Very well written book that's offers solid advice for anyone that wants to start their own business and learn how to do that while still making their personal way instead of following a specific plan.
Definelty a Great read for anyone that wants to or started their own especially online business and needs a bit of help or just wants to see what tips are out there!

What do you do if you want to build a business in today's digital world?

In Entrepreneurial You, Dorie Clark shows us how to utilize and take advantage of digital technologies to build our own brand and create the desired situation with multiple income streams.

Using her own entrepreneurial journey as an example, Clark presents the reader with the many earning opportunities made available to us by the internet and the global economy.

For the purposes of this book, she has interviewed several successful entrepreneurs who have been able to monetize their knowledge & expertise to build thriving businesses through blogging, vlogging, speaking, coaching, podcasting, and affiliate marketing.

The book presents roadmaps for how to build a successful business, and what kind of mindset it takes to make success happen.

A good read for aspiring entrepreneurs looking for solid business advice as well as for those who have been in business for a while and want to diversify to play on more strings.

Love this book. Dozens and dozens of stories of people who have made it. Dorie is the master of personal branding. She is a great storyteller, using both examples from her life of fashioning from a journalist to the professor, writer, social media queen. I subscribe to her newsletter. Her tips are helpful.

Well written, very clear and informative. This would be very useful for someone just starting out with their own business.

A well written book with practical guidelines and resources to help readers on their entrepreneurial journey. Dorie shares lessons learned from successful entrepreneurs and explains what steps to take to create multiple streams of income.

This was a clear and approachable guide to standing out as a developing business. I think people could easily follow through with some of the concepts and see clear results.

In the third installment of this amazing series, Clark takes on the big challenge of how your reinvented, stand out self makes money!

Great book if you are just starting out running your own business. Dorie's style of writing is very clear and down to earth. She uses practical examples and doesn't assume any base level of knowledge. I have been a fan of James Clear for awhile and was so glad to see him featured!

The book is certainly well written and I feel it's aimed at those who have not recently been engaged with social media or never worked for themselves before. This would not be the book for those who have been in business awhile.

This is a great book to help you feel empowered and motivated to get started bringing the entrepreneur out of you!

How do you build a business in this digital world?

In Entrepreneurial You, Dorie Clark shows us how to take advantage of existing digital technologies to build our own personal brand and create multiple income streams.

With her own entrepreneurial journey as an example, she presents to us the many earning opportunities made available by the internet and the global economy. She also interviewed successful entrepreneurs who were able to monetize their expertise and build a thriving business through blogging, vlogging, speaking, coaching, podcasting, and affiliate marketing.

In easy to understand language, the book presents a roadmap on how to build a successful career, including how to have the right mindset to make success happen.

A good read for aspiring entrepreneurs looking for solid business advice.

ENTREPRENEURIAL YOU

If you're the type of person who wants to break out as an entrepreneur, management consultant, or already has a side hustle in the gig economy, Dorie's Clark's Entrepreneurial You is the book for you.

It may be described as a how-to book for entrepreneurship attuned to the social media age. Clark begins by making the point that, if recent economic downturns are anything to go by, the typical salaried job is not as stable as it was once perceived to be, and therefore it's important to know what it takes to succeed as entrepreneurs.

A large part of "what it takes" involves determination and hard work, which in and of themselves do not guarantee success. Hence, Clark zeroes in on the many tools available to entrepreneurs today to help manage their personal branding, scale their reach, and further monetize the wealth of their experience. Some of the tips Clark offers are old hat–for example, writing articles or books or even hitting the speaking circuit–yet delivered with the clarity of someone who's done it herself. More importantly, she also dedicates a substantial amount of discussion to tools and opportunities that are only possible in today's tech-enabled world, such as podcasting, vlogging, affiliate marketing or even creating online courses.

As such, Entrepreneurial You is a valuable resource for those keen to strike out on their own in today's world, more so since Clark exerts effort to cite examples of entrepreneurs who have become successful pursuing many of the avenues identified in the book.

That said, there are some critical points worth belaboring:

First, notwithstanding Clark's enthusiasm for entrepreneurship in general, what's left unsaid is that not everyone is wired to be an entrepreneur. While Clark can cite authoritatively from her experience and invoke the successful experience of some entrepreneur or other, there's survivorship bias at play. To put if differently: for every successful entrepreneur, there are many multiples over who have failed spectacularly and arguably may have been better off staying on the path of salaried employment.

