Mike Michalowicz (pronounced Mi-COW-Low-Witz) is best known as “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.”  In the name of Independence Day, Mike asked serial entrepreneurs to share their entreprenurial independence story.  My entrepreneurial independence snippet was featured on Mike’s site and I wanted to share it here, on our blog, as one more reminder to appreciate how liberating our work can be!!

Entrepreneur Independence - DECLARED!

I claimed my professional Independence the minute our website, www.webmarketingtherapy.com went live. Launching A Virtual Company Was My Professional Liberation!  Seeing my blood, sweat and tears launch into a real virtual company was so liberating. No more senior management, ever again!!!  At WMT, this is not my company, it is OUR company.  It is a self-directed team, driven by the wild web women and our partners (you!)  I relish the ability to create my own professional destiny (every day!) and support my team, clients, students, WMT members and partners as they claim theirs.

Entreprenurial independence is a personal and professional privilege and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Our country was founded on entrepreneurial spirit.  Whether we work for ourselves, as contractors or at companies, full time, part time or maybe not at all (as lots of professionals are inbetween jobs, building businesses, relaunching their professional destiny) we are all running businesses and acting as entrepreneurs…

Do you have an Entrepreneurial Independence story or words of wisdom? 

Happy 4th Wild Web People!

Hugs,
The Wild Web Team at Web Marketing Therapy

This is a brilliantly written post (blog brilliant = short, simple, poignant) about what it takes to be a true Power Professional (male or female!)  At the end of the day, it really is all about owning what we do well and having the guts to bring it to the table.  It seems that far too often, CONFIDENCE is the missing link that keeps “professionals” from being true PROS.

The book Patricia Handschiegel is referring to in her post is called Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power and Purpose  by Kathy Caprino. 

I made a New Year’s Resolution to “make more time to read marketing books to boost my she-geek status” on the Web Marketing Therapy blog, so I purchased the book today to check it out.  Even though I am a diseased entrepreneur that owns it, I also own that I don’t know what I don’t know and always need to read to learn, give, grow and love…it is only through staying on my game that I can be the best web marketing therapist to help you help yourselves!Check out the book Breakdown, Breakthrough: The Professional Woman’s Guide to Claiming a Life of Passion, Power and Purpose and let me know what you think of it.  I am not endorsing it…yet

This is the year to purge your professional passion.  The economy sucks, which is actually a good thing…why? 

Because this is the PRIME time to embrace work that rocks your world, regroup, rebuild and reposition yourself into the professional that you want to be.

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