Monthly Archives: November 2007
YE In The News
We’ve added a new section to the blog called YE in The News. The point of the new section is to show off some of the many interviews that Young Entrepreneur founders Adam and Matthew Toren and their advice for …
The Foolproof Way To Finding The Best Keywords For Your Site
I gave a seminar tonight called SEO for Africa that looked at Picking The Right Keywords & 15 Simple Techniques You Can Use To Get On Page 1. It was a great event and we also raised some money for …
Getting Venture Capital (1 of 5) – Getting Ready
Venture Capital – Stages Of Financing The first stage of financing is to raise money from personal savings, credit cards, friends, and family. It is sometimes known as "golf-course preferred" when you ask people to invest in your company after …
Is What You're Doing More Important Than Sleep? – Modeling Masters
"I've always felt that life should be an adventure," says home-style guru and multi-millionaire Martha Stewart. "Every day should be important." Stewart's adventures began on August 3, 1941 when she was born into the industrial heartland of Jersey City, New …
Young Entrepreneurs Prefer Email
According to a new survey by Vodafone, today’s young entrepreneurs prefer using email instead of the phone to conduct the majority of their business. It was found that when going after clients the rate of phone use drops by 30% …
My Favorite Top 50 Marketing Blogs
After scouring the Internet for informative blogs to help entrepreneurs with their marketing efforts I put together our list of the Top 50 Marketing Blogs To Watch In 2008. Here they are: Search Marketing Blogs 1) Search Engine Land URL: …
6 Ways To Be More Productive And Get More Done
I had a meeting today with a potential client who asked me why I didn’t have my phone number on my website. I told him it was because we were getting too many inquiries and it was making us unproductive. …
Do What You Love And The Money Will Follow – Dana White
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) used to be nothing more than an underground fighting league, and one which was scarcely accepted in the U.S. That was, until Dana White came along. White transformed the UFC into one of the most …
Re-Launched YoungEntrepreneur.com Meets Growing Demand
Earlier this month I mentioned that the Young Entrepreneur forums were getting a new look and I highlighted some of the new features. Now here is the official press release with all the details! Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and kicking …
Entrepreneur Profile – Boobie Bib
Antonette Hoffman-Robinson is the 23 year old founder of Boobie Bib, a new product for nursing mothers. Antonette is a new mother who found herself at home with extra time on her hands. While reading through magazines she learned about …
How Does Your Blog Compare?
You work hard on your blog researching and posting every day but how does it compare to others in your industry? You can check it out at Blog Juice. The Blog Juice calculator is a free tool that will provide …
Who Holds You Accountable?
One of the things I’ve found with many startup entrepreneurs is that they get very excited about new ideas and don’t have the patience to actually follow through on the execution part of it. Most entrepreneurs have a million business …
MySpace's Tom Anderson
"It sounds crazy," says Chris DeWolfe, "but even in the first plan that I wrote up, I mentioned AOL, Yahoo! and Hotmail, knowing we would be big. And it's crazy to think that it happened." Together, Chris DeWolfe and Tom …
Entrepreneur Profile – Bryan Sims
How much are you willing to give up to launch your business? Would you say no to a full college scholarship and drop out of university? That is exactly what Bryan Sims, CEO of Brass Magazine did. Bryan was recently …
Links To Young Entrepreneur
Adding on to my post from earlier today I thought it would be useful to look at some of the interesting links that point to our favorite site, YoungEntrepreneur.com. While I don’t have access to the Google webmaster tools account …
How I Got 15,937 Links To My Site
According to my Google Webmaster Central Tools I have a total of 15,937 links to my site. 4,523 of them go to my homepage while the remaining 11,414 go to various pages on my site. My last sitemap indicated that …
Is A Business Plan A Waste Of Time? – Part 1
According to various government statistics, up to 80% of businesses will fail within their first five years of operation. That number is staggering to me. At the same time, when I look at most business owners, most of them do …
Put Your Business Blinders On
"I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding," says George Lucas. Lucas' struggle first began on May 14, 1944 when he was born in the relatively humdrum city of Modesto, California to parents George Walton …
New Look For Young Entrepreneur Forum!
Brothers, Matthew Toren & Adam Toren 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 through starting, managing and growing successful business ventures so …
My Favorite SEO Blogs
Last week I began a monthly seminar for entrepreneurs who wanted to improve their search engine rankings. We called it SEO for Africa and all the proceeds raised went to support African entrepreneurs who were in need of funds to …
