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I need your help to pick a good title

27 comments — written on November 29th, 2005

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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  1. 1
    November 29, 2005

    Ye

    Plastic Bags and Secrets

  2. 2
    November 29, 2005

    Steve

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

    or

    Personal Entrepreneurship: 5 secrets to becoming a top competitor.

  3. 3
    November 29, 2005

    norman livla

    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.

  4. 4
    November 29, 2005

    Craig

    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.

  5. 5
    November 29, 2005

    norman livla

    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

  6. 6
    November 29, 2005

    brandon

    How about:

    Mastering Personal Entrepreneurship: The 5 steps you need to succeed

    or

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

  7. 7
    November 29, 2005

    Steven Koszis

    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.

  8. 8
    November 29, 2005

    Ramit Sethi

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

  9. 9
    November 29, 2005

    David Johnston

    Don’t “play” the game…change it!

  10. 10
    November 29, 2005

    Ian Ybarra

    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

  11. 11
    November 29, 2005

    noah

    the 5 secrets i learned from noah kagan:)

  12. 12
    November 29, 2005

    Jennifer

    How the lack of a title won’t cripple my speech.

  13. 13
    November 29, 2005

    RYAN BATTLES

    5 RULES OF PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURSH

  14. 14
    November 29, 2005

    Russ Thornton

    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

  15. 15
    November 29, 2005

    Jacobo

    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.

  16. 16
    November 29, 2005

    Solomon Folks

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

  17. 17
    November 29, 2005

    DUST!N

    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

  18. 18
    November 29, 2005

    Jennie

    Stop sabataging your success: Five Tools for Personal Entrepreneurship

  19. 19
    November 29, 2005

    jeff

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

  20. 20
    November 29, 2005

    norman

    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.

  21. 21
    November 29, 2005

    Mr. Anonymous

    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

  22. 22
    November 29, 2005

    regular_reader

    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

  23. 23
    November 29, 2005

    Daniel Burgin

    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.

  24. 24
    November 29, 2005

    norman livla

    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.

  25. 25
    November 29, 2005

    Devin Reams

    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

  26. 26
    December 1, 2005

    Jesse Skinner

    A slight twist…

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

  27. 27
    December 1, 2005

    mike

    “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.

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