessNewsDaily Owning a business does a body good, new research shows.
A study by Bank of America found that more than half of small business owners report their personal health has improved as a result of running a business. This is especially true of younger entrepreneurs, with 72 percent of millennials (those born in the 1980s or 1990s) who own a business saying their personal health is better since starting their company. Small business owners cite a number of factors leading to their improved health: 35 percent are exercising more frequently, while 29 percent are eating healthier. In addition, roughly half of those surveyed are getting between seven and eight hours of sleep each night. [The Best iPhone Health Apps] The research shows many small business owners are trying to impart their healthier ways to their employees as well. European business exchange programme - Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. CrowdFunding/CrowdSourcing. Entrepreneur Tips & Tricks from Virgin.com. Your Ultimate Resource. Mentees, Make Listening Your First Priority - Management Tip of the Day - April 03, 2012.
7 Things Highly Productive People Do. How to Redefine Your Business in a New Market. What happens if you get your market research wrong and sales don't take off? You don't have to call it quits, but it's clearly time to consider a new customer focus--and fast. "You can't just say, 'If we build it, they will come,'" says Kevin Daum, author of Roar! Get Heard in The Sales and Marketing Jungle (Wiley, 2010). "You've got to go where the business is. " Here are three ways entrepreneurs have refocused their companies to jumpstart their businesses -- and you can, too.
Ticket Kick Founder Greg Meunder Photo courtesy of the Company No. 1 -- Change the focus of your service. But about a year after starting TicketKick, Muender got a call from a driver who had received a ticket in the mail showing that a camera had caught him running a red light. "So many … people are online researching a red light camera ticket," Muender says. With TicketKick's new focus, revenue more than doubled to $815,000 last year.
Related: Inside the Mind of Your Buyers No. 2 -- Shift your geographic target. Screw Business As Usual - Richard's Books - Richard Branson. “Over the last few decades as I’ve started up one exciting business after another, I thought that life and work could not get any better.
In writing this book, I’ve realised that we’ve really been on a practise run, getting ready for the greatest challenge and opportunity of our lifetime. We’ve got a shot at really pulling together to turn upside down the way we approach the challenges we are facing in the world and look at them in a brand new entrepreneurial way. Never has there been a more exciting time for all of us to explore this great next frontier where the boundaries between work and purpose are merging into one, where doing good, really is good for business.”
Richard Branson In Screw Business as Usual, Richard reveals his exciting new vision for the future.