Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Celebrity Apprentice — Watch and Learn
If you're like many entrepreneurs, you probably don't watch a lot of TV. With all you have to do and keep track of, who has the time? So when you do watch, it's great if you can actually learn something …
Entrepreneurs – It's Not About You!
One mistake many entrepreneurs seem to make, especially online, is in having a fundamental misunderstanding about how interesting they might seem to others. Yes, you are a fascinating creature. You probably know how to bootstrap a business, build it from …
From a Love of Movie Making to a Young Marketing Entrepreneur
Noel Thompson took a love for movies and film making and turned it into a business that specializes in marketing’s digital spectrum. He focuses heavily on understanding the client’s market and how they can have their website become not just …
Special Offer for Young Entrepreneur readers!
Dotster is offering 15% off your first order for all Young Entrepreneur visitors and members! Visit Dotster and use Coupon Code "ENTREPRENEUR15″* at check out to take advantage of this offer. What is Dotster? Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, Dotster has …
Four of the Most Innovative Companies You've Never Heard Of
Fast Company Magazine has just released their annual list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. Included are a lot of players you'd expect to see, like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google (Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively). There …
The Economy is on the Rebound, So is the Business in Danger
Many small businesses have had to suffer through this most recent, and rather major downturn in the worldwide economy. Nowhere was this more true than in the last half of 2009. The recent devastation has left many businesses in financially …
8 Degrees of Separation
Ok, so I’d be a little nutty if I didn’t share a bit about my downloadable audiobook, 8 Degrees of Separation. After all I am an entrepreneur too. It helps entrepreneurs tackle the psychological hurdles they face in starting or …
Something for Nothing: FREE Alternatives to Popular Software!
Your business is going strong, and now you're ready to expand a little bit, which includes adding another PC or laptop. Just as when buying a car you need to consider insurance, mileage, and maintenance in the price, it's important …
Stoking the Entrepreneurial Fire
It might have happened yesterday or ten years ago, but at some point, you felt it. As an entrepreneur you have — perhaps many times — felt that spark of inspiration and the rush that goes with it. That feeling …
Entrepreneurs Know How to Find the Sweet in the National Sour
There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. Congress has asserted, in a recently published presidential report, that small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. While this may not be a surprise in and of …
Win Win Books
WinWinbooks.com where you can buy, sell, negotiate and coming soon, trade! This is a new and more effective way of buying and selling your books on an auction website.
5 Simple Rules Every Networker Should Follow
Networking has been around for just about as long as business, in various shapes and forms. It can be an extremely effective, low-cost marketing strategy — when done correctly. Unfortunately, many people lose out simply because they don't quite know …
6 Steps to a Rock Solid Online Reputation
Your company's reputation is its most valuable asset. As founding father Ben Franklin once said "It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." Anyone contemplating doing business with you will …
Branding is Far More than Just a Logo
Many entrepreneurs quickly learn how essential great branding can be to building a successful business. These days it is no longer necessary to have an established brand with a massive budget to make untold sums of money. Web 2.0 has …
24 Cool Twitter Pages…and How to Rock Your Own!
Twitter's limited customization abilities are a good thing, many would say, and lagging traffic numbers on sites that allow free-for-all customization (such as MySpace) might just support that belief. In any case, Twitter does require Tweeters to think outside the …
Entrepreneurs, do you need to say ‘NO THANKS’ more often?
Why do people say yes when they want to say no? Perhaps it's ingrained in us from birth. Ever since we were kids, what was the one thing we hated to hear more than anything else? "Back to school!" Ok, …
It's Never Been Easier to Profit From Customer Complaints
Social media affords entrepreneurs with the ability to listen and service the needs of their customer base in a way that has never before been possible. It used to be that the majority of customers would either harbor their disconent …
FREE Biz Coaching Webinar!
UPDATE: Young Entrepreneur’s first webinar on February 11th was a huge success! Join us for our second YoungEntrepreneur.com Coaching Program webinar on March 2nd, 2010. Radio Publicity Expert Wayne Kelly will teach you special strategies on how to get you and your …
100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded without a College Degree
In an earlier post, we posed the question, "Is College Necessary for Entrepreneurs?" While there are certainly good arguments for both sides, it's a fact that a college degree does not guarantee success. And there are countless determined entrepreneurs who …
The IRS Gets Virtual: Small Business Taxes Made Easy
One of the most tedious things about becoming a new business owner is learning the ins and outs of small business taxes. Hiring an accountant is always an option, but for the independent business owner it may not always be …
6 Tips for Choosing a Great Domain Name
This is a Sponsored Post for Dotster.com. Finding a domain for your business can be challenging. Search Engines have complicated the process because keywords designed to please web crawlers are often not intuitive for customers. To help you build a …
The Right Stuff: What Makes a Business Idea "Great"
91 million. That's how many results come up when you search for the term business ideas in Google. Business ideas for internet, business ideas for women, business ideas for beginners, home-based business ideas, low-cost business ideas — there are even …
How to design an iPhone app for business — with no coding skills!
So, you've decided you want to build an iPhone app for your business. What's the next step? Well, you can hire a developer to create a custom application for you to the tune of $5,000, $10,000, $25,000 or more. Or …
Equipping Your Business with Uncle Sam's Extras
Anyone who has started or expanded a business is well aware of the costs involved. Even for the home-based entrepreneur, the expense of necessary business tools adds up fast. Between basic office furniture, computing equipment, printers, and any required specialized …
Is College Necessary for Young Entrepreneurs?
Let's face it. We live in a world where information can be found online for just about anything. What can't be found online can be found in books, and what can't be found in books can be found through internships, …
