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Top Tips to Make Your Website SEO Friendly
There is a saying, "build it and they will come," but this definitely doesn't always apply to websites. The best way to get people to your website is to make sure it's search engine optimized. It can be a tricky …
Cloud Computing: When Does it Make Sense for Your Business?
Never more will we worry about the crashing of a hard drive being the downfall of the very existence of our businesses. All of our hopes and dreams about technological security have been answered. Cloud computing has come to the …
Making Sense of the Application Landscape
New year, new toys. Consumer electronics, that is. I’m just getting back and reflecting on CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the largest tech geek kickoff of the year. This year I got the chance to see the new consumer electronics and tech …
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 …
Millennial Branding on How Gen-Y is Using Facebook
Check out the infographic! Here at Young Entrepreneur, we have always said that "young" is more a state of mind than a number. We know that entrepreneurs in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond read and participate on the site, …
Common Mistakes made by Online Business Owners
Creating and running an online business takes work… a lot of work! However, we often see some common mistakes made by online business owners that prevent them from having the level of success they truly want and deserve. There are …
Critical insights from Jon Wuebben, Author of Content is Currency
If you're confused about social media and site content, you're not alone. It's a subject you see everywhere these days, but it's one that not many fully understand. Fortunately, a new book is about to be release called Content is …
Start Controlling Your Online Reputation in Ten Minutes
Have you looked yourself up online lately? Do you know what shows up? Embarrassing college photos? An unfortunate public record? Perhaps you share a name with a convicted felon or you received national press for being the world's cutest baby …
Taking Your Social Networking Offline
It seems as though everywhere you look, there's another blog post, article, or news story about social media. If a person didn't know better, you might think social networking is the only way to connect with people anymore. Of course …
SEO 101: The Basics Every Entrepreneur Should Know
The story goes that in ancient times (B.C. – and I don't mean before computers) women of ill repute would have a symbol carved on the sole of their sandals. As they walked through the dirt and mud of the …
Virtual Office 101: Tips for Better Productivity
I started my virtual company – Java Social Networking – about three years ago, and since then we’ve grown to 8 employees (and 1 dog) who work from homes and coffee shops around the country. Virtual offices pose their own …
Going global from the comfort of your home office
Ahhh, the internet. When it's not providing us with cute pictures of cats or provoking outcry by changing the layout of our favorite social networks, it's helping small start-ups go global. Taking that first step into foreign waters can be …
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 …
Young Entrepreneur Interview: Patrick Chukwura, Co-Founder of Fine & Dandy Games
In an entrepreneurial space where there are literally thousands of competitors, you have to have something special to be successful. Today's interview with Patrick Chukwura highlights just the kind of attitude and savvy a young entrepreneur has to have if …
Four easy ways to make the most of your blog
You shouldn't need anyone to tell you just how incredibly important it is to have a company blog. But just to hammer the point home, it's incredibly important to have a company blog! And for cash-strapped start-ups, it's the ideal …
7 Steps for Planning Superior Webinars
Spend any amount of time online or using email, and you're bound to come across an invitation to attend a webinar. The webinar has become widely recognized as a useful, inexpensive way to communicate your message to a lot of …
So You Want To Start An Online Business?
Do you know what a payment gateway is? Do you understand what affiliate marketing is and how to build your team? Can you set up a squeeze page to capture leads? Do you know the steps to launch a product …
5 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Keywords and the Art of SEO
I’m often surprised when otherwise business savvy entrepreneurs tell me they are interested in building a Web presence but can't articulate the reasons why. Invariably, it turns out, their goals are mostly the same: driving traffic and converting visitors into …
Congratulations to all Small Business Influencer 2011 Nominees!
Nominations are in, and the voting is down to the final week in the “Small Business Influencer 2011″ awards, produced by Small Business Trends and Small Biz Technology. Small Business Influencer 2011 is meant to honor companies, organizations, and people …
The Biggest Mistake Internet Entrepreneurs Make
My last post was all about why you shouldn’t give up on the dream, and as I sat down to think about my next post here I realized the logical follow-up was something along the lines of Okay, now what? …
Why You Need the Foreign Language Internet
You’ve got a great idea, now how can you make your business grow rapidly? The fact is that most products and services are easily exportable, and the easiest way to do that is over the web. For a small amount …
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 …
Building an Online Business During Commercial Breaks
One of the biggest challenges many small business owners and entrepreneurs face has to do with time; there doesn't seem to be enough of it, and we always want more of it. Many entrepreneurs are still working the 9 to …
Beef Up Your Blog Traffic in 30 Days or Less
By now, you know how important it is to have a blog, right? Whatever business you're in, blogging is a must. It helps you and your business in so many ways. Blogging can bring more traffic to your site, help …
5 Steps to Writing a Killer White Paper
The purpose of a white paper is to deliver information about your business to your prospect in an educational format. You should pick a topic that will generate awareness to a problem your services are designed to address. At the …
