Monthly Archives: July 2010
How to Lay the Foundation to Start Your Own Business via Online Marketing
Many people have a big misconception that they have to quit their job to start their own business. Â In reality, it is perfectly doable to start a new business while you are still working. Â I highly recommend that anybody starting …
YE Interview Series: Mike Roberts of SpyFu
As part of our continuing interview series highlighting young entrepreneurs who are making it happen, we're very happy to present a great interview with Mike Roberts from SpyFu. If you haven't heard about SpyFu, it's just a matter of time. …
Youth, Entrepreneurship and Economic Renewal
An excerpt from Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom Up by Rob Salkowitz, published by John Wiley and Sons, reprinted by permission. "I'd like to share a personal story, if you …
The 3 Most Common Mistakes When Growing an Idea into a Business
Passion is an unbelievable thing. It's often what motivates me to get up in the morning, and it definitely what fuels me to be exceptional at my job. You need passion to start something new, to go above and beyond, …
Viral Video: T-Pain Style
Ah… creativity. It's one of the things that sets entrepreneurs apart from the crowd. When you think about it, we have to be creative. Whether it's finding new approaches to old problems, devising website copy and marketing materials, or coming …
YE Interview Series – Giancarlo Massaro of AnyLuckyDay.com
Here at Young Entrepreneur, we are committed to bringing our readers great content in the form of resources, advice, tools, and much more. One of the best sources of information about what it takes to make it as a young …
The One-Page Business Plan – It Might Be All You Need
One of the common things you'll hear from people when you say you're going to start a business is that you need to write a business plan. And there is no doubt that planning is a vitally important part of …
How to Take Advantage of a Market Switch
When groups of consumers move from one type of product to another on a long-term basis, new business opportunities can result. Market switches create demands for new products and services. In this rapidly changing society of advancing technologies and decreasing …
How To Take the Small Business Plunge
Okay, so you have a great idea for a business startup, but how far are you willing to go to make that idea for your new business into a money maker as opposed to a dream? Are you driven to …
How To Start Planning Your Business
Before you begin your business, you have to have a business plan. This should be written out so that you can decide what your business will do for others, how you plan to run your business, how much it will …
How To Choose A Business Entity
There are several different ways that you can structure your business and there are certain tax advantages as well as some disadvantages to every business structure. If you are not familiar with this field the best thing to do would …
How To Decide If I Should Buy A Franchise Or An Existing Business?
Buying a Franchise Many people who want to start their own business rush out and get a franchise believing that it is the best way to establish a tried and true business of their own with little risk. However, it …
How To Learn Which Regulations Matter
The Top 19 Things You Must Do Before You Start Your Business Before you start your business, you have to go over important aspects of the business that involve regulations and rules that you must follow in order to start …
How To Find Your Workspace
You have many choices when it comes to where you want to work. Take a look at these options to find your workspace. Home Office Working from home is something that an increasing number of people are doing these days. …
How To Set Up Your Communications System
Internet Connection When you are setting up an internet connection for your office, you need to make sure that you choose the top speed connection so that you can get online quickly, participate in online meetings and be able to …
How To Manage Money And Finance
Getting Paid If you want to get paid on a timely basis, you need to establish credit terms. You can give discounts to those who pay for your services up front. If you are a contractor, however, you may end …
How To Choose Business Insurance
Your business is an asset to you, so naturally you will want to protect it by getting good insurance. One of the persons who is likely to be a constant in your business development is your insurance agent. They will …
How To Learn About Human Resources
When to Hire a Staff Member You will want to hire a staff employee as your business starts to grow and there are several ways that you can do this. Some of the best avenues to explore when it comes …
Sales and Marketing
Marketing Plans In your business plan, you established your customer base and their demographics. While identifying your customer base is essential to your business it is equally important to figure out a way to get them to come to your …
How To Set Up Export Operations
Although there are several additional costs when it comes to exporting goods, many businesses feel that it is well worth the cost as the world appears to have gotten smaller with the advent of the internet. Most businesses today are …
How To Organize Business Travel
Ikea founder, Ingvar Kamprad, had a brilliant idea when it came to business travel. The travel policy for the company was to fly coach and take public transport whenever possible. This gave employees embarking on business travel a chance to …
How to Analyze a Company's Location and Sales Efforts
When you're considering purchasing a business, you need to understand not only the market as a whole but also the particular company's position within that market. You'll need to take into account location, economy, competition, sales, seasons, cycles, etc.
How to Buy or Sell a Business
Buying or selling a business is a big undertaking, one that demands careful consideration of not only the present but also the future, and one which requires a good deal of preparation to ensure a smooth transaction. It's like buying …
How to Determine the Value of a Business
Often the most difficult step in buying or selling a small business is determining what the business is worth. Valuation Methods There are two basic methods of determining the value of a business. The first is based on expectations of …
How to Make a Simple Sales Volume Forecast
Once you have analyzed the business and the market for the potential buy-sell transaction, you can forecast the probable sales volume of the business. This forecast is not an attempt to forecast or project the total state of the market, …
