Monthly Archives: February 2008
The Top 21 Celebrity Entrepreneurs
According to YoungEntrepreneur.com readers, here are the Top 21 Celebrity Entrepreneurs: #1 – Richard Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at …
Need SEO Advice? Submit Your Site!
I’ve received a number of comments in previous posts about how to improve your Google rankings through SEO. I wanted to try out a new initiative by opening up the opportunity to submit your site and get SEO advice for …
How To Name Your Company
Think Vitamin recently put out a post about how to name your company. Their top five characteristics for what makes a good name are: 1) It's easy to remember 2) It's easy to spell and requires no explanation 3) It …
Focus On Being Better, Not Bigger – Oprah Winfrey
On January 29, 1954, the woman that would make a meteoric rise to become not only the richest female in America, but also the first ever African-American billionaire was born. "What I know for sure is that if you want …
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching An Idea
This week’s Entrepreneur comes courtesy of John Brennan. John is President of Interpersonal Development, LLC, a training and development firm. Interpersonal Development has provided sales training and coaching to more than 3,000 sales reps from over 100 companies. John shares …
Is Simon Cowell The Top Celebrity Entrepreneur?
We created a poll at YoungEntrepreneur to determine who is the top celebrity entrepreneur. There has been much discussion as to American Idol’s Simon Cowell and whether he deserves to top the list as an entrepreneur. So far the top …
How To Increase Your AdSense Earnings by 41% In 2 Weeks
Two weeks ago I discussed falling AdSense earnings and if it was a trend that webmasters could expect to continue. I reported that while my impressions were up year over year, my click through rate (CTR) had dropped 40% and …
Young and Rich
On August 10th, 2007 we did a profile of Fraser Doherty. At the time he was an 18 year old student a Strathclyde University and entrepreneur. His company, SuperJams, had already a million dollars in sales and he was only …
Get In When There's A Crisis – Advice From the World's Richest Man
He has been called the Warren Buffett of Latin America, but on the most recent Forbes list of the world's richest people, the Mexican born Carlos Slim Helu bumped the great American investor down to third spot. With an estimated …
Write A Business Plan In 10 Seconds
For this edition of Entrepreneur University we turn to small business expert Don Doman. Don is a published author of self-help books on small business. He and his wife own Ide as and Training, which supplies business training products to …
Top 10 Movies For Entrepreneurs
What are the best movies for entrepreneurs to watch to get motivation, ideas, and insights into growing their businesses? Adam Toren, co-founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com gives us his Top 10 list of movies that every young business owner should go out …
500 RSS Subscribers!
Yesterday we crossed the 500 mark in RSS subscribers (502)! Thank you for your continued loyalty in reading the blog. To celebrate and to welcome some of our newer readers I thought I would showcase our top posts of all …
Color Your Call To Action
Ann Smarty, author of SEO Smarty, wrote an interesting post about the colors you use in your call to action on your website. According to Ann, here are how the colors match up: Red: Increases your heart rate by activating …
Do What You Do Best – The Intel Guys
As self-described "accidental entrepreneurs," Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore created what would become by far the foremost semiconductor maker in the world. They didn't set out to create a billion dollar company or to transform an industry, but that is …
How To Do A Media Interview
We started Entrepreneur University in August with Andy Marken and his advice on how to How To Create A Sales Incentive Program. To celebrate our six months of Entrepreneur University I wanted to share more of Andy’s advice with you. …
Has Google AdSense Lost Its Mojo?
Website owners who use Google AdSense as a way to monetize their creations are wondering if AdSense has lost its mojo. Many website and blog owners are reporting significant drops in January and February and popular blogs on SEO are …
The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Starting A Business
What are the common mistakes that new entrepreneurs make and how can you avoid making them yourself? Here is our top 10 list of mistakes people make when starting a business: 1) Not enough money. The most common reason why …
The Buck Stops With You – Rupert Murdoch
He took a small-town newspaper and turned it into a billion dollar operation, gaining control of the information flow to nearly half the world in the process. He is loved by some, hated by many and even feared, but the …
The 6 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
For this week’s edition of Entrepreneur University we tapped Business Coach Melanie Benson Strick. Melanie is the Entrepreneur's Success Coach and she teaches entrepreneurs how to stop feeling overwhelmed so they can create more money and more freedom. Melanie discusses …
Entrepreneur Profile – Artin Afsharjavan
Here is a great young entrepreneur success story that will inspire you to get your own business going! Meet Artin Afsharjavan. When Artin was 13 years old he received $100 as a birthday gift and decided to put it towards …
