Monthly Archives: April 2007
8 Websites to Help You Raise Capital
Young entrepreneurs are always asking me where they can find the capital to launch their businesses or get to the next step. Your best bet, especially early on, is to connect through your network. Somebody knows somebody who knows somebody …
How Old Is A Site? Here's A Cool Tool To Find Out
On Monday I discussed Google’s Domain Age Filter and the importance of having a domain that has been around for a while. Well how do you find out how old a domain is? A cool tool that I like to …
Does The Apprentice Discourage Entrepreneurship?
According to the Telegraph, the hit TV series, The Apprentice, is being blamed for lowering the desire for young people to start their own businesses. The UK version of the show is aired on BBC and has Alan Sugar as …
How To Boost Your Traffic By 35% Overnight
With Google’s most recent update, one of the results has been a great number of pages being dropped to the supplemental index. What this means is that your page will show up after the main results for important keywords. In …
Get Student Interns
One of the things that really helped me get my business going was to bring on foreign language student interns. There are a number of schools in my city where they bring in students from overseas who want to learn …
An Intro To Google Filters – #2 Google Domain Age Filter
Last week I talked about Google’s Sandbox filter as the introduction to a series on the filters that Google users to rank webpages. Today I’m going to discuss the domain age filter. One of Google’s problems is that so many …
Do You Have A Year End Goal?
I run a series of Mastermind Groups for entrepreneurs in the Toronto area and one of the exercises we’ve done with all three of the groups is to set a goal for where the members want to be at the …
A Powerful Way To Get Online Rankings: Sitemaps
Most search engines like Google send crawlers out to your site to see what pages you have created and then proceed to add them to their index. But what if they miss some pages or you make changes and they …
Apprentice Winner Funds Young Startups
Apprentice UK winner Tim Campbell has come up with a new way to help fund young entrepreneurs. He is creating the Bright Ideas Trust in London with the goal of helping young entrepreneurs launch 365 businesses a year. The startups …
Blogger's Choice Awards – April 16
Our blog has pulled ahead of Guy Kawasaki and now has 5 votes for the best business blog according to the Blogger’s Choice Awards. Special thanks to Cdhuckabay for the most recent vote. To nominate this blog, please click here. …
Do book smarts translate to entrepreneurial smarts?
Ted Turner, founder of CNN and owner of the Atalanta Braves, among many other companies, was worth $9 billion at his peak in the mid 1990s. When he was young he went to the military-oriented McCallie School where he did …
An Intro To Google Filters – #1 Google Sandbox
There has been a lot of viewings, links and feedback on the Is Google's New Algorithm Update Impacting Your Site? post that I put up during the week. As far as I can see Google’s updates are still happening as …
Young Entrepreneur Profile – Kailen's Candy Catering
Here’s a great story about somebody who turned a hobby into a small business. Kailyn Cage has always loved candy and earned the nickname the “Candy Girl.” One day Kailyn decided to bring candy to school and sell it. Both …
Is Google's New Algorithm Update Impacting Your Site?
Well Google is updating their algorithm again and it’s wreaking havoc for a number of entrepreneurs who rely on their web rankings to get business. To “improve” their search engine, Google is taking the first set of results for a …
Blogger's Choice Awards
Thanks to Jenluv, one of our YE members, this blog has been nominated for the Blogger’s Choice Awards under the categories of Best Business Blog, Best Marketing Blog, and Best Blog of All Time. The Blogger’s Choice Awards allows blog …
How and When to Ask For Help
I’m a big believer in modeling masters – find someone who has already achieved what you want to do and copy their strategies for your own business. With my first company we thought we needed help to take our company …
5 Steps to Get People to Take You Seriously
A big challenge a lot of young entrepreneurs face is being taken seriously — you're young and don't have the 25 years experience in the industry so why should I trust you? Depending on the product or service you're selling …
Who Links To You?
We all know that building links is an important part of any SEO campaign. One tool that I like to use is wholinks2me.com. It shows you how many links you have from the different search engines, what your Google PR …
My Favorite Blogs
I’m a big fan of reading blogs and get new ideas every day from the ones I read regularly. I thought I would share with you my list of favorite blogs: Internet Marketing – John Chow Internet Marketing – HarpzOn …
Be Prepared to Look for Alternative Financing
I read about Marg Cummins in the The Courier-Mail and wanted to share her story with you. Marg Cummins is a 28-year-old entrepreneur and owner of the West End eatery Wild Pepper in Australia. It has been her lifelong dream …
Young Entrepreneur Profile – EMS Disc Jockey Services
I learned about Eric Smith from The News Sentinel in a recent story. Eric is the owner of EMS Disc Jockey Services, a company he started at the age of 17 and now, on top of a busy high school …
