All Entries Tagged With: "small business"
How to Use CNN’s iReport to Market Your Company
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File it under trendy but true: Online video will be a transformative marketing tool for entrepreneurs in 2010.
Online viewers consumed 33.2 billion videos in December alone, with the average viewer taking in nearly 190 per month last year, according to recent statistics from comScore. That represents a staggering 2 [...]
Three Secret Weapons for Entrepreneurs
Whether you’re considering starting your own business — or looking for ways to expand an existing enterprise — there are three time-tested secret weapons you can use to help gain a sharp competitive edge. These weapons are three broad business strategies that can help you to create a new business or push your company to [...]
Startup Profile: 3Kings Clothing
When was the company founded?
June 9, 2009
Names of founders and ages?
Jon Caballero, 24
Justin Mody, 24
Paolo Sagullo, 25
Asif Razvi, 24
Jillian Fortin, 23
URL:
www.3KingsClothing.com
Tell us about the company:
A streetwear brand based out of Houston, Texas, 3Kings is focused on creating products with uncompromising style and quality. The label aims to distinguish itself from other brands [...]
10 Online Trends to Watch this Decade
Lots of things are going to change and happen in the online world over the next decade. These are things that every aspiring or current entrepreneur needs to at the very least be aware of. Opportunity is everywhere especially when change happens. It’s time to start thinking ahead and planning out your next million dollar [...]
10 Smart Leadership Questions for 2010
If you’re like most business leaders, you spent much of 2009 feeling down and just about out—an often-inescapable result of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Odds are, you grappled with many new challenges, uncertainties, and “don’t want to, but have to” decisions. It was a difficult year—period.
Now, 