The Freestyle Entrepreneur is pleased to announce the first program in the TFE Business Presentation Series:  How to Beat Burnout!  This program, presented by entrepreneur John Ingrisano, can be tailored for your individual for business, entrepreneur, executive or inventor group.

The premise:  Burnout and boredom are among the top reasons small business owners pack it in and either sell out or shut down.  According to market re­search, these two factors account for 50 percent of all busi­ness sales.  Pretty much every business owner hits the wall, crashes and burns.  The problem is especially rough in today’s shaky economy.  

It makes sense.  Successful men and women tend to be creative problem solvers.  They are also easily bored.  Plus, they don’t just commit them­selves to their companies … they become consumed by the quest.  Many put in long hours.  They neglect their health, families and outside activities.  Some end up physically ill, emotionally depressed, divorced.  Ironically, a major cause of burnout is suc­cess, ach­ieving a single goal long sought.  That’s why many owners get rest­less, discontented, bored.  

The program:  This entertaining and informative 45-minute presentation, with Power Point and handouts, has universal appeal for most business owners.  A lively mixture of statistics and John Ingrisano’s personal experiences (“I know I’m approaching burnout when I begin fantasizing about either Las Vegas and a showgirl or applying for an hourly job behind the counter of my local convenience store.”), you will be amused and unsettled by this humorous approach to a very serious subject.  Most of all, however, you will leave with some practical ideas about how to beat burnout. 

Who should find out more: If you are an administrator for a Chamber of Commerce, SCORE chapter, Economic Development Corporation, or work with any group that brings together self-employeds and SBOs, you owe it to your group to get more information 

 Presentation covers:

• The price of commitment to success and the risk and causes of burnout. 
• The telltale signs of impending burnout.
• Ten practical, hands-on tips to re-ignite that fire in your belly and side-step burnout. 

 What attendees can expect to take away from this presentation: Business owners and executives will obtain tools to help them recognize the telltale signs of burnout and be able to take steps to avoid this destructive malaise that plagues too many men and women in business. 

 For more information, call (920) 559-3722, or email him at john@thefreestyleentrepreneur.com. 

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The Freestyle Entrepreneur — winner of the 2010 Top 35 Entrepreneur Blog awards from OnLine MBA.

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Let John Ingrisano, author of the Back to Basics Book of Selling, give a boost to your bottom line with a get-results workshop, seminar, or motivational presentation.

For details, call 920-559-3722 or email john@thefreestyleentrepreneur.com.

John R. Ingrisano
204 Lakeview Drive
Algoma, WI 54201
john@TheFreestyleEntrepreneur.com

I want to thank all our readers for helping The Freestyle Entrepreneur be included on the list of the 2010 Top 35 Entrepreneur Blog awards from OnLine MBA.   

Want more biz tips and support?  Visit www.TheFreestyleEntrepreneur.com.

For more info, visit www.biztalkwithscore.com or www.scorefoxcities.com.  Also, we’d love to hear from you.  The call-in numbers are 281-1150 in Appleton and 877-887-1150 outside Appleton (Green Bay, Fond Du Lac or Oshkosh).

I have a set of quality products, including workshops, seminars and money management clinics built around my latest two-book set (book and workbook) of The Back to Basics Book of Money!  A Couple’s Guide to Financial Peace. 

Payment will be based on a percentage of net online book sales.  I suggest you order a copy of the book and workbook, review the site and then let me know (john@b2bbookofmoney.com) if you think you can (a) drive business to my site and (b) earn a chunk of money for yourself by helping me make book sales. — JR Ingrisano

Just an announcement that my money management workshop and seminar business is now fully functional.  The Family Finances Conference Center (FFCC) has been built around my latest two-book set, The Back to Basics Book of Money and the accompanying workbook, available on Amazon.  It’s also available as a download onto Kindle readers.  (And you thought I was a techno-dino!)

The Family Finances Conference Center is dedicated to…

1.                  Providing financial wellness programs to businesses that will help their employees enhance their money management skills while taking some of the sting out of upcoming no-raise/lo-raise year-end salary talks as we look to 2010.

2.        Providing a tool for financial services representatives to help their prospects identify available dollars to purchase life insurance, annuities and related products. 

2.                  Helping church members “find” contribution dollars to help their spiritual homes meet budgetary and other financial goals.

3.                  Working with charitable organizations to assist them in maintaining and increasing donations levels during these challenging economic times.

So, when you get the time, please drop by the FFCC website.  Not only would I like your business, but I’d also like your opinion. 

