Whether you are already an entrepreneur, working to maintain the entrepreneurial spirit within your company, or just thinking about starting your own business, this book will help you realize your dreams and make a real difference in your life and the lives of others. Unlike the aspirations of generations before us, the American dream today is more about entrepreneurial spirit than it is about security. This book dispels the myth that entrepreneurs are good only at starting companies, and provides the strategies and the inspiration that will help you leave your mark on the world and change things for the better. Seize the American Dream offers the tools you need to act on your passion, build a solid and effective organization, and realize financial freedom in the process.

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Seize the American Dream Dispels Myths and Provides Hope to Entrepreneurs Everywhere

We have all heard it again and again:

Entrepreneurs are good only at starting companies; they are terrible at running them.

Entrepreneurs are great idea people, but are terrible managers.

Sadly, it is these myths that keep many of the world’s most creative and inspired people from pursuing their dreams. That is, until now.

Seize the American Dream: 10 Entrepreneurial Success Strategies is a book for entrepreneurs and people who yearn to build or grow a business, improve lives, and achieve financial freedom. Whether you are a company of one or one thousand, the strategies in this book take you from dream to reality using actionable methods that have proven successful in businesses nationwide. The contents are the result of a 30-year entrepreneurial experiment called CyCare. Houtz started this company in 1967 with $1,500 and ten shares of IBM stock and sold it in 1996 for $276 million. His experience with CyCare was a proving ground for what did and did not work. Companies using the successful strategies Houtz developed are achieving similar results today.

This is not a book of theory, and it is more than a how-to book. It combines no-nonsense advice with proven business methods that you can put into practice immediately. You’ll learn how to recognize opportunity, get your idea off the ground, secure financing, build your business, and much more. Seize the American Dream is the new guidebook of entrepreneurial business management and the must-have tool for lasting business success.

About the Author
Jim H. Houtz, has been an entrepreneur since 1967. From that point forward he made it his life’s work to build companies and the people within them. He is a mentor to young entrepreneurs who have great ideas and an overwhelming desire to achieve success. He is also a husband, father and grandfather. Through lectures and this book, which is the blueprint of his success, he hopes to awaken the entrepreneurial spirit in a new generation of leaders and provide them with the insights they need to succeed. (jimh@jagrand.com)

Kathy Heasley has been a business communications professional and writer since 1984. She has helped countless businesses and business leaders formulate messages and communicate with their various audiences through the written and spoken word. She is currently the founder and principal of Integrated Marketing Solutions, Inc., an Arizona-based marketing consulting firm. (kheasley@marketingadvice.com)

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