What does it really take to launch a start up? What can you learn from others who have done it? Jordan Mercedes launches a Start-Up Mentors series with interviews from business owners across various industries. They share their best advice on what they learned while starting their businesses.

Meet Spotlight Momentum Mentor Chris Brogan, Human Business Works. Every business can benefit from having a good mentor, someone that helps them to gain momentum and continue moving their work and services forward. Chris Brogan is mentor to thousands, we turn the spotlight on him in this article.

Sometimes the work you do can only be described by one word: BAD. It’s tough when you get to the place where you have to admit that the work you’re doing is just not good enough. It’s not cutting the cheese or the mustard or anything else. It’s just bad.

Why be mediocre when you can be great? What difference does it make if you go through the world just getting by, instead of rockin’ out your business and life with great things?

You have a business, you have customers…but you need more. There’s only one problem. You hate marketing. Why do so many business owners hate marketing? Mostly because there are so many marketing streams to choose

How is your content marketing working for you? Are you getting new clients and projects as a result of putting out great and useful information? If not, don’t worry there’s time to improve and turn things around.

A giant shift happened yesterday with one movement attracting involvement from over a billion people through social media. Yesterday was World Humanitarian Day a day that was designated by the United Nations in 2009 to commemorate the in Bagdad that killed 22 people.

Sharing resources can speed up the time it takes to get things done and helps you become more efficient in your business practices.

Power comes when you focus your passion, branding, intention, attitude, story and belief and use them to create a success strategy.

Last month I wrote an article called The Power of Business Mistakes, little did I know I was hitting a nerve or at least a concern