Tag: Past Presidents’ Tips

Do I Hear Opportunity Knocking?

We asked our AIIP Past Presidents to share their tips on building and growing a successful independent information business.  

Cindy Shamel, AIIP President (2003-2004) shares some tips on looking for new markets.

My livelihood depends upon successfully engaging a target market willing to pay cash money for my products and services.  Today I have an established client base, but sustainability requires strategic and ongoing monitoring looking for gaps and opportunities.
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Finding a balance that works

We asked our AIIP Past Presidents to share their tips on building and growing a successful independent information business.  

Crystal Sharp (AIIP President, 2006) shares her ideas on finding a balance that works.

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In the usual course of play, study, or work, individuals — consciously or not — take steps to exert some control over their immediate short-term or long-term future. What is unsettling about Facebook, Linked In, Snapchat and the churn and flux of new social communication channels is the rapid pace at which our world is being stretched, flattened and flexed. As the familiar and predictable structures of social, professional and personal relationships are shifted, we are left less in control.

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Four things successful solopreneurs do every day

We asked our AIIP Past Presidents to share their tips on building and growing a successful independent information business.  

Mary Ellen Bates, AIIP President (1996-97 and 2004-5) shares four great tips.

I have often wondered about why some people succeed as solopreneurs and others don’t. Almost everyone I run into has at least the basic skills needed for their business; it isn’t that they can’t do the work. Rather, I see attitude and approach as the distinguishing factors between successful business owners and those who never seem to get the traction they need.

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