Where Does Happiness Actually Come From?
Where does happiness actually come from? I have found it can be like a maze where you sometimes think you found the path but it’s just a trick. That short-lived burst of joy that dies quickly. After 40 years of life, I have personally found that we all are easily led further away from real […]
Infusionsoft vs ActiveCampaign: Which is The Best CRM? [2021 Comparison]
The Infusionsoft vs ActiveCampaign debate has a deep-running history ever since the two small business sales and marketing software companies were founded in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Since then both have combined and curated CRM, email marketing, marketing automation and e-commerce features into powerful platforms for all things automated sales and marketing for small business. […]
How to Create a Landing Page On Shopify No Coding [2021 Update]
Looking for solutions to create the best Shopify landing page on the world’s best e-commerce website platform? Great! I’m here to help! I also recommend 6 powerful landing page apps that can help you get started immediately (no coding required!). Creating a Shopify landing page is a smart sales funnel move that can increase your […]
15 of the Best Podcasts for Entrepreneurs in 2021: Looking Ahead!
Being an entrepreneur is a tough, lonely life at times. We’re the ones who trade nights out with friends or Netflix binge-watching sessions for strategy meetings and business growth development. We often spend a lot of time on the road, and in our travels, so podcasts can be a great way to learn some new […]
Yahoo! Stores vs. Shopify: Which is Best?
In today’s comparison, I will take a look at Yahoo! Stores vs. Shopify so you can finally decide which platform is better to grow your online business. They both have their pros, cons, features, so pay attention — this will help you decide! Main Differences of Yahoo! Stores vs. Shopify The main differences between Yahoo! […]
NopCommerce vs Shopify: Which One Reigns Supreme?
Finding the right e-commerce tool could be the difference between immense success or no sales! If you want to succeed in the growing, massive online e-commerce markets, then you need to do your research and find the tools that work for you. This is why I give you the full nopCommerce vs Shopify comparison! Main […]
Blake Mycoskie Exclusive: The Brand that Launched a Thousand Impact Businesses
Listen to the exclusive interview with Blake Mycoskie: Subscribe to this show on Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud In 2006, America’s top-earning CEOs were making $240 million a year while a fifth of the world lived on $1.9 a day. It was in the absurdly vast space inside the wealth gap that Blake Mycoskie found out that shoelessness […]
How to Build Rapport with Anyone (According to Neuroscience)
Building rapport with anyone is a great skill to use in sales and in life. If you want to learn how to build authentic relationships in business and in life, here are some tips I’ve learned along the way in my life. Let me explain… Gil was a friend I had the pleasure of working […]
How Edovo Is Overcoming Huge Startup Obstacles to Educate The Incarcerated
Listen to our full interview with Edovo founder, Brian Hill, here For entrepreneurs looking to create a positive influence in the social impact space, finding ways to work with neglected and abandoned sectors of the population is never easy, though certainly a necessity. Brian Hill, the CEO and founder of Edovo, has been working for […]
Creating a Lean Business Plan For Social Impact: Eric Ries & Ann Mei Chang
Listen to our full interview with Ann Mei Change and Eric Ries here The road to profits is littered with good objectives. All you need to do to launch a firecracker startup is talk to a focus group and run a few field trials. Business management is easy. Udemy and Inc.com will teach you how […]
3 Digital Marketing Mistakes to Avoid and Fix: Start Seeing Massive Results Today!
In the realm of sales and marketing, a lot of things can go wrong. There are so many touchpoints from cold lead, to buyer which leaves room for a lot of missed and lost sales. From shopping basket slowdowns to Facebook marketing pixels, there are a lot of ways your digital marketing could not be […]
How Chrissie Lam Took a Novel Idea and Turned It Into A Flourishing Social Business
This article was written by Tobias Roberts for Change Creator Magazine. We have all heard inspiring stories of how massive corporations got their humble starts in some struggling college student´s garage. Growing from a one-person entrepreneurial idea to a multinational corporation employing thousands of people can be difficult to imagine. Chrissie Lam, the founder of […]
9 Proven Signs That You’re Ready to Start Your Own Business
I was a mad scientist, head down in the lab building the brand Change Creator, my second business. But this time around, there was something different. My first business was a record label—AlterImage Recordings—and I had a co-founder. This time, I was flying solo. During the first year, I didn’t come out of the “lab” […]
How to Start Creating a Brand That Matters with Mona Amodeo
This article was written by Tobias Roberts and was originally published in Change Creator Magazine. People in business know the importance of branding. Besides setting you apart from competitors, a brand can also promote company recognition and represents the unique promise you bring to your customers. From traditional logos and symbols, to video-based outreach on […]
4 Reasons Your Marketing Strategy Isn’t Making Impact
Are you feeling stuck, constantly comparing yourself to the competition, wondering why they seem to be doing so much better than you? Are you lying awake at night wondering where your next customer is coming from or how you’re going to survive the market uncertainty the current political climate is creating? Has the constant pressure […]
SEO Tips for Low-Budget Startups: Get Started Today!
