{"id":2758,"date":"2009-10-20T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2016-07-05T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:03:58","slug":"youve-got-the-mind-of-an-entrepreneur-whether-you-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/youve-got-the-mind-of-an-entrepreneur-whether-you-like-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got the Mind of An Entrepreneur Whether You Like It or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/beatkueng\/3946518449\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2765\" title=\"entrepreneur\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/entrepreneur.jpg\" alt=\"entrepreneur\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/entrepreneur.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/entrepreneur-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\\&#8217;\\&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>It&#8217;s true<\/h3>\n<p>No matter what you&#8217;re doing, whether you&#8217;re a therapist, coach, or artist, if you&#8217;re selling products or services, you&#8217;re an entrepreneur. <strong>It&#8217;s a mindset, not a title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An entrepreneurial-minded person <strong>comes up with creative avenues to generate income<\/strong>. It doesn&#8217;t matter how they do it or what they know when they undertake it. All that matters is that they are building a system to make money.<\/p>\n<h3>Entrepreneurs aren&#8217;t just business geeks<\/h3>\n<p>Being educated in business and starting a business, doesn&#8217;t make you any more an entrepreneur than the photographer selling his work. You <em>might<\/em> know a bit more about running a business but <strong>you&#8217;re still hawking your shit to make a living<\/strong>. You&#8217;re still using your creativity to generate income.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you have an MBA. It matters that you have an idea and you are executing it.<\/p>\n<h3>Sustainable entrepreneurs must be marketers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><strong>f you want to stay in business<\/strong>, embrace that you are a marketer too. Always be working to <strong>understand how you can better connect your work with the people who want it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"photo credit photoplacebo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/beatkueng\/3946518449\/\">&#8216;photoplacebo&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/beatkueng\/3946518449\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2765\" title=\"entrepreneur\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/entrepreneur.jpg\" alt=\"entrepreneur\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/entrepreneur.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/entrepreneur-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n[tweetmeme]<\/p>\n<h3>It&#8217;s true<\/h3>\n<p>No matter what you&#8217;re doing, whether you&#8217;re a therapist, coach, or artist, if you&#8217;re selling products or services, you&#8217;re an entrepreneur. <strong>It&#8217;s a mindset, not a title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An entrepreneurial-minded person <strong>comes up with creative avenues to generate income<\/strong>. It doesn&#8217;t matter how they do it or what they know when they undertake it. All that matters is that they are building a system to make money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","category-being-an-innerpreneur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}