About the Author – Clay Clark has received the U.S. SBA Entrepreneur of the Year, the U.S. Chamber National Blue Ribbon Quality Award, the Metro Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year Award and various other entrepreneurship awards

Scottsdale , Arizona – Today I am in Scottsdale, Arizona preparing to work with a group of credit managers. However, no matter where I am in the country, working as a business coach has allowed me to personally witness many business success stories first-hand, but it has also forced me confront the reality that many of today’s small business owners are currently dealing with one of the two following issues:

Statistics from the U.S. Small Business Administration continue to show that 9 out of 10 small businesses throughout our country will fail in the first year. Then statistics show us that 9 out of the 10 that make it through that first year successfully will ultimately fail over the next 5 years. Despite the fact that this information is statistically true, it does not have to be the case. Thus, to help bridge gap between what the academics teach and what the laws of capitalism demand I have come up with the following 5 Step System To Transform Your Existing Business From Marginal To Magnificent and From Unscalable To Infinitely Duplicatable.

HI, Today I just thought some of you guys and girls might be keen to know what its like living and working online in Thailand..So here goes..Although today I am actually in Laos.

If you click on this link you will see where I live and where I am now. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/thailand/

You can see Thailand. Look at the top and I live in Udon Thani, But at the moment I am in Ventienne in Laos.. I come here every 2 mths to get a 60 day visa so I like to treat it as a Vacation sort of speak.

I go to the Thai embassy in Ventienne, I drop my passport in say Thursday for example and pick it up Friday lunch with my new visa in. This next 3 mths Visa,s are free which is great!! They usually cost about 30 usd and I have asked for 2 so thats good..

Law schools, colleges and business schools all over this country teach business and theory of business, important stuff no doubt. But when you get ready to kick off a new venture, do any of them teach you the steps to take? Do you know the actual practical steps to take?

I teach at two local colleges and am blessed to get the opportunity to teach a course which is close enough to this topic that I can not only teach the core material but to actually teach them how to actually start a business. I mean the down and dirty 1-2-3′s of the process.

Most people simply go to an attorney or accountant and pay them for their help. But let’s think about that? Have they ever been in business? These guys are professionals, not businessmen. What experiences have most of them had actually starting a business? Most have no such experience. Then why do we tend to think they can help?