As people create blogs pages and other websites, their main focus is always to become the leading site in the organic searches. Being in the first three on every search engine gives you an upper hand of being picked by the users. Many users tend to choose from the top just because they believe that […]
Billy Parish: From Yale Dropout to Climate Change Warrior
If you’re author/activist/environmentalist and entrepreneur Billy Parish, the answer was as crystal clear and refreshing as the invigorating Himalayan air he was breathing at that most unexpected moment of epiphany.
Keeping Up With Google: The Most Powerful Way to Grow Your Business Online
Smart brands have known for some time that investing in organic traffic is the best kind of traffic, but when Google keeps changing the rules, how do you keep up? It shouldn’t matter how or when Google changes the rules. If you have a solid business, a solid vision and can communicate that clearly to […]
How Love is Project Generated $1.2M Spreading Love With Bracelets (interview)
Interview with the founder of Love is Project, Chrissie Lam Subscribe to this show on iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud #LOVEISPROJECT CONNECTS SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS CONSUMERS ACROSS THE WORLD WITH A MESSAGE OF LOVE. It grew out of a simple desire to find out what love means to people around the world, and how despite circumstance or history, […]
From Solopreneur to 7 Figures: How to Scale Through Diversification
Looking for a new revenue stream? Here are some ideas to get you thinking about building a 7-figure business with some ways you can start right away. Here’s how to scale through diversification in any business! Do you ever wonder how all those successful solopreneurs turned their idea into a 7-figure business in just a […]
How this Winery is Reversing Climate Change While Growing the Bottom Line
This article was published in partnership with B the Change Fetzer Vineyards is a company with a legacy of firsts. It was the first California wine company to operate on 100 percent renewable energy, back in 1999, and in 2005 it was the first winery to publicly report and verify its greenhouse gas emissions with […]
How Creating the Right Company Culture Motivates Employees (5 Proven Tips)
Company culture is one of those vital elements of your business reputation, one that has an impact on what sort of employees you can attract, all the way to defining how the public perceives you – because what happens inside your walls will ultimately reflect on your entire brand presentation. However, as employees as the […]
How Sarah Kauss Grew S’well into a $100M Company Combating Plastic (interview)
Humanity has failed its planet remorselessly. Freshwater resources have diminished by 25%, oceanic dead zones have ballooned, and we’ve produced 6 billion tonnes of plastic waste since 2015. We buy a million plastic bottles every minute. The resulting fragments of waste have become suspended just beneath the ocean’s surface, where they’re consumed by marine creatures […]
7 Lessons Learned From Zero-Waste Fashion Entrepreneur Rachel Faller
Think about how much clothing you buy in just one year. What about the clothing that you throw away? This is just your personal consumption. Now imagine an entire throw-away industry–that’s the fashion industry that Rachel Faller wants to change with her zero-waste fashion approach. When she sat down to talk to us here at […]
5 Expert Lessons From Dale Partridge For Turning Your Passion Into a Successful Business
Nine years ago, Dale Partridge was just like most entrepreneurs. He was launching his first business–a software company that helped rock-climbing gyms set their routes–and learning how to grow it into something successful. As the company grew, he picked up more knowledge about how to create and scale a business and he parlayed that experience […]
10 Business Lessons From The Head of Legal Policy at B Lab
Change Creator sat down with Rick Alexander, the Head of Legal Policy at B Lab who is also an expert in Corporate Governance and Benefit Corporations; Author and Speaker on Governance Topics. B Lab is a non profit organization dedicated to helping corporations and business owners shift their focus from profits to the impact that […]
The Motorcycle Ride That Led Jake Orak to His Multimillion Dollar Life Mission
The path you are on now is probably not the one you envisioned when you set out on your journey. Life has a way of leading you down unexpected avenues and, sometimes, far off the beaten track. And it is off one such beaten track, in the highlands of Vietnam, that Jake Orak found his […]
Google Fool’s Day and the Guerrilla Marketer
In days of yore, April Fool’s Day was about leaving glitter bombs on car seats and planting grass in colleagues’ keyboards. These days, it’s a marketing event glitzy enough to compete with the Super Bowl. Brands across the globe put their senses of humour to work in an attempt to win attention from a target […]
