Young Guns, Robert Tuchman: Author Guest Post

Today’s graduates face the toughest job market in 10 years. Their peers only a few years older, who just started their careers, are now back on the job hunt with few prospects. There is a highly competitive pool of applicants for companies that aren’t hiring. What options do these bright, young, ambitious people have? To wait for the economy to recover and recruiters to come knocking? Or to take that ambition and passion and turn it into something tangible? Now is the time to become an entrepreneur—take that drive and start realizing your dreams.

In Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own, Robert Tuchman shows professionals that they can start and succeed in their own business with examples of many entrepreneurs under the age of 35. There is no better time to take a chance than when you’re youthful, bold and have very little to lose—and he knows from experience.

Young Guns is a book for young entrepreneurs. It includes business advice, graduation advice, networking hints and information on starting a company. Everything a young entrepreneur needs to know is in this book. - FROM AUTHOR SITE

AUTHOR GUEST POST…How to Handle Pressure: Writing Under Deadlines
Whether you are a journalist for The Daily News or a copywriter for an ad agency, even a college student guzzling coffee and red bulls the night before your term paper is due, as a writer we have all been under pressure at some point.  Handling pressure to meet a deadline can be difficult especially if is needed in the next hour or by the end of the day. There are some key things to remember as you write under the pressure of the clock ticking.

The first and most important things to remember are to take a few deep breaths and relax. Chances are if you have been given a quick and abrupt deadline your boss, editor, or publisher even college professor trusts you enough that it will be efficient, detailed piece of writing. So just take a few minutes to settle in and begin writing, your nerves can be used as an advantage.

Next, you should review what you know and conduct some research. Planning is everything, it has been done but writing a term paper the night before its due is a difficult task if you don’t have any direction.  When you find your direction point, continue with at least three sub-topics that relate to the direction you want the piece of writing to take. Do some brainstorming, research, generate quotes from reliable sources or databases and your writing will unfold and the pressure you felt before will be applied to rapid typing and words becoming sentences and paragraphs in front of you.

Take another second to breathe, your almost there. Conducting and gathering research is nearly as important as knowing your audience. Listen to your professor during class if he or she refers to a Kennedy historian that has a great book surrounding the assassination of JFK, it might be in your best interest to visit the library and skim a few chapters of that book. If you are writing to a predominantly liberal driven magazine it might be in your best interest to think about the vocabulary variety in your piece.

Finally, use your time wisely. Remember now the clock is ticking. Don’t waste time focusing on what you are going to eat on your lunch break or what the guy in front of you is working in, stick to the task at hand and you will be able to complete it. Another few key things to keep in mind, stay well hydrated, eat a good breakfast, and if you are still having a difficult time with writing under pressure and losing focus try to take a yoga class, it helps to relax not only your muscles but clear your mind so you can focus on one thing at a time. Right now it’s that deadline, and time is running out.

Robert Tuchman
www.pcevents.com
www.premieresports.com
My monthly column in Incentive Magazine

ABOUT THE AUTHOR…Robert Tuchman started his own company as a young gun at the age of 24 and shows professionals that there is no better time to take a chance at starting a business than when you’re youthful, bold and have little to lose in YOUNG GUNS: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own (AMACOM 2009).

When he graduated from college, Tuchman was quickly forced to abandon his dream of becoming a sports reporter. Applications to television stations and newspapers across the country were ignored and eventually he accepted a position as an investment advisor at Lehman Brothers in New York, followed by a stint Paine Webber.

Still desperately wanting to break into the sports industry, he joined Sports Profiles after reading about them in Entrepreneur, working out of his apartment selling sports magazine advertisements. Quickly realizing that everyone to whom he sold ads wanted the perks (tickets to games or luxury trips to events) more than the ads, he decided to start a business that catered to this niche called Tuchman Sports Enterprises (TSE).

Within two years of working out of that tiny one-bedroom Upper East Side apartment, with one phone and a fax machine, his company was named to the annual Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest growing privately held companies and as one of the top 100 promotion agencies by Promo Magazine. He started TSE with no money and no investors and ended up selling it for millions of dollars to Premiere Global Sports. Last year TSE, now the Corporate Events division of Premiere Global Sports, earned over $70 million dollars in sales. Robert Tuchman currently serves as President of that division, still guiding his company in its new form.

He writes a monthly column for Incentive magazine, an industry magazine for incentive and meeting planners. He is also the author of The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live, a sports travel book. His articles have appeared in ESPN.com and Sports Business Journal.

A favorite commentator on the sports industry, you may have seen him recently discussing Michael Phelps on “Anderson Cooper 360” or the “CBS Morning News.” A frequent guest on “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” he has also appeared on CNN, BET, and has been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Entrepreneur. – FROM AMACOM BOOKS SITE