Monthly Archives: February 2009
New Young Entrepreneur Blog Design Tomorrow!
Usually on Thursdays I post about Internet marketing and give search engine optimization advice to our Young Entrepreneur blog readers. Today I’m excited to talk about a new layout for our own blog that will be launched tomorrow! Young Entrepreneur …
Yanik Silver Interview – Inernet Entrepreneur
Yanik Silver and Monster Garage’s Jesse James in front of Jesse’s muddy dune buggy during a 6 day ‘business trip’ to the Baja in Mexico. Yanik brought in Jesse to teach CEOs and other members of Maverick Business Adventures. YE …
Working For Somebody Else Never Amounted To Anything – Wayne Huizenga
He is the only person in history to build three Fortune 1000 companies. He is the only person to have developed six NYSE-listed companies. And, he is the only person to ever own three professional sports teams in a single …
The Top 10 Reasons To Start An Online Business Today – Entrepreneur University
For this week's Entrepreneur University we turn to Cynthia Minnaar. We last featured Cynthia in March of 2008 when she shared her advice on starting up while being on a budget (Starting An Online Business on a Shoestring Budget – …
SEO Advice – FreshPow!
It's time for another SEO Advice post! Last month, I offered free SEO advice to CADrite. I'm going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader Ariane from FreshPow!. Ariane – http://www.freshpow.ca Hi Evan, …
Seth Godin Interview
This post comes thanks to YE co-founder Adam Toren. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to interview Seth Godin. SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of ten books that have been …
Be True To Who You Are – Rachael Ray
"My life has been a total accident — a very happy wonderful accident that I didn't and couldn't have planned." The fact that Rachael Ray did not know where she was going makes where she wound up today all the …
Recession Strategies: Be An Effective Negotiator
Recently, Jason Cohen commented in an Entrepreneur University post about the important of negotiating everything in order to get a better deal from suppliers during the recession. Therefore in response, this week's Entrepreneur University comes thanks to Colly Graham. Colly …
How Much Are 5,000 Visitors Worth?
For this week’s Internet Marketing post I decided to answer the question of one of our blog readers, Tauya from LocalAfro. Here is Tauya’s question: Hello, First of all, thank you very much for all your helpful and informative blog …
11 Things To Know Before Hiring A Friend or Family Member
In my post last week on 20 Ways To Bootstrap Your Business, my #19 suggestion to bootstrap your business was to Hire Friends / Family. A couple of you commented that hiring friends and family was not a great way …
How to Sell Anybody Anything in Five Minutes or Less – John Johnson
I last covered John Johnson as part of a Black Entrepreneur series that I ran in December of 2007 (Black Entrepreneur Series (2 of 5) – John Johnson – Modeling Masters) I wanted to continue the story today by discussing …
The Importance of Cash Flow Management
In a recent Entrepreneur University post, YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader Bob Foster asked about how to make important cash flow decisions. Therefore for this edition of Entrepreneur University we turn to Madhavan T Gopalachary. Madhavan is an independent management consultant who …
The Importance of Performance Management
Please note that this is a guest post by Beth Garvey. “One important aspect of business that many entrepreneurs tend to neglect is employee performance management. We get so busy with financing, marketing, sales, market research etc. But if we …
SEO Advice – 4 Hot SEO Trends
In a slight shift from the regular advice that I give website owners on Thursdays, I was recently contacted by a YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Stephen Drusano, who works for a SEO company called Blue Fountain Media. He shared with me …
20 Ways To Bootstrap Your Business
Last week I wrote about how to know if your business will be successful or not (5 Sure-fire Ways To Know If Your Business Will Work Or Not). In one of the comments, Timothy mentioned the importance of bootstrapping a …
Listen To Your Customers – Ingvar Kamprad
Worth $31 billion dollars, Ingvar Kamprad is the world’s 7th richest person according to Forbes Magazine. He is one of the most rule-breaking entrepreneurs (25 Businessmen Who Broke The Rules And Won) and I also profiled him in August of …
How To Build A Business In A Recession
Last week Will commented that he wanted to learn more about how to start a business in a recession. Therefore in response, this week’s Entrepreneur University comes thanks to Lee Lister. Lee is a Business Consultant with more than 25 …
