Monthly Archives: April 2008
10 Things You Should Know When Marketing Your Business
ConversationMarketing.com recently put together a list of the 38 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started In Marketing. Here are the author’s top 10 things you should know: 1) No one has a clue how to market anything. We …
Pursue Your Passion – Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay)
"I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job," recalls Pierre Omidyar. An unexpected success, that side hobby has today become the world's largest personal online trading community. The website hosts nearly …
Increase Your Closing Rate
For this week’s Entrepreneur University we turn to Virden J. Thornton. Virden is the founder and President of The $elling Edge®, Inc. a 23 year old firm specializing in sales, customer relations, personal coaching and management training and development. Clients …
The Top 20 Startup Mistakes – Entrepreneur Poll Results
After polling our Young Entrepreneur readers, here is our list of the top 20 mistakes that startups make when creating a new business. I’ve also included a few of the comments that were left for some of the top points. …
Google Ad Manager Beta
If you run advertising on your website then you should get excited about Google Ad Manager. It’s a new service that Google has created to help web publishers manage their ad inventory and optimize it so that you make the …
The Worst Business Decision Ever Made
Neatorama recently came up with their list of the worst business decisions ever made. At the top of their list was the decision by Decca Records not to sign The Beatles. Here is the story: Executives: Mike Smith and Dick …
Think Big – Donald Trump
Donald Trump ranked #4 on our list of The Top 21 Celebrity Entrepreneurs. "Get in, get it done, get it done right, and get out," Trump once said. Indeed, this has been his motto from his earliest days assisting his …
7 Success Tips for Entrepreneurs
For this edition of Entrepreneur University I turned to productivity coach Lorraine Pirihi. Lorraine is the Productivity Queen and she helps entrepreneurs get more time, make more money, and have a life in your small business.Lorraine offers her 7 tips …
Selling Your Products Online – Young Entrepreneur Profile
I learned about Jenna Lou Dauer through Rochester’s Post-Bulletin. Jenna was a high school student who started a business out of her home because she was bored and was looking for something to do. “I was in high school and …
SEO Advice – Supper Thyme USA
Last week I offered free SEO advice for the Stratford Heights Church of God. I'm going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Keri from Supper Thyme USA. Supper Thyme USA – http://www.supperthymeusa.com …
My 3 Favorite Firefox Shortcuts
Depending on who you listen to, Firefox is closing in on 20% market share in the browser wars. A recent report from Janco showed that Firefox has 19.95% of the market while Internet Explorer has 60%. Netscape has 9.68% to …
One Of My Favorite Entrepreneur Stories – Amadeo Peter Giannini
Home mortgages, auto loans, installment credit — they may be taken for granted today, but before this son of Italian immigrants came along, such things didn't exist. Amadeo Peter Giannini — A.P. to his friends — revolutionized the banking world …
6 Ways To Improve Your Email
For this edition of Entrepreneur University I turned to strategic planning consultant Glenn Ebersole. Glenn runs The Renaissance Group, a multi-disciplinary and strategic thinking consultancy firm. They offer a unique approach to a wide range of strategic planning, management, marketing, …
The Top Start-Up Mistakes – Entrepreneur Poll Update
We’ve started collecting a list of the top mistakes that start-up entrepreneurs make so that you can hopefully avoid making them yourself. To cast your vote and add to the list you can check out the forum post we created …
SEO Advice – Stratford Heights Church of God
Last week I offered free SEO advice for Publiside. I'm going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Brian from the Stratford Heights Church of God. Stratford Heights Church of God – http://www.shcog.com …
The World's Top 50 Blogs
In a move to try and become a relevant online publication Time Magazine put out a list of the top 50 blogs that you can’t live without. Here is how they rank 5 of the blogs: The Huffington Post: All …
Go That Extra Mile – Mary Kay Ash
"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed," Mary Kay Ash once said. "They never dare to try." Ash was not one of those people. Raised in a time when few women were in business, let alone successful …
3 Easy Examples Of How To Joint Venture
For this edition of Entrepreneur University I turned to the joint venture expert, Robin Elliott. For more than 19 years Robin has worked with small business owners helping them attain success through joint ventures. You can learn more about him …
Young Entrepreneur Challenge!
We have been preparing some great questions for an ongoing series of Entrepreneurial interviews with some up and coming entrepreneurs and also some very successful entrepreneurs. On a recent brainstorm with my brother Matthew he asked me: Are you going …
14 Summer Business Ideas
Thinking of starting a business this summer to earn some extra cash? Here are 14 ideas for businesses you can set up and run over the summer months. 1) Lawn Care / Landscaping It’s a perfect seasonal business that can …
SEO Advice – Publiside
Last week I offered free SEO advice for Radical Notion. I'm going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Gail from Publiside. Publiside – http://www.publiside.com Hi Evan – My site is www.publiside.com; would …
April Fools Pranks
Are you a fan of April Fools Day Pranks? Every year Google launches a new hoax to get people talking. This year was Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars that will be created via a partnership between …
Play To Be First – Robert Kiyosaki
"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way," says Robert Kiyosaki. With 18 books under his belt, and 26 million copies sold …
