Monthly Archives: July 2007
Are You Ready To Jump Off The Cliff?
Deciding to start a business is a lot like bungee jumping. You need to leap off the cliff and have faith that the cord will hold you. Entrepreneurship and risk taking come hand in hand – to succeed you must …
Blogger's Choice Awards – Updated Badges!
The Blogger’s Choice Awards is compiling a list of the top blogs that are having an influence on the blogosphere. The winners are determined by blog readers when they vote for their favorite blogs. To make it easier to vote …
Our Top Entrepreneurial Posts
To celebrate hitting the century mark in RSS subscribers I wanted to share some of the posts that helped get us here. After 173 posts, here is a list of some of the ones which have sparked conversation and interest …
100 Readers And Counting!
I logged in today to see that we had reached 101 regular subscribers through our Feedburner RSS feed. Thank you for your continued support! Tomorrow I will take a look at some of our most popular posts that helped build …
How To Get Your Business Ready To Sell
The dream of most entrepreneurs is to build a company and then sell it for a huge profit to a strategic buyer. We read about the YouTubes of the world and other acquisitions that lead many people to think they …
Entrepreneurship Is About Survival
Most entrepreneurs who start a business will fail. The statistics vary but as many as 80% of people who start a business today will no longer have their company in 5 years. That is a pretty big failure rate. According …
Please Vote For Us!
If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you will have seen one of these badges in the middle column. These are the Blogger’s choice awards which look at the top blogs for a number of different categories. …
Entrepreneur Profile – Toronto Dance Salsa
Here’s a great success story about a young Torontonian entrepreneur. Sharon Galor, President of Toronto Dance Salsa, is the owner of Canada’s largest salsa dance school. With over 3,000 students attending salsa classes at her school annually, this young entrepreneur …
Should You Use PPC Or SEO – Part 2
Last week I discussed the pros and cons of using Pay-Per-Click for your online marketing. Today I wanted to conclude the two-part series by taking a closer look at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and seeing if it is the right …
3 Ways To Make Money Online By Being The Expert
I had a conversation today with one of my Mastermind Group members about making money online and thought I would share some of my suggestions. My entrepreneur friend is a recognized authority in his field but he is constantly trading …
Some Link Love For Our Supporters
Having been used to the Blogger platform, I moved over to WordPress for the YoungEntrepreneur.com blog and love it! One of my favorite functions is the incoming links feature. It is automatically part of the template as you log into …
Is Facebook A Viable Way To Promote Your Business?
With over 27 million active members, 100,000 new members coming online every day, and over 40 billion monthly page views, Facebook has become the world’s largest social networking website and all signs point to its domination continuing. The big question …
Stop Wasting Time And Start Doing Something!
I run a series of Mastermind Groups for Toronto entrepreneurs. We meet monthly to discuss our businesses and solve the challenges we are currently facing – from financing to marketing to human resources. I am a big believer in pulling …
Should You Use PPC Or SEO?
A common question I get asked by entrepreneurs is about Pay-Per-Click (PPC) versus search engine optimization (SEO). Which is better? What are the pros and cons? Which is best for my website? To help you make up your mind, today …
How to Motivate and Emplower Employees
One of the biggest thrills and challenges of running and growing a business is bringing on employees. Whenever I find myself too bogged down with a particular, repetitive task, I first try to automate it and then give it to …
What Motivates You?
One of our Young Entrepreneur forum members, usakos, asked what motivates entrepreneurs in a recent forum post. It is an interesting question to ask because being an entrepreneur is one of the most challenging and demanding careers out there. Especially …
How Do You Know If Google Penalized You? – Part 3
In my last two posts on Google penalties I discussed how to know if you have been banned and how to tell if you have suffered a major penalty. Today, in my last post in this series, I want to …
Do You Have A Million Dollar Idea?
I came across a press release by a young British entrepreneur who is trying to build a million dollar business while being confined to his bed. Richard Stratton worked odd jobs to save money to start his own business. His …
How Do You Know If Google Penalized You? – Part 2
On Friday I discussed how you can tell if Google has banned your site and what you have to do to get back into the index. It is a fairly cut and try penalty – either you are in the …
