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Don’t Destroy Your New Business!: 5 Crucial Mistakes Not To Make

July 29, 2014 By Robert Estupinian

Starting a business can hold within it excitement and possibilities. Often when an entrepreneur first formulates a business idea there’s usually a sense of passion and the belief that the business will grow linearly. The truth is that rarely, if ever, does a business look the same way at its start than what it matures […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Management, Motivational, Performance, Small Business Tagged With: business challenges, entrepreneurship, small business, small business challenges, small business success

Attention Entrepreneurs! You are not crazy!

June 10, 2014 By Robert Estupinian

Entrepreneur? Being harangued for being out of sync when it comes to your business and your ideas? Told that you can’t approach your business that way and that such behavior will lead to crashing your business? That your world view makes no sense? It’s a common malady for entrepreneurs. At some point any entrepreneur begins […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Management, Motivational Tagged With: business motivation, business success, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Management, small business success

Bay Area Mastermind’s 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs with Short Attention Spans

October 1, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

In a recent interview with renown  psychiatrist Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, he described how many entrepreneurs have some form of short attention deficits.  At first hearing this comment many people would find this alarming.  However, Dr. Hallowell made it clear that this was not entirely a bad thing as it allowed these creative and innovated […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Performance Tagged With: attention, business success, entrepreneurship, focus, mastermind groups, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success

Bay Area Mastermind mid-year economic review

August 2, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

The View of the US Economy mid year

By Robert Estupinian As we begin the second half of the year we wanted to take a moment and provide our readers with a view of the economy and our forecasts going forward.There is a lot of economic data being spewed out these days in the media. It is not uncommon for the same data […]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Economy, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, small business profitability, small business success

Motivating Thoughts From Bay Area Mastermind

April 23, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

To get this week off to a great start, We wanted  wanted to share with you two videos that help put things in the right perspective.  Sometimes it just helps all of us to be inspired by the courage and strength of others. Being in business for ourselves can be a lonely journey.  It is […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Motivational Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business motivation, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, s, small business

3 Things You Can Do When You Are Mentally Stalled Out

February 10, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

Every business owner has faced the same frustrating situation, feeling stuck. I’m talking about not seeing how to get through a tough business problem. No matter how much you keep working at it the problem will not go away. For some business owners getting stuck is frightening. Let’s take a look at what can be […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Motivational Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, entrepreneurship, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business success

How To Price Your Services and Products in A Weak Economy

January 30, 2012 By Robert Estupinian

By Robert Estupinian Last week J.C. Penny announced it would be changing the way that it will price its merchandise. No longer will the company be offering sale prices. Instead the retailer will be slashing all prices by 40% and keeping them there. Previously, the company would hold hundreds of sales every year, and their […]

Filed Under: Economy, Marketing, Pricing Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, Economy, entrepreneurship, marketing, Pricing, recession, Robert Estupinian

Boomerang for Gmail: The New Email App To Make You More Productive

July 31, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

Boomerang for GMail

By Robert Estupinian One thing that is important for us here at Bay Area Mastermind is giving our members the latest tools and strategies to make them more efficient.  After all owning a business should not be about working harder, it should be about liberating your time. So, today we have a new tool that […]

Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, Business resources, email tools, entrepreneurship, Gmail, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business profitability

Managing Your Business Through a Recession

July 28, 2011 By Robert Estupinian

Meeting with staff

In today’s economy, the small business owner may encounter situations where one or more of the employees’ performances are affected. Because some employees may worry about not having a job a month or two down the road, their focus might not be as clear as compared to someone who had a guaranteed position. And in […]

Filed Under: Economy, Human resources, Management Tagged With: Bay Area Mastermind, business success, Economy, entrepreneurship, Management, recession, Robert Estupinian, small business, small business profitability

This Advertising Stuff Doesn’t Work, What a Waste of Time and Money

August 30, 2010 By Robert Estupinian

Advertising Doesn't Work

Frustration is all around these days as many businesses struggle to get customers in. Advertising can sometimes be black hole that simply sucks the money out of a business with no return.  Therefore, it is not uncommon for business owners to feel that they may be better off not doing any advertising or marketing. Are […]

Filed Under: Advertising, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Tagged With: advertising for small businesses, entrepreneurship, marketing, Robert Estupinian, small business

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