Second, while there's plenty for entrepreneurs of all stripes to take away from Entrepreneurial You, it would seem that the book itself is geared towards a specific type of entrepreneur: the management consultant/executive coach. So mileage may vary.

Finally, there is an obvious subtext to Clark's book: that entrepreneurship can be very, very hard work. From her own stories and from the various examples peppered throughout the book, Clark points out exactly how lucrative entrepreneurship can be (often in the high six-figure dollar range). But the amount of effort required to get to that point, not to mention to maintain such earning power, sometimes appears superhuman. Often, what gets romanticized is the freedom associated with entrepreneurship; that is, the ability to do one's own thing on one's own time. Yet from the stories throughout Entrepreneurial You, it should be clear, if anything, that the amount of hustle entrepreneurship requires tends to even things out.

Another great read from Dorie Clark. I was first introduced to Dorie's work through her book, Reinventing You and have enjoyed catching her consistent podcast interviews. Entrepreneurial You was no exception to the great insight I've come to expect from Dorie. In this book Dorie doesn't just present a case for "why" starting a side hustle is a great idea. She also follows it up with the "how" and provides tangible ways we can expand our reach online and offline and build a profitable, impactful business teaching what we know.

Entrepreneurial You is a roadmap to become successful at what ever Enterprise you may be considering. The author offers quite a few examples of other successful entrepreneur's and how they accomplished their success.

What a fantastic book for any businessman or woman! This book is not only for entrepreneurs, but for people who want to get ahead in life. People who want to be the best they can be. I really loved how Dorie Clark had interactive worksheets to print out and links to her website for more help on boosting your business. She also included so many topics with stories from real live people who used these techniques to grow their businesses to the top. This is a book I will refer to on a weekly basis for ideas on how to grow my own businesses. Why invent the wheel? Use the suggestions in this book because they are proven to work.

Thank you to Netgalley, Dorie Clark, and Harvard Business Review Plus for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Love this book!! Really simple and daring idea (most importantly easy to follow - you need commitment)

Thank you Netgalley for this book

“Entrepreneurial You seeks to address what I believe is the most important question of all: How can you create a long-term, sustainable business that rewards you emotionally, intellectually, and financially?”
Dorie Clark presents us with the entrepreneurial opportunities presented nowadays, with the internet and the globalized economy, that can be rewarding in all aspects of our lives, including financially: “It seems like poetic justice: the same internet technology that has caused so many workforce displacements (the decimation of newspapers, to name just one) also offers us more opportunities than ever to fulfill our unique visions as entrepreneurs. Today you can scale your efforts, skills, and expertise in unprecedented ways that give you choice in how you want to live your life”.
She shows us how to monetize our expertise, how to build a career simply by sharing our ideas in the world. How to become a coach or a consultant, a speaker, a podcaster, or a blogger/vlogger. She underlines several steps toward extending our reach and impact to our readers/costumers through online courses, the creation of digital products and online communities.
Her tone is optimistic and empowering. She presents a road map for us to think creatively and consciously about how to monetize our ideas: “The world needs your ideas—and you need to be paid for them. That’s the path to lasting influence, impact, and freedom".
Overall, a good reading. The idea of an entrepreneurial, self-reliant, work-from-wherever-you-are economy appeals to me.
(If you want technical information, though, you will have to search elsewhere, but I don’t think this was this book’s objective).

If you’re fed up of the daily grind and fancy setting up on your own, this book might prove a good starting point. The tagline is a good indication of the content – ‘Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive’. Clark offers advice on choosing what to do, building your brand and finding people to buy from you. There are plenty of case studies to be inspired by and, unlike many other business books, it’s not too heavy a read.

We can all be entrepreneurs if we can just recognise it and then work on actualising it. This book sets out to show you how to create the entrepreneurial career you may want, in what is a rapidly-changing world of work. Whether you are looking for a full-time career or a side job, it may ignite the fire you need in your belly to succeed.

