5 Tips for Finding the Right Office Space
As an entrepreneur, the process of finding an office space for your young business can be completely overwhelming. When you know what you want, it's too easy to jump over important steps in the search process and land yourself with …
Be the Captain of Your Company's Ship: Changing Directions When Your Team is Sinking
Many businesses today are suffering from a terminal illness, and they likely don't even know they're sick. Because these companies are functioning well enough to get by, they don't believe they need the type of expertise required to diagnose a …
5 Career Truths I Know Now That I Wish I'd Known Then
Remember that awkward phase you went through as a teenager? You were doing battle with acne on a daily basis, you spent six years waiting for the growth spurt that never came, and your braces nearly electrocuted you when you …
Seal the Deal: The 6 Laws of Successful Sales
Each and every business focuses on its sales numbers. Whether a company offers products or services, their ultimate success depends on how many people they can convince to invest in them. While many believe that the executives in their ivory …
6 Tips to Get People to Look Past Your Age and See an Expert
You want to make the big deals and the big bucks. However, your hurdle is the fact that your looks and voice haven't matured as much as your ambition has. You have the disadvantage that your potential clients and business …
Holding Strong: How Working with a Holding Company Benefits You
Most start-ups know they can't go it alone. They hire consultants, bring in interns, and look into developing relationships with other companies who can increase their chances of success. Because of their desire to prove they can make it on …
Oops! Common Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make on Their Websites
As a businessperson, it's understood that website traffic is one of the biggest factors in your success. Making sure that search engines find you and push customers to your site is of utmost importance. The real question, however, is what …
Getting Ready for the Real World: Networking Between Campus and the Community
College life can sometimes feel like a vacuum. You go to class, you go to meetings, and you go out with your friends (with a nap here and there thrown in). College serves another purpose, however: to prepare you for …
8 Essential Small Business SEO Tools
Search engines are essential for getting your site noticed; however, it is an enormous challenge to optimize your site when you don't have the resources or tools necessary. With these tools, you can optimize your page both on and off …
How Online Courses Can Benefit a Budding Entrepreneur
We’re not all born with an innate sense for business. While some of us have been entrepreneurs our entire lives, many of us simply came up with a great idea one day or decided to turn our passions into a …
Lessons Learned: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
By Brett Orzechowski and David Tomczyk HAMDEN, Conn. — A movement continues across college campuses to simulate "real-life" situations that are equal parts emotional, professional, practical and educational. My colleague and I set out to do just that. We took …
Build a Strong Brand While You're Young
Brand management is more important than ever in a society that has currently grown accustom to the internet being readily available through smartphones and tablets. Managing your brand goes beyond the usual keyword searches and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics, …
Overlooked Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are not born successful. They work long and hard to achieve their goals. If you have a plan and are willing to put forth the time and effort needed to see your plan through, you too can be the …
Protecting Yourself from Your Partner's Creditors
Many entrepreneurs would rather not think of what could occur to their businesses if creditor troubles arise, however, it is often very important to structure the ownership of business assets to provide flexible and effective limited liability should something unexpected …
Critical Factors for Successful Meetings Management
Strategic meeting management (SMM) is defined as a disciplined approach to managing meetings in order to achieve business objectives in line with corporate goals and visions. SMM has become a key concern as the economic downturn has forced businesses to …
6 How-to Tips for Opening a Brick and Mortar Office
There's no getting around it. Advances in technology have paved the way for new and exciting business opportunities in the virtual world. But not all businesses can or should be operated without brick and mortar offices. In fact, the depersonalization …
Boy Mogul's Business is a Model for Success
Has your website crashed from too much traffic lately? It has if your name is Hart Main, a 13 year-old boy who recently started Mancans (scented candles for guys) in the family kitchen. Hart claims the idea came to him …
Best College Classes for Future Entrepreneurs
Probably more so than any time in the past, more people are looking to break the mould in career planning with the ultimate aim of becoming entrepreneurs. The feeling that the best person to help you make a good and …
5 Keys to Successfully Launching Your New Business
You are excited… you have a great new service, and you are ready to start putting it all together and make it work. However, when it comes to really putting all the pieces in place, you aren't completely certain on …
Living Your Soul Purpose: 5 Ways to Know if You're Stuck in the Mud
The term sole purpose is one I use in the business world. When a company is totally focused on how they can be of the utmost service, they become focused on fulfilling their sole purpose. A company's sole purpose can …
What is the Future of Entrepreneurship Education?
Seven top young entrepreneurs and leaders in the entrepreneurship education movement shared their thoughts during a panel at the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit (February 18) at the University of Central Florida. The summit, created by Extreme Entrepreneurship Education (also …
7 of the Biggest SEO Mistakes Most People don't Know they're Making
It's been said that the first page of search engine results is the most highly coveted real estate on the Internet. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of websites exist for the same keywords, but only around 10 can appear on page …
How Often Should You Update Your Small Business Blog?
If you want to start growing your business' marketing campaign from the ground up, a blog chronicling both your company's projects as well as industry happenings might be the strategy for you " after all, it's free, relatively easy to …
6 Red-Hot Startup Trends for 2011
Need a recession-proof business idea? Look no further than the following list of 2011 startup trends: Mobile Commerce With smart phones as ubiquitous as they are – and growing in use – it's only natural that mobile commerce should take …
6 Smart Loan Tips for Small Businesses
There's no getting around it. The economic downturn has made it more challenging than ever for budding entrepreneurs to obtain small business funding. To minimize losses, lenders both large and small have adopted more stringent rules and regulations for granting …
