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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 that will help you in your business while you’re being entertained.
The new season of The [...]

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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 are a few surprises on the list too, like Nike’s rise to 13th from 27th, [...]

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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 to look at additional software costs when choosing a new computer.  Whether popular software programs [...]

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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 that tells you in your gut that you’re onto something, and nothing’s going to [...]

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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 the game.  Don’t miss a great opportunity to boost your business!  For networking success, always [...]

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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 go to Google or another major search engine and research you, your key executives and your company. [...]

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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 box if they want to stand out.  And just as with everything you do with [...]

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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, but after that it was “NO.”  And our parents must not have liked saying it [...]

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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 have proven that success can be achieved despite a lack of higher education.
We have compiled [...]

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6 Tips for Choosing a Great Domain Name

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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 successful online presence, we at Dotster have provided 6 tips to assist you in searching for [...]

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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 websites dedicated to nothing but business ideas.
It’s obvious there is no shortage on business ideas.  [...]

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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 you can do it yourself for about 200 bucks.
AppMakr, created by PointAbout Inc , allows anyone [...]

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