Monthly Archives: December 2009
Think Outside the Box With Social Media Marketing
If your online efforts are stuck in a rut, you have spent a lot of time and effort in perfecting the appearance and feel of your website, but your visitor traffic has plateaued, then it is time for a boost …
Intelligent Entrepreneurs Tweet Smarter
Intelligent Entrepreneurs Tweet Smarter Of course you have heard of Twitter; the free social networking and micro-blogging service which allows users to communicate with other users, or "tweeters" in bite-sized 140 character snippets. You're probably on Twitter as well. You …
Lending
Entrepreneurs tend to think different, regularly seeing opportunities in places that others do not. Because of this, entrepreneurs have been able to historically find ways to profit in any economic environment. Though times are lean for much of the country, …
Home Based Entrepreneur
A recent survey conducted by Emergent Research has done a great job of documenting the remarkably robust financial impact that home-based businesses have on our economy. Though entrepreneurs have been fundamental to the United States economy for as long as …
12 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Online Marketing Plan
Most of us seem to have problems sticking to just one New Year’s resolution, don’t we? The truth is that if these resolutions really meant something to us, deep down inside, then we would keep up with the changes and …
Profile on Julie Aigner-Clark: Founder of Baby Einstein
"There was nothing on the market that I felt was any good, so I decided to make something myself," – Julie Aigner-Clark Julie Aigner-Clark is probably the ultimate momtrepreneur. Yet she didn’t start out with any grand ambitions in the …
What Can You Offer That Is Different?
If you have been in business for some time, the chances are that you get so engrossed in the day-to-day operation and spend so much time effectively putting out fires rather than being fully focused, that you are really not …
Check Your Website Against Our List of Key Design Points
Your website is your window to the world and for many people will be the first impression that they get. You had better make it a good one during the second or two it usually takes for them to form …
Kick Start Your New Year
Almost all of us make some kind of New Year’s resolutions. It’s almost as if it’s traditional to do so, whether we like it or not! Have you considered your resolutions for 2010? While many of us intend to change …
Profile on Sam Walton
"Capital isn’t scarce; vision is" – Sam Walton Sam Walton could be one of the most understated and under-recognized names in the history of the United States. Much to his delight, his influence on the very way that we live …
Creative Entrepreneur
Creative Entrepreneurs Protect their Future One Idea at a Time Those creative entrepreneurs who are not only willing to go out on a limb and invest in the next big thing, but to actually develop a project from start to …
The Top 10 Small Business Books of 2009
In no particular order, we have compiled a list of what we consider to be ten of the best books released during 2009. These books should be in the library of every small business owner and entrepreneur, as they often …
How To Design a Winning Email Newsletter
An e-mail newsletter is still one of the strongest marketing tools you can deploy. Always remember that this type of marketing campaign should be subtle and not intrusive. Over the years, e-mail spam has quite rightly developed a very bad …
Hottest College in America
We’re selecting the twelve most beautiful women in Tucson for the first-ever ‘Girls of the University of Arizona.’ The swimsuit calendar, distributed for free across campus and funded by advertisers, is scheduled to be released in August 2010 and will …
Keep Your Financial Faucet Flowing
Set Simple Strategies in Place to Keep Your Financial Faucet Flowing: For entrepreneurs just starting out, or even entrepreneurs in the middle of a transition or period of growth, waiting by the mailbox (or PayPal account these days) for the …
Young Entrepreneur, The New Drug!
The team at YoungEntrepreneur.com and SupercoolCreative.com worked hard on creating this video which we hope you enjoy! If you do, help us spread the word about the video by clicking the Retweet button below, putting the link on your Facebook, …
2010 Year of Social Change
2010 is the Year For the Smart Entrepreneur to Get Smart About Social Change Many economists are already speculating that the worst of the current recession may be over. Though most entrepreneurs are able to see the silver lining in …
Encourage Repeat Customers With Google Voice
Are you able to keep up with all the tools coming out from Mountain View? You may not be familiar with Google Voice, but it could help encourage some of your customers to become repeat buyers through a rather easy …
Profile on Craig Newmark
"People are smart, good and surprise me with the way they use our site." Craig Newmark. You could be forgiven for thinking that Craig Newmark was maybe a little naïve, exuding a level of trust that simply does not seem …
Boost Your Holiday Sales
Black Friday typically signifies the day when retailers move their annual sales from the red into the black, a scary thought by itself when you realize that it takes them 11 months of negative trading before they can start to …
7 Top Tips for Successful Email Marketing
E-mail marketing remains a very powerful strategy, so long as you approach it correctly, you are very relevant and you are careful not to waste the time of your subscriber. Sounds like a commonsense statement? Let’s drill into the do’s …
Don’t Forget Good, Old Fashioned Press Releases!
Due to the spontaneity and instant nature of the Internet, many have started to forget about the power of a good, old-fashioned press release. Before the advent of social media and the Internet, press releases were the prime tool available …
Profile on Peter Jones
"Believe in yourself, never give up and go about your business with passion, drive and enthusiasm" – Peter Jones Peter Jones is quintessentially British, as Anglophile as his no-nonsense, straight to the point name might suggest. In many respects however …
IMLeagues
imleagues.com does for intramural sports what Yahoo and ESPN have done for fantasy sports – we make running an intramural program much easier by automating the process and bringing it online, and at the same time we make it a …
1 Fit Mutt
Fitness is crucial to a dog’s health. Find out how to keep your dog fit with 1 Fit Mutt.
