The Introvert Entrepreneur

As surely as Christmas happens on December 25 every year, stress levels seem to skyrocket during the holiday season between just before Thanksgiving to just after New Year’s. There is pressure coming from all sides: to be happy, to attend parties and family dinners, to feel connecte...

When I witnessed a recent claim - and subsequent retraction - of “I’m an extrovert” by an introvert, it got me thinking again about how we introverts sometimes negate that part of our personality. We think it’s a curse. We t...

One of the most commonly shared laments I hear from introverts is “I don’t know how to talk about myself!” We are often so focused on our business or work, or creating magic behind the scenes, that when someone s...

In the world of business, we toss around words like marketing, messaging and branding with wild abandon. We talk about how we need a clear brand message or marketing strategy… but do we really know what that means? Do we know what goes into creating an effective brand that moves ...

Between 2002 and January 2009, the blog search engine Technorati had indexed as many as 133 million online blogs. With the estimated number of blogs doubling about every six months, some sources that index blogs report numbers as high as 400 million - and that’s in English language blogs alone. Since the fi...

If you are tired of struggling with your sales goals and are just plain frustrated with the pushy, manipulative approach to sales and selling, you’ll be interested in what my guest, Tshombé Brown of Your Signature Coachin...

Do any of these things sound familiar to you? You’re smart, capable and want to make a difference You have fears: of rejection, of failure, of success. You worry about what other people think. You’re held back by lack of confidence. If you said “Yes!” to even one of those statements, you’re in the right place.

In Part 1 of this podcast series on LinkedIn, I spoke with Viveka Von Rosen of Linked into Business about finding your footing in the ...

With the virtual landslide of social media options we have, a few have emerged as basic and necessary to anyone who has their own business or navigate the corporate landscape. They are like the social media triple threat: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Of the three, LinkedIn has been the most mysterious. Con...

It doesn’t seem to matter if you’re an introvert or an extrovert – networking and putting yourself out there on behalf of your business takes its toll after a while. In this podcast of The Introvert Entrepreneur, Val Nelson joins us to help give us all some new perspectives and approaches to networking with ease.