Monthly Archives: August 2007
Young Entrepreneurs Face Bigger Challenges
The Wall Street Journal put out a story recently on how young entrepreneurs face greater challenges than their older counterparts when they are starting a new business. The article mentions that with the success of YouTube and other dot come …
How Important Is It To Be On Google's First Page?
You hear a lot about the importance of optimizing your website so you can drive more traffic from Google and the other search engines – but how important is it to be on the first page versus the other pages? …
A Way For Bloggers To Make Money That Nobody Is Talking About
I had a meeting today with a company called iCopyright (I actually met with their Canadian counterpart). They opened up an interesting opportunity to me that I had previously not seriously considered for my website: sell the temporary rights for …
Don't Be Afraid To Make Mistakes
Ingvar Kamprad is the founder of IKEA and is one of the top five richest people in the world. IKEA’s annual revenues are now in excess of $10 billion and, next to the Bible, the annual IKEA catalogue is the …
Should Young Entrepreneur Get A Facebook Group?
I am continually fascinated with Facebook and am still trying to figure out an effective way to promote a business that is not event-based through the system. I have tried posting links to my profile, creating items in the Marketplace, …
Why Google?
I have had a few people writing in asking why I spend so much time on strategies for ranking in Google versus the other search engines like Yahoo and MSN. The simple fact is, more people use Google so if …
How To Get Good PR – Use PR Leads
I have always been a big fan of using the media to help drive awareness about my company and, ultimately, sales. The logic is simple: most entrepreneurs do not have a massive advertising budget to go out and purchase ad …
How To Find Your Passion
Last week I discussed Richard Branson’s advice to start a business because you love it, not just because you want to make money. Today I wanted to offer some ways you can search to find what your passion is and …
Where I focus my time
Last week I met with my Mastermind group and made the decision to offload even more of the responsibilities that I currently shoulder to run my business. With the launch of three major new initiatives my time is getting stretched …
Lessons From Richard Branson – Part 5 – Create A Brand
The last post in our Lessons From Richard Branson is about creating a brand. Branson might have started with only one business but he has built one of the world’s largest and most recognized brands by partnering with other individuals …
Lessons From Richard Branson – Part 4 – Build A Solid Team
Part 4 of our Lessons From Richard Branson series looks at building a team and surrounding yourself with people who can help take your company to the next level. “As much as you need a strong personality to build a …
Lessons From Richard Branson – Part 3 – Focus On The Business
Part 3 of our Lessons From Richard Branson looks at being a businessperson vs. being an inventor / creator I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, …
Lessons From Richard Branson – Part 2 – Don't Do It For The Money
Part 2 of our Lessons From Richard Branson series looks at knowing why you are starting a business in the first place – is it because you are passionate about your ideas or are you just trying to make a …
Lessons From Richard Branson – Part 1 – How to Identify an Opportunity
In a slight change from my normal routine of posting and to shake things up for our summertime readers I thought it would be fun to learn from the successes of one of the world’s most well known entrepreneurs – …
Entrepreneur Profile – Fraser Doherty
Here is a great story about a young entrepreneur out of Scotland named Fraser Doherty. Fraser is an 18 year old student at Strathclyde University and his company, SuperJams, is already a million dollar business. With his recent success, Fraser …
An Intro To Google Filters – #8 The Overoptimization Filter
It has been a while since my last post on Google Filters and I wanted to continue the series today by discussing the Overoptimization Filter. How It Works Google frowns upon website owners who try to trick their algorithms by …
A Smart Way To Start A Business
This afternoon I met with a business owner who was interested in joining one of my Mastermind Groups. He is in the human resources industry and might be a little too early stage for my groups but he has an …
Are You Holding Your Company Back?
Beauty tycoon Estee Lauder had a modest upbringing in Queen’s, New York with eight brothers and sisters. She would go on to found and build the company that bears her name and become an icon of the fashion industry. When …
SEO Help – Readers Write – Part 2
Following up on yesterday’s post, here are my suggestions for Taz on what he can do to get his website, http://www.beardcareproducts.com, ranked once again in Google: 1) Make sure you have not been sandboxed It was a great idea to …
SEO Help – Readers Write
This week one of our readers, Taz, the 25 year old owner of http://www.beardcareproducts.com, wrote in looking for help with his website rankings: Hi Evan, I’m glad I found your site…we started an online business called www.beardcareproducts.com and were ranking …
3 Ways To Get Free Office Space
I have always found there to be great benefits to going to an office every day to work. An office makes it easier to separate our business from personal lives and adds some regularity to what can be a chaotic …
