Is Now a Good Time to Become an Entrepreneur? Will Economic Hard Times Result in More Entrepreneurs?

Personally, I think it’s a GREAT time to start a business. You can enter at the bottom of the market…you’ll have challenges and create routines and systems in your business – by shear force of economic environment – that will serve you well later. Many Depression era entrepreneurs stand out as America’s wealthiest today.

There are unique challenges today – like tight credit and rising health insurance costs – but entrepreneurship offers benefits like no other gig on earth. There is the reward for your hard work, the control you can hold over your own destiny, the flexibility and passion that you can enjoy in your work.

If you think with your pocketbook, take a long hard look at your investment portfolio… if you were to invest some of your savings into an entrepreneurial venture – as well as a good chunk of your heart and soul – you would have far greater control over your investments – and your future – than any stock broker can provide. There are businesses for sale with solid track records – and like so much of the marketplace – it’s a buyers market.

For some ideas…check out www.bizbuysell.com.

Wall Street Journal blogger Kelly Spors pontificated on entrepreneurial stats this morning, and it’ll be interesting to see how the cookie crumbles as corporate America continues to downsize…

Independent Street : Will Economic Hard Times Result in More Entrepreneurs?.

For me, I am more passionate than ever before – and I am seeking new ways to refine my entrepreneurship skills and create an information pool whereby more of you may also be successful entrepreneurs.

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Marianna Hayes, Andy Chapman, and their team are Team HALO, home of the Results Revolution. Team HALO helps restaurants, hotels, downtown districts and other hospitality-based businesses target, connect, engage, convert, and retain customers using on-line and off-line marketing tactics and expert strategy that includes strategic use of web and social media. Our backgrounds in journalism, process management, technology, marketing come together for a unique, practical and measureable application of New Media and Social Media tools for our clients.

Marianna is a frequent speaker to organizations across America including the National Main Streets Conference and America’s Mart University. Marianna and Andy have appeared in numerous media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com.