Struggling Entreprenuer

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This episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur is the audio content from the presentation delivered by Fred Castaneda during a luncheon meeting of the Austin Northwest Chamber of Commerce in Austin, Texas, on 28 February 2008.
The slides are available in the pdf document, below.

Click here for the charts presented .

This presentation consists of 2 topics:
(1) Why Personal Productivity is critical for the Entrepreneur and the Small Business Owner.

- How to avoid becoming overwhelmed;

- Productivity Hint: How to Deal With–and overcome–Procrastination.

(2) Why New Media is important to Small Business and How Podcasting can increase your business.

- eMarketer reports: the growth of Podcasting and New Media;

- How Podcasting can increase your business and become a revenue-generating tool;

- The low-cost entry of Podcasting and some Podcasting resources.

A free whitepaper with a Personal Productivity Hint is included in the discussion of Part One of the presentation. The title of the whitepaper is “A Productivity Hint: How to Deal with–and overcome–Procrastination.”

For access to the whitepaper as an audio mp3 file, click here.

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To access the whitepaper as a pdf document, click here .

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In this episode of The Struggling Entrpreneur podcast, we see the other side of the coin. This is an interview with John Mayo, who holds a day job in the high-tech industry as an IT Database Manager. He is also a podcaster who has a podcast series titled Comic Book Page at http://www.comicbookpage.com. He now has a large and loyal audience and a good set of subscribers for his many episodes, and he also has brought on board a co-host for his shows.

What is interesting is that John has had the opportunity to start his own business and become an entrepreneur to pursue his passion in life — collecting and managing a huge collection of comic books — but he consciously chose not to pursue this.

We explore with John his thought processes, his analyses, his objectives and the reasons for his decisions–both from a financial and personal point of view. We also see the direction of his comic book collection both in the area of podcasting and perhaps a future opportunity to drive it towards a real entrepreneurial venture.

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In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we have the wonderful opportunity to speak with Michael Auzenne, the co-host of the successful Management and Business Podcast of Manager Tools (which is on iTunes).

Starting from a leadership position in the U.S. military as a West Point graduate, Mike has gone on to start several busineses on his own–including experience in the food industry with a successful chain of Restuarants (which still exist today).

Learn how Mike leveraged his leadership skills when he spent nearly 2 decades in Corporate America as a manager and executive in one of the largest multinational firms in the Telecommunications Industry. Then see how he moved into the Business Management consulting industry and used the New Media–especially the Podcast channel–to implement the revenue-generating programs of his successful venture with his co-host, Mark Horstman.

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