Tag: business
Course of the Week: Intro to Facebook Pages for Business and Organizations
Learn how to setup and manage a Facebook Page for your business or organization. This course is great for those who have a Facebook Page and have had a hard time figuring out how to engage people through it and for those who are brand new to Facebook and need to know where to begin. [...]
15 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Land Their First Big Client
Q. What do you wish you’d known before you pitched your first big client? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment and provides entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources [...]
How to Start Your Own Company Even With Student Loan Debt
One of the most nerve-racking aspects of starting your own business is the financial risks you’re going to have to take. Some entrepreneurs are able to greatly minimize these risks, but there is always the chance that something might not work out as planned—and you’re going to be the one who suffers. If something doesn’t [...]
5 Tips to Launch a Successful Business as a Student
Often it can be hard to balance school, work and friends as a student. Money is tight and so is time. Add trying to start a business to that list and it can be near to impossible. I am going to talk about 5 tips and tricks that will give you the edge you need [...]
Millionaire Advice – How to Get Past Your Fear in Business
Everyone has had fear. It’s human nature to be fearful of a tiger. But why does it tend to get in our way in business so much? I’ve had the chance to ask millionaires and experts about their fear and how they pushed past it. Google defines fear as: “An unpleasant emotion caused by the [...]
3 Strategies to Boost Your Business With Social Media
We sometimes forget people were social before social media came along. To understand social media and the structure of social networks, we must think of relationships as independent of technology. With that in mind, here’s how to achieve 3 key marketing objectives, based on the way people actually use social media. 1- Drive Awareness Driving [...]
Women on the Rise in NYC Small Businesses
According to recent data released by American Express Open Forum, women owned businesses in New York are on the rise. The data was part of a study analyzing recent census reports. Since 1997 women owned businesses in New York are up %71.1 to 674,200 firms. The industries with the largest concentration of women-owned businesses, according [...]
When to Pivot, and When to Stay the Course
A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article for Under30 CEO, titled “Start a Company, F the Rules.” It was my personal manifesto on how to start a successful company. It was all about the early days; working from coffee shops, with everything on the skinny. Thirteen months later, I’m in a [...]
5 Lessons I’ve Learned by Failing Forward
Fresh out of college, I moved from Sweden to London, England, did an internship and then I set up my own business. It has been a bumpy road and I’ve learned things that no amount of college education could have prepared me for. Here are five lessons I learned by failing forward and what you [...]
It’s All Your Fault! So Start Working Harder
I don’t know why so many people blame others for their failures or mishaps in their lives… Maybe it’s their ego, maybe in society failure is seen as weakness, maybe people will make fun of them…Or maybe it’s just easier to blame others for their problems? “It’s not that I’m doing anything wrong, he’s preventing [...]