John Ingrisano
Director
Family Finances Conference Center
204 Lakeview Drive
Algoma, WI 54201
(920) 559-3722

A marketing failure? Not even close. The Freestyle Entrepreneur (TFE) has been and continues to be a fantastic learning experiment. It’s also a tremendous avenue to forge new relationships, lend credibility and voice to its owners / authors, and keep on top of the latest online endeavors.

We at TFE feel the leaders of a community or country must do everything they can to help develop and assist those within that community. The future success of the community depends upon it. Sometimes that’s something as valuable as creating a job or building a business. We’re not in a position to do that just yet.

As an alternative, TFE will donate 100% of its ad revenue for 2008 to the V Foundation for cancer research. Folks aren’t able to focus on business-let alone their lives and families-if they’re fighting cancer. This nasty character affects people of all ages, socioeconomic statuses, and geographies. It’s past time we knock cancer down for the count. The V Foundation is a 4-star rated charity on Charity Navigator and uses very little of its funds for administrative costs.

We challenge all the friends of TFE to donate to their charity of choice and we wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

In the 14 months we’ve operated TFE, our technology and marketing prowess have grown considerably–if not our profitability. ;-( We found ourselves outgrowing our previous platform and possessing a desire to “get with the program”. After considerable research, we decided a move to WordPress would afford us certain advantages as well as accommodate new features and needs.

Creative Flexibility

I highly recommend starting out leveraging one of the full-service blog providers: TypePad, Blogger, Live.com, etc. You will encounter no worries about hosting, DNS, domains, redirects, coding, up-time, scalability, SMTP, etc. (if you have no idea what I’m talking about…go full-service). However, a full-service blog provider also must, for this same reason, keep you in a box; their sandbox if you will. You must use the provider tools and while customization is possible, you’re limited to just those tools the provider puts forth. I was tired of living inside that box and, as a full-time developer with web master experience, was ready for a change.

Lower Costs

Blogging is inexpensive. My personal blog Effective Thoughts is hosted for gratis courtesy of Google Blogger. As I wrote earlier, our premium-level TypePad account was only $15/month. This is very, very reasonable given all the service and features they provide. However, remarkably, most everything related to WordPress is free: themes, shared hosting (via WordPress.com), widgets–you name it. Our excellent new theme is courtesy of SoloStream, who, as of last year was yet to charge for this theme (they’ve since begun charging $50…still a bargain).

Our only true cost is hosting (well, and our time…but that’s another post). To post ads (hosting on WordPress.com does not allow advertisements) as well as achieve ultimate flexibility, we choose virtual, shared hosting with BlueHost. They are one of the top WordPress-recommended hosting providers and are also very reasonably priced. Because the WordPress software is also free, our total monthly costs dropped to under $10/month.

Learning Opportunities

One of my personal goals from TFE is learning: both interactive/blog marketing and web content/platform management. With a full-service blogging platform, I learned much about plug-ins and blogging technique in general, but I missed the nitty-gritty. Don’t shield me from the cool stuff! I wanted to experience the SEM, the platform, developing some custom code, understand hosting, etc. I wanted to fulfill my desire to learn and experience new things.

Go Where the Cool Kids Are

Wil Schroter, of Go Big Network, gave a talk about interactive marketing I attended last year. Wil, a serial entrepreneur and an entrepreneurial legend in my town (Columbus, OH, USA), spoke about what he called going where the cool kids are. It was about attracting buzz, attention, being hip: not Long Tail but more Facebook, Google, Apple, in your face, getting it done, everyone wants to be involved kind of energy.

Ok, so WordPress isn’t that cool but it’s definitely where the cool kids are. Of the Technorati Top 100, over 1/3rd are on WordPress. So, as an implementer, that affords me a huge advantage with technology and marketing. If the top bloggers and many of the mainstream bloggers use WordPress, everything related to WordPress will correspondingly increase in quantity and value: writings on techniques, plug-ins, themes, hosting, advancements, etc. There’s a certain (warning: cheesy corporate term) synergy in using the same product lots of other folks do.

Next Steps

From here–the experiment continues. WordPress is certainly the best platform for TFE at this moment. This cannot be true for all blogs (If not, here’s a solid evaluation of free or almost free blogging platforms: “Powerful Software for Better Blogging“). But for now, self-hosted WordPress will provide us with the features and flexibility to meet our goals:

• Provide a forum for delivering great content assisting and guiding the small business owner (SBO), entrepreneur, solopreneur, retirepreneur, etc.
• Form a community
• Learning interactive and social marketing; web technologies
• Provide a platform to host TFE’s entrepreneurial endeavors
• Profitability

Stay tuned and thanks for joining us on this journey!

just have a good time. — The Freestyle Entrepreneur.com

So, at least for today, let me sign off with: Don’t work! Enjoy good company! Have fun! — JRIngrisano