Monthly Archives: June 2007
Review Our Blog – #10 – Rick Fourie
Our 10th Review Our Blog is by Rick Fourie from Young Millionaires. He recently posted a review of the YE blog that you can visit here: Other Young Millionaires Young Millionaires was birthed out of a passion Rick has to …
How Do You Know If Google Penalized You? – Part 1
A frequent question I get asked is about Google banning websites. How do you know if your recent drop in rankings is because of a new algorithm update or because Google penalized your site? This will be the first of …
Writing Press Releases For Your Business – Part 2
On Monday I wrote about the benefits of using press releases to help increase your company’s awareness and get more customers. Journalists are always looking for new and interesting stories to write about – it is their job. If you …
25 Ways To Fund Your Business
One of our blog readers, Rich McIver, put me on to a post about 25 Alternatives To Venture Capital. Venture capital is not only one of the most difficult types of investment to get for a business, it is not …
Entrepreneur Profile – LT's Recycling Service
I learned about 23 year old Lindsay Terry from JuneauEmpire. In October of last year Lindsay thought about creating his own company to haul away the recyclables of the local businesses in his area. There were other companies that took …
Writing Press Releases For Your Business – Part 1
I have always been a big fan of using press releases and leveraging the media to help grow your business. If you are bootstrapping and do not have a lot of startup capital the media can be your best friend. …
Review Our Blog – #10 – David de Souza
Our 10th Review Our Blog is by David de Souza from Tax Fix. The review he posted of our blog can be found here: YoungEntrepreneur.com – Blog Review. Tax Fix / Tax Back is a blog that provides information about …
Entrepreneur Profile – Showroom Shine Express Detailing
I learned about Sylvester Chisom and Arthur Shivers from the Northwest County Journal. Friends since grade seven they came up with the idea for Showroom Shine Express Detailing while working together at a car wash company. “We noticed that people …
Want To Boost Morale? Try Food!
A while back I read a blogger’s suggestion on bootstrapping ways to boost morale in your company. He said that since he did not have much money at the start he motivated his team by bringing food in. On the …
Young Entrepreneurship A Viable Employment Option
Young people have typically had a hard time in the workforce. Youth unemployment has usually been in the double digits almost everywhere in the world as employers favor workers with more experience. In industrialized economies the youth unemployment rate is …
YE Founders Release New CD Single
For those of you not yet familiar with YE Founders Adam and Matthew Toren, they have truly been ‘serial entrepreneurs’ since their early teens. They wanted to assist other fellow entrepreneurial enthusiasts with their businesses and try and guide them …
Entrepreneur Profile – Regina's Assiniboia Art Gallery
This is a great story I found in the Reader-Post about a Canadian entrepreneur named Mary Ready Weimer. When Mary Ready Weimer was 22 years old she started her own business by buying an art gallery. Regina’s Assiniboia Art Gallery …
How New Yorkers Make Money
A friend of mine, Jesse, who is one of the most creative people I know and is always coming up with new, innovative ideas put me onto this story. It’s from New York Magazine and looks at how New Yorkers …
How To Get Rich
How is that for a title to get your attention? CNNMoney recently put out a series of 8 profiles that look at successful entrepreneurs who have built up their companies despite not having access to major financial backing. It goes …
An Intro To Google Filters – #7 The Too Many Pages At Once Filter
In my continuing series on Google Filters, today I am going to discuss the Too Many Pages At Once Filter. How It Works Google likes to see that your webpage is growing consistently and over time. They like up to …
How To Get More Done In Your Day
Feeling stressed out? As entrepreneurs we never seem to have enough time in the day to get everything done. We typically take on many of the roles in the company from the janitor up to the CEO and work ourselves …
Young Millionaires
Hot of the heels of this weekend’s post on the Top European Young Entrepreneurs of 2007 comes a report from the Independent that there are over 900 Britons between the ages of 17 and 34 who have a net worth …
Top European Young Entrepreneurs of 2007
BusinessWeek put out a list this week of their top European Young Entrepreneurs for 2007. They looked at business owners who were under 25 years old, were making an impact, and were inspiring others to do so as well. Most …
Are North American Entrepreneurs Too Cocky?
I came across an interesting article recently that discussed the findings of a new report on entrepreneurship. Researchers from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands looked at entrepreneurs who were starting a business and asked them how confident they …
Matt Cutts on Google's Algorithms
For those of you who do not know who Matt Cutts is, he is the head of Google’s Webspam team. He helps determine what gets into Google’s search results and what gets left out. He runs the popular Matt Cutts …
Entrepreneur Profile – Johnny Cupcakes
At the age of 24, Johnny “Cupcakes” Earl is running one of the most unique marketing initiatives that I have ever seen. He named his company Johnny Cupcakes, has his retail store set up like a bakery, and dresses his …
3 Free Web Tools I Can't Live Without
Making a living online can be a difficult and time consuming process. Fortunately there are many free tools that website owners can use to help achieve success. Here are 3 of the tools that I use on a regular basis: …
Entrepreneur Profile – Dutch's Trading Post
What would you do if you were 20 years old and just received one million dollars? If you are Jake Lapin, you buy a hunting and fishing shop and become an entrepreneur. Jake used to work at the Sargento cheese …