This is far from a ‘how to in 21 days…’ book, promising the earth before running away at speed. There will be a lot of hard work ahead before you get any reward. This book seeks to help you sensitively and realistically set your goals, whilst still showing that there can be potential. Nothing is ever guaranteed, yet it can give hope for those who want it. Not every entrepreneur will be a millionaire, despite the shiny promises many books seek to make. Working for yourself can be damn hard for often little (visible) reward. Yet rewards can come in forms other than hard currency and there is always the exception to the mainstream rule…

It is written in a clear, accessible style without hyperbole. The chapters are short but sweet, so you can focus your attention on the information being provided, building up your confidence and knowledge to design and possible implement an entrepreneurial activity. Even if you don’t eventually ‘pull the pin’ and go it alone, it is quite conceivable that you can transfer some of the skills and knowledge to your regular working life too, making things a little easier and better for everyone in the process due to your ‘entrepreneurial mind’ being enthused.

The author is an entrepreneur and has the bruises to prove it. For the book they interviewed over 50 other entrepreneurs to get their take on the skills and mindset needed to succeed, distilling the sum of this wisdom for the benefit of the reader. If you are already involved, somehow, as an entrepreneur, then don’t automatically dismiss this book, since you may get some useful data from other successful entrepreneurs that you can utilise.

It left a ‘nice taste’ in the mind. It was a lot better than I initially feared, since I’ve seen a lot of entrepreneur-type books that left me in a sense of despair and frustration. This could be said to be one of the good guys. It passes on the realities of entrepreneurial activity, discusses diversification and shows some of the downsides, whilst as you would expect encouraging you to still have a go and try and make it.

It is absolutely worth your consideration!

Entrepreneurial You, written by Dorie Clark and published by Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 9781633692275. YYYYY

This book is jam-packed with case studies and examples of the highly successful. What it did not mention as thoroughly as I had hoped was information for the beginning entrepreneur. The statistics of success which were quoted can be somewhat daunting to a newbie! Regardless, there was sufficient familiarity with many of the people quoted to keep it interesting. I would recommend this book as a view into a different kind of world than most entrepreneurs are likely to attain but all probably dream about.
Chapter 12 was worth hanging on for as this is where I received the encouragement I was looking for, We are each unique and need to find the level of freedom that pertains to ourself.

If you have ever thought about starting your own business or finding a nice side gig to augment your day job, Entrepreneurial You is for you. In just 272 pages, Entrepreneurial You contains enough tips for a stack of business books and several classes.

The format is simple. Each chapter starts with a goal (i.e., Build Your Brand, Monetize Your Experience, Extend Your Reach and Impact Online). It then gives the reader several ways to accomplish each goal (speaking engagements, blogging, writing an eBook, etc.) Within each idea are practical ways to accomplish each goal. The best part is the Try This section at the end of each chapter. It lists either questions you should ask yourself or activities that can be used immediately to accomplish your goal.

Each chapter builds on the last. The first few discuss how to determine your product or service, develop a price, decide on a market, and begin your business. Later chapters explain how to build an existing business up to a level to support both you and your family. It discusses how to hire employees and get crowdfunded. The book also mentions some pitfalls (i.e., focusing on low price high volume sales or display ad income is not a good start-up strategy). It has many real life examples of how other entrepreneurs have used the book’s tips and tricks to become successful. The author writes in a style that motivates the reader to get off their chair and start their new business!

I chose Entrepreneurial You to help build my book blog’s brand and traffic. However, it is so great that I recommend it to anyone that watches Shark Tank and dreams of a better life than working for others can provide. There is no better step-by-step guide to starting a side gig or a full blown business. 5 stars.

Thanks to the publisher, Harvard Business Review Press, and netgalley for an advanced review copy in exchange for an honest review. This book will be published on October 3, 2017.

I received an advance review copy from NetGalley for this book.

The book serves to answer questions on how people with certain expertise can monetize their ideas using internet as a platform. It has full of useful tips and guidelines that will help one implement the ideas all throughout. While it does not teach the technical aspects of blogging, podcasting, etc it brings readers general perspective on how certain entrepreneurs became successful by having multiple streams of income.

This book also has the assumption of helping readers who already have certain marketable expertise. If you are just starting to figure out what your specialty is this book will have its full relevance and value once you know what you can offer your potential clients.

The books is also very easy to read. Dorie Clark, the author also shared a lot of her personal experience in this entrepreneurial journey. I started to get familiar with her works while reading articles from HBR.

Personally, I find this book helpful in starting to see my options. I am starting to figure out what areas of expertise I can share in the future. Knowing the ideas in this book will be really helpful once I raise my expertise level that I can teach it to others.