Monthly Archives: October 2007
Are You Really Ready To Grow Your Company?
My business currently has eight key members in it, including myself. Two of them has been assigned functions and decision making power. They can run their own show and get a piece of the action as an incentive to perform. …
Be The First To Challenge Standard Beliefs
"Being first is more important to me," says Ellison. "I have so much more money. Whatever money is, it’s just a method of keeping score now. I mean I certainly don’t need more money." He is the CEO of the …
Entrepreneur Profile – Louis Barnett
Louis Barnett is a 15 year old British entrepreneur making waves in the chocolate industry. He has a great story of turning negatives into positives and overcoming obstacles to achieving success. When Louis was 11 years old he was diagnosed …
An Intro To Google Filters – #10 False Use Of The Robots.txt File
The robots.txt file is not a typical Google filter but it can have a dramatic impact on how search engines see your website. Most search engines try to respect the wishes of websites owners. They want to know which pages …
Young Entrepreneur on Entrepreneur-Interviews.com
Cristian Dorobantescu is a part time entrepreneur from Eastern Europe that started blogging back in 2005, with his Small Business Entrepreneur blog. He enjoys writing about real life Entrepreneurship experiences, small businesses and knowledge resources for any entrepreneur wanna be. …
Have You Found Your Calling?
He grew up in rural Nova Scotia in a house without plumbing and a wood stove for heating. Today, he has eight cars, owns a $60 million golf club resort, and has so much money he has even offered to …
Entrepreneur Profile – Phanta Media
Phanta Media is a Markham, Ontario based, fully integrated video production company, who specializes in effective video based communications. The company is run by Mark Drager, a 24 year old new entrepreneur who is married and has a one year …
How To Get A New Website Ranked
New websites have the hardest time getting indexed by Google because they are an unknown quantity. So many spam websites are created every day that it is difficult for Google and the other search engines to determine who is the …
Taking Time Off
How much time off do you take off during the week? Most entrepreneurs run their business 24/7. In the early days of building a company you need to put in the long hours to get the business off the ground. …
Find Something Nobody Else Is Selling
She never wanted to run her own business; she just wanted to be the best mom she knew how to be. But today, what began as a single children's educational video that she filmed in her basement with a friend's …
Entrepreneur Profile – Whateverlife.com
Ashley Qualls is a 17 year old entrepreneur behind Whateverlife.com. She runs the website from her basement in her Southgate, Michigan home and is closing in on 2.5 million visitors per month. Last year, her business generated $1 million in …
An Intro To Google Filters – #9 The Duplicate Content Filter
In my continuing series on the filters Google uses to evaluate a website I wanted to discuss the Duplicate Content Filter. How It Works In an attempt to make the search results more valuable to its users, Google implemented the …
Should I Outsource My Sales Function?
Last month my website passed 200,000 monthly visitors and, as a result, we have started receiving an increasing amount of interest from advertisers wanting to reach the target audience on my site. We’ve landed a deal with Bell Canada, one …
Don't Let Anybody Get In Your Way
Every entrepreneur will face challenges getting a business off the ground. One of the biggest barriers to break through is getting past all the people who don’t believe in you and who try to get in your way. Today I …
We Hit 200!
A look over to our Feedburner counter today reveals that we’ve hit the 200 subscriber mark! Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the blog and for contributing your comments. I started writing the Young Entrepreneur blog …
Is Google Updating PageRank?
Google has traditionally updated its famous PageRank system once per quarter. The search engine claims that it is constantly updating PageRank but that the toolbar which gets displayed to the public only gets updated once per quarter. There is a …
Firing Employees
One of the most difficult parts of running a growing business is having to let people go. You would like to think that everyone who joins your team will be perfect fits and will work their heart outs for you. …
Make Your Business Run Without You
He may be known in the UK for his Michelin star-rated restaurants, but Gordon Ramsay is better known the world over for being the confrontational and brash host on the television shows "Hell's Kitchen," and "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares." Those …
