Monthly Archives: May 2008
The 8 Best Ways To Raise Capital – Entrepreneur Poll Results
After polling our Young Entrepreneur readers, here is our list of the top 8 ways that young entrepreneurs can raise capital for their businesses. I've also included a few of the comments that were left for some of the top …
How To Succeed With Search
I recently had the opportunity to interview Ken Headrick, the Director of Products and Marketing for MSN Canada about how website owners can succeed with search. Ken is one of speakers at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Toronto conference. (sidenote: …
5 Secrets To Getting PR for Your Startup
TechCrunch recently put out their list of the top PR secrets for startup companies. I thought I would share my top 5 from their list: Secret #1 Understand You're Not the Only Story in Town Bloggers and reporters are some …
Don't Do Market Research – Akio Morita (Founder of Sony)
He turned what was once a small bombed-out department store in Tokyo into the world's most successful consumer electronics company. Not only that but Akio Morita, co-founder of the Sony Corporation, was also one of the few entrepreneurs that helped …
4 Ways To Effectively Use LinkedIn To Build Your Business
This week’s Entrepreneur University comes courtesy of Omaro Ailoch. Omaro is a senior software engineer, an internet marketing expert, an entrepreneur and the founder of OC IT Services a highly skilled California based web development, design, and search engine optimization …
Is The United States The Best Place To Be A Young Entrepreneur?
Young entrepreneurs are always saying that they don’t have the resources around them to start a business. A new study out of England suggests, however, that young Americans might be better off than their British counterparts. According to The Prince’s …
Online Advertising Revenues Falling – But It's Good To Be Small
PubMatic recently released its second monthly PubMatic AdPrice Index (view the website). The index indicates that the economic slowdown in the U.S. is beginning to impact the online advertising industry, with overall monetization dropping by 23 percent. The PubMatic AdPrice …
5 Ways To Outsource Your Business
Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly popular trend for entrepreneurs trying to save money and maximize their time spent on high value projects. One of the most popular places to find people to work projects for you is Elance. I’ve personally …
Make Your Money Work For You – Robert Kiyosaki
Due to the popularity of our April post on Robert Kiyosaki (Play To Be First – Robert Kiyosaki), I’ve decided to dedicate another blog post to him. This time the post will cover one of Robert’s most fundamental beliefs – …
How Anger Can Impact Your Sales
Having trouble selling your product or service? This week’s Entrepreneur University comes courtesy of Russ Lombardo, a nationally recognized Sales and CRM consultant, speaker, trainer, author and radio show host. Russ works with business owners, sales executives and professionals who …
Are Friends The Best Source of Capital? – Entrepreneur Poll Update
Over the past two weeks we’ve been asking you what the best ways are for young entrepreneurs to raise money. The goal here is to create a list of suggestions for new and existing entrepreneurs to refer to so they …
SEO Advice – Boycott Software Sweatshops
Two weeks ago I offered free SEO advice to TheLocoMono. I'm going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Raza from Boycott Software Sweatshops. Boycott Software Sweatshops – http://www.softwaresweatshop.com/ Hey Evan, My blog …
The Ten Commandments of Sales
I came across a picture of this t-shirt and had to share it with you! In case you can’t read the design it says: Ten Commandments of Sales: 1) Never take no for an answer 2) Give value first 3) …
Don't Try To Be Perfect – Anthony Robbins
"Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want," says Tony Robbins. For the past 15 years, Robbins has been doing exactly that. As one of …
How To Create A Budget
It is time to get into the nuts and bolts of running a business. This week's Entrepreneur University comes courtesy of Mark Gwilliam. Mark uses his international experience to coach small business owners on how to run successful businesses. Mark …
SCORE Launches Young Entrepreneur Resources?
SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is a nonprofit association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. In a recent announcement, SCORE has created a website specifically for young entrepreneurs. The nonprofit organization, …
AdSense Problems? Check Google's New Known Issues Page
I woke up a couple of days ago and checked my AdSense stats as a part of my regular morning routine. I was shocked to find out that my earnings for the day so far were less than 10% of …
What Top Tech CEOs Are Making
Network World put out a list of what the top CEOs from the technology world are making. Here is how some of the top execs lined up by their 2007 compensation: Steve Jobs, Apple, $1 Eric Schmidt, Google, $480,561 Steve …
Be Yourself – Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM
In his youth, Tom Watson was anything but the picture of success he would later come to be. He was asthmatic, shy and had few friends. But, this loner would soon become one of the greatest and richest salesmen in …
What's The Best Way To Raise Money – Entrepreneur Poll
After the success of our last poll on The Top 20 Startup Mistakes that entrepreneurs make, we’re ready to get our new poll started! This time I want to talk about raising money. It’s been said that there is no …
SEO Advice – TheLocoMono
Two weeks ago I offered free SEO advice to Supper Thyme USA. I'm going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Mark from TheLocoMono. TheLocoMono – http://thelocomonowebsite.com I would like to take you …
