This week marks the launch of my latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. Each day this week, I’ll be sharing an excerpt from the book. Please enjoy this selection from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, along with my commentary relating it back to entrepreneurship, plus a challenge question for you to ponder. JJRead More

When was the last time you made a purchase without reading multiple reviews, asking your friends for recommendations or relying on an endorsement from someone that you know and trust? The likely response is: “I can’t even remember that far back.” While trusting the insights of others to inform ourRead More

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for theRead More

Research, regulations and consumer sentiments move more quickly today than they did in the 1930s. But cannabis entrepreneurs can learn a lot from their predecessors. October 18, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As the United States crawls slowly toward the end of theRead More

You may not be able to control what your customers say about you, but you can certainly influence it. October 18, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every time someone from your company speaks with a customer, that customer receives an experience that fallsRead More

On Thursday morning at MarketingProfs B2B Forum, TopRank Marketing CEO Lee Odden asked a room full of marketers, “Who here has tried starting a diet or exercise program before?” Pretty much every hand in the room shot up. The percentage of those individuals who would rate their efforts as aRead More

Social media ad spend to surpass print for first timeAd spending in 2019 will for the first time see social media topping print, with global spending growth up 20 percent increasing to $84 billion, according to recently-released forecast data from Zenith. Marketing Land LinkedIn Launches Events to Facilitate Professional Meet-UpsLinkedInRead More

Lines are blurring. The B2B funnel is no longer tidily divided between marketing (top) and sales (bottom) because the buying process has grown more complex and less linear.  Account-based marketing and social selling are both practices built for the new era of convergence, encouraging marketers to think more like sellersRead More

Even in the digital age, person-to-person outreach remains essential. October 17, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Lots of companies, large and small, are now using marketing-automation tools to keep track of their client relationships and nurture their leads through the sales process. ThatRead More

The changing landscape of marketing calls for even more education on the latest trends, and Eric Siu is here to help. October 17, 2019 2 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Eric Siu discusses digital marketing in the future andRead More