Ryan Blair Shares Secrets of Entrepreneurship

By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant

Ryan Blair represents a good example of a life that made a 180-degree turn for the better. After his father had abandoned 13-year-old Blair and his mother, the boy turned to crime and gang life to get by. A special mentor, his stepfather, helped him change his life. Blair wrote of his journey in Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur (www.nothingtolose.com). Home Business Magazine® recently spoke with Blair about entrepreneurship.

Serial Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson Shares Success Secrets
(Photo Courtesy of Cameron Johnson)
By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant

Founding a dozen successful businesses is laudable for any entrepreneur. Doing so by age 15 makes Cameron Johnson remarkable. At age nine, he sold vegetables door to door, hooking him on entrepreneurship. He netted $50,000 the year he turned 12 by selling Beanie Babies™ online. By age 15, Johnson had joined a Tokyo company’s advisory board. In 2010, Johnson was a finalist on Oprah Winfrey’s “The Big Give” program on ABC. He also hosted the fourth season of “Beat the Boss” on the UK’s BBC. Home Business Magazine® recently spoke with him about what it takes to start a successful home business.

Interview with Mark C. Thompson

If you want to succeed in business, look no further than the advice of Mark Thompson (www.markcthompson.com). He’s served at the executive level of Charles Schwab & Co. and collaborated with the likes of Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, and Brian Tracy,. A widely sought speaker and author of many books, including “Success Built to Last,” Thompson often addresses sales and productivity issues. Thompson took a break from attending sessions at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City in September 2010 to speak with Home Business Magazine®.

Interview with Steve Strauss on Why You Should Start a Home Business When a Recession Loom.

Let’s face it, the economy is tough and tight right now. Should one start up and operate a home business during a recessionary time? Home Business® Magazine satdown recently with Steve Strauss, the author of the Small Business Bible and small business columnist for USATODAY.com to get answers to this and other pertinent questions.

Interview with Dave Ramsey
By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant

Dave Ramsey is no stranger to building new business enterprises. With no start-up capital, he grew his net worth to more than $1 million by age 26 but lost it all through poor money management. He went back to his “first love,” real estate, to get out of debt.

Big Sales Equals Big Growth

By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant

Years ago, when Tom Searcy looked at displays of Inuit whale hunters at a museum, a correlation formed in his mind between them and his experience as CEO of four multi-million dollar companies: the need to “get the big one,” whether it’s a sales contract or a whale. Now a nationally-sought speaker, his 2008 book (co-authored with Barbara Weaver Smith), Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Deals and Transform Your Company, encapsulates his philosophy.

By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant

Many consultants marketing to entrepreneurs brand their programs and seminars with words like “golden,” “riches,” or “success.” But Mike Michalowicz’s book, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (HarperCo, 2008) and site of the same name demonstrate the off-beat approach that represents his own entrepreneurial experience, too.

Armando Montelongo — Real Estate Mogul and Host of A&E’s “Flip This House” — Shares Secrets for Turning Over a Quick Profit

By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant
 
Armando Montelongo wasn’t always the brash, wildly successful real estate mogul presented weekly on A&E’s “Flip This House.” Five years ago, his family’s unexpected medical problems left him unemployed, broke, with poor credit, and $50,000 in debt. They borrowed $1,000 to move from his in-law’s garage on a cross country adventure to start over in San Antonio. Within two months, he flipped his first house and hasn’t looked back since. Home Business® Magazine recently spoke with Armando about his secrets for turning over a quick profit.

Author, Entrepreneur and Business Coach Brad Sugars on Home Businesses

By Deborah Jeanne Sergeant

As CEO of ActionCoach and author of Sell to Survive and other business titles, Brad Sugars offers plenty of business advice. But Sugars also practices what he preaches. He built ActionCoach from nothing to a corporation operating more than 1,000 offices in 26 countries.