How to Establish Product Fit: Gavin Armstrong, Lucky Iron Fish (Interview)
Listen to our interview with Gavin Armstrong, founder of Lucky Iron Fish This article was originally published in Change Creator Magazine issue #6 Many social entrepreneurs often wonder how they can help hundreds of thousands of people, and at the same time build a profitable enterprise so they can turn their venture from a side […]
Turning Your Inner-Activist Into a Business for Good
The greatest social movements in this world not only bring us together, they focus on what we can do as individuals to change something intrinsically wrong with the world. In short, they give us the power and authority — as individuals — to make our world a better place. When a radical movement can harness […]
University of the Future: The Sustainable Education Model
How do you teach a human to be human? This might sound like a trick question, but it’s a question that Gabriella Geffen has to deal with every day. “Gabi” is a business development expert at the Maharishi Institute and is also a member of the National Task Team responsible for developing Entrepreneurship and Social […]
ConvertKit vs. AWeber: Decide Which Email Marketing Tool Will Work for Your Business
You know the money is in the (email) list. And you’re looking for a great email marketing software which will help you make that list, grow that list, and make money from that list. Well, you’re in the right place. In this article, I’m going to talk about two of the most awesome email marketing […]
Christal Earle, Brave Soles: How One Woman’s Mission to Save Her Daughter Led to Upcycling and Ingenuity Breaking the Poverty Cycle
The full interview with the founder of Brave Soles, Christal Earle Subscribe to this show on iTunes | Stitcher | Soundcloud Christal Earle is a lot of things; she is a social entrepreneur who believes change is possible through smart collaboration and thinking differently. She’s a social advocate for the stateless peoples of the Dominican Republic and […]
ConvertKit vs GetResponse: One is Better!
When you’re faced with choosing an email marketing tool for your business, remember this: You shouldn’t be on the lookout for a tool that has ‘all the features’. Rather, you should be getting a tool – or any kind of software – based on whether it has the right features. That’s why today I compare […]
6 Ways to Enjoy the Holidays as an Entrepreneur 2018
This time of year can be quite stressful. Not only are we leaving another year behind, but we’re also starting off a new one. As entrepreneurs, it can be tempting to take this time to ‘catch up’ on all those lingering projects we’ve wanted to get done all year, but I would caution you against […]
How to Tell Your Brand Story To Connect Meaningfully With Your Audience (5 Tips)
This article was originally published on The Sedge. Marketing. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this is not your favorite part of being a Change Creator. It might even be the last thing on your list. It might feel a bit scary or uncomfortable; it might feel like a task […]
How Vangst Built the Number One Cannabis Recruiting Platform From Scratch
This article was originally published in Change Creator Magazine issue 19. For a great entrepreneurial idea to grow into a successful and thriving business, there is often a window of opportunity that is momentarily open. Successful business people know how to take advantage of that window of opportunity even when traditional business wisdom advises the opposite. […]
Life of a CEO: Knife-in-the-Back to Epiphany
My “knife-in-the-back” experience had a positive side in that it led me to experience an epiphany. Congrats, you say – so what? I agree, so what, people experience their epiphany every day. Wikipedia says an epiphany (from the ancient Greek epiphaneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”) is an experience of a sudden and striking realization. To have […]
Opportunities For Climate Entrepreneurs and Impact Investors
This article was originally published on B The Change. It’s been a busy time for the environment. Actually, it’s been a busy 50 years, but when the conversation around the health of the planet recedes into the background, we get shockingly destructive reminders. For example, Hurricanes Michael and Florence and the earthquake in Indonesia which […]
The Art of Storytelling for Business: How to Connect With Your Audience
I’m writing a book. I’m writing a screenplay. I’m giving a presentation such as a TED Talk. When you think about what a story is, those probably come to mind immediately. The truth is, the art of storytelling goes much deeper and is applied to just about everything in our lives. Today, as entrepreneurs trying to […]
