Affiliate marketing has a lot going for it. Rather than try and expand your existing operation by employing additional sales staff, undertaking new marketing initiatives or increasing your media spend, why not allocate a certain proportion of your revenues to incentivize external organizations to sell your products and services for you?
As we have come to [...]
Is Affiliate Marketing Right For You?
Kidpreneurs! Young Entrepreneurs with BIG ideas!
What’s necessary to become a truly successful young entrepreneur? The Brothers Adam and Matthew Toren, co-founders of YoungEntrepreneur.com, have stayed the course and prevailed in numerous business ventures throughout their lives. Together, they’ve consistently taken key steps leading to increasingly profitable paths in their highly successful careers, but surprisingly enough, it’s actually their early years [...]
"I don't think we can sit back and wait for someone else to take the lead, just so we don't have to expend energy or money. We've got to utilize the recourse it takes to advance our causes and hold up our part of the deal" – Donald Fisher
Donald Fisher has two life changing events to thank for his legacy. The native Californian readily admits that the first “changed my life completely,” and the second prompted him to start a business enterprise that would elevate him and his wife into the list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States.
Fisher, now 82 [...]
British Airways Jump Starts US Business.
An interesting and enticing initiative is being put forward by Britain’s flagship air carrier, British Airways, in an effort to “jumpstart” the US corporate economy and to give small to medium-sized operations a clear incentive to get out and meet potential clients.
Dubbed “Business Opportunity Grants,” the program is an extension of an already successful idea [...]
What are the best online financial management tools to manage your business? – Entrepreneur Poll Update #2
Time for another Young Entrepreneur poll update! A few weeks ago we asked you, “What are the best online financial management tools to manage your business?”
There are a lot of online tools available such as Freshbooks, Xero, Quickbooks and Quicken, which help make accounting and financial management for your business less tedious.
So, what are the [...]
Speed Up Your Website for a Better Customer Experience
Your website visitor is a very busy person. He or she cannot hang around for any number of seconds waiting for your page to appear. If you are not quick, the visitor will be gone. As crazy as this sounds, it is perfectly true. You have only a few seconds to keep the attention of [...]
Interview with Aaron Patzer
This week I have been lucky enough to interview Aaron Patzer.
Aaron Patzer started Mint.com when he was just 25, after becoming frustrated by the amount of time it took him to organize his personal finances using traditional computer-based programs. Launched in September 2007, Mint.com is a free, Web-based money-management tool that automatically culls personal financial [...]
Customers are like a force of nature: you can't fool them and you ignore them at your own peril.” – Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher is synonymous with success. He has become the poster child for the airline industry in an era where there has been precious little good news. Kelleher founded Southwest Airlines against considerable behind the scenes and blatant opposition and went on to head one of the most significant success stories in American business.
Kelleher was [...]
Essential Tips for the First-Time Entrepreneur
To a certain extent, becoming an entrepreneur requires you to be a multi-talented individual. First and foremost, however, you need to be driven and have a firm desire to be your own boss. You should be very tenacious and not be willing to take the word “no” for an answer easily. If you understand that [...]
What are the best online financial management tools to manage your business? – Entrepreneur Poll Update
Time for a Young Entrepreneur poll update! Last week we asked you, “What are the best online financial management tools to manage your business?”
Gone are the days when we used to dread tax returns (ok… well not completely gone). With a whole lot of online tools available such as Freshbooks, Xero, Quickbooks and Quicken, accounting [...]
Getting to the Top of Google Searches
If your website is like a billboard stuck in the desert, you are not alone. The majority of websites are established with great prospects in mind, yet not enough attention is given to specifics to ensure that the website message actually reaches its market.
Whatever line of business you’re in, whether you are selling a product [...]
Profile on Ernest and Julio Gallo.
“Success in life depends on who your parents were and what circumstances you grew up in” – Ernest and Julio Gallo.
Few people have had more of an impact on the US wine market than the Gallo brothers, Ernest and Julio. It is said that they were the first to introduce mainstream advertising and merchandising to [...]
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