I need your help to pick a good title

Posted at 7:31 on Tuesday November 29, 2005 | Filed Under Miscellaneous

I can't think of a good title for a talk I'm giving next month (drawing material from this site about Barriers, The Myth of the Great Idea, etc).

Can you help?

Here are my 2 tentative titles:

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship:
How to Start a Company or Run a Project Better Than Anyone Else

-or-

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Play the Game Better Than Anyone Else

Both of these are kinda lame. Do you have any ideas? I'll give a prize to the person who makes the winning suggestion.

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Comments (27)

1.: Plastic Bags and Secrets

Posted by Ye at November 29, 2005 07:40 AM

2.: How about:
Personal entrepreneurship: 5 secrets to achieving your objectives.

or

Personal Entrepreneurship: 5 secrets to becoming a top competitor.

Posted by Steve at November 29, 2005 07:51 AM

3.: Personal entrepreneurship: 5 facts you need to know.

The/Your First 5 in the entrepreneurial ballgame.

5 forgotten facts to become a great entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur: Five Facts for a Fabulous Future

5 Secrets every Entrepreneur Must know.

Posted by norman livla at November 29, 2005 08:28 AM

4.: You could just say, "Personal Entrepeneurship: Doing Everything Better than Everyone Else"

I don't know your audience, though. Such an informal title could be a turn-off, or it could sound too corporate for a bunch of college students. If you want to dress it politely, you could just call it, "Being the Best".

But there's no real need to say "5 secrets of", in my opinion.

Posted by Craig at November 29, 2005 08:34 AM

5.: Entrepreneur: Five Secrets for Success.

Five Gems for the Personal entrepreneur.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets to have the edge.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five things you should never Forget.

Get the edge from your competitors with these Five Golden rules.

Good luck, hope you find my entries useful, too early to think :P

Posted by norman livla at November 29, 2005 08:42 AM

6.: How about:

Mastering Personal Entrepreneurship: The 5 steps you need to succeed

or

Mastering Personal Entrepreneurship: Taking your career/life to a new level

Posted by brandon at November 29, 2005 08:46 AM

7.: I'm not sure what you mean by personal entrepreneurship. Can you explain the "personal" term in your proposed title?

Great blog! So, here's a suggestion...

How to Start and Run a Perfect Company for You AND Your Customers: The 5 Secrets to Entrepreneurship

Best wishes on your speaking engagement.

Posted by Steven Koszis at November 29, 2005 08:55 AM

8.: Steven, I wrote a post all about what personal entrepreneurship is here.

Posted by Ramit Sethi at November 29, 2005 08:58 AM

9.: Don't "play" the game...change it!

Posted by David Johnston at November 29, 2005 09:14 AM

10.: Superstardom through Personal Entrepreneurship: 5 secrets you can't learn from any college Buck sends you to

OR

5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship (the following are all subtitle
suggestions)

What so few top students do to also excel in their careers

What you need to know now to not get stuck after college

How to be better than the rest of the best

Simple ways to WOW people with your work

Posted by Ian Ybarra at November 29, 2005 09:39 AM

11.: the 5 secrets i learned from noah kagan:)

Posted by noah at November 29, 2005 10:08 AM

12.: How the lack of a title won't cripple my speech.

Posted by Jennifer at November 29, 2005 10:27 AM

13.: 5 RULES OF PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE SECRETS TO ACHEIVING THE EXTRAORDINARY

Posted by RYAN BATTLES at November 29, 2005 10:59 AM

14.: 5 Answers To The Questions You Should Be Asking

5 New Solutions To The Same Old Problems (or Questions)

"5" -- The Keys to Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs

Posted by Russ Thornton at November 29, 2005 11:26 AM

15.: I was looking the english equivalent for the spanish phrase: "manos a la obra", whose meaning is "let's start working" or "let's do it now".

It could be:
("manos a la obra"):
start achieving your goals right now.

Posted by Jacobo at November 29, 2005 12:03 PM

16.: The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship:
Play the Game of Business with an Edge

Posted by Solomon Folks at November 29, 2005 12:07 PM

17.: The 5 "Rules" of Success:
How Personal Entrepreneurs Break Them All

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: Breaking Barriers and Setting Boundaries

The 5 Hurdles of Personal Entrepreneurship and Why They're Not Hurdles Afterall

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: Turning Hurdles Into Launchpads

Posted by DUST!N at November 29, 2005 12:15 PM

18.: Stop sabataging your success: Five Tools for Personal Entrepreneurship

Posted by Jennie at November 29, 2005 01:46 PM

19.: The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: Kicking Butt in the 21st Century

Posted by jeff at November 29, 2005 02:07 PM

20.: Personal Entrepreneur: Five Foundations for Success.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five things your competition doesn't know.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five simple steps for success.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five secrets for your advantage.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets for Survival.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets for segregating the competition.

Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets....that you'll want to know.

Posted by norman at November 29, 2005 02:50 PM

21.: The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Get Ahead by Wasting Your Time

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Ignore Bad Advice

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How Idiots Get Rich, and You Can Too

The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Get Rich Without Being an Idiot

Posted by Mr. Anonymous at November 29, 2005 02:57 PM

22.: I'm not sure exactly what your talk is about, so I'm only hazarding a guess here, but how about...

Obstacles to Successful Enterpreneurship; How they exist only in your mind

Posted by regular_reader at November 29, 2005 04:08 PM

23.: How about a Mel Brooks-ism, originally about Moses and the 20 (er, um) 10 Commandments. "I have these 10 keys to Entrepreneurship" - then drop 1 tablet of 2 which shatters..."I have these 5 keys to Entrepreneurship." Perfect - and funny is a good way to start a presentation.

Posted by Daniel Burgin at November 29, 2005 04:29 PM

24.: here are my last hurah:

Personal Entrepreneur: The Rule of Five Truths

Personal Entrepreneur: The Five Founding Truths

Five Philosophy of the Personal Entrepreneur.

Dan Burgin's idea is pretty neat too though.

Good Luck again.

Posted by norman livla at November 29, 2005 05:37 PM

25.: Hi Ramit, I read through some of the suggestions and they're all really great. I thought this might sound less 'lame':

Personal Entrepreneurship: The Secrets To Personal and Professional Success

Posted by Devin Reams at November 29, 2005 09:27 PM

26.: A slight twist...

5 Secrets to Becoming the Best: Personal Entrepreneurship for Fun and Profit

Posted by Jesse Skinner at December 1, 2005 12:25 AM

27.: "How To Stay Poor and Frustrated: 5 Secrets to Help You Avoid the Most Common Obstacles to Personal and Professional Growth"

You might want to shorten the title, but you see where I'm going.

Posted by mike at December 1, 2005 07:26 AM

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