The American Entrepreneur

The Mid-Week Mentor: The Trials and Tribulations of Starting a Business on the Side

Steve McDonald

“Your Mid-Week Mentor”, John Rodgers of Dale Carnegie Systems, talks with Steve McDonald of Talk’n’Tables, an advertising and marketing firm specializing in selling tabletop advertisements for bars, restaurants, and other establishments.  Steve discusses the challenges he has faced as he has attempted to build and grow his business while still maintaining his “day job” in government.

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  • “Little Bets” on Your Business Can have Big Payoffs

    Think of the biggest ideas to ever hit it big in business. Chances are, they got that way, not by following a grand plan to the letter every step of the way, but by a series of small tweaks and adjustments, experimenting with the direction of the company, and remaining able to easily course-correct if things don’t appear to be heading in a good direction. Author Peter Sims chronicled over 200 examples of small tweaks-turned-big for his new book, “Little Bets”, and he talks with The International Capitalist, David Iwinski, about his findings.

  • Holding Ourselves Accountable in the New Year

    Your Mid-Week Mentor John Rodgers, of Dale Carnegie Training, hosts an hour of open talk, discussing several ways in which we can hold ourselves accoutable in our lives and business in the new year.

  • The Mid-Week Mentor: The Trials and Tribulations of Starting a Business

    “Your Mid-Week Mentor”, John Rodgers of Dale Carnegie Systems, talks with Steve McDonald of Talk’n'Tables, an advertising and marketing firm specializing in selling tabletop advertisements for bars, restaurants, and other establishments. Steve discusses the challenges he has faced as he has attempted to build and grow his business while still maintaining his “day job” in government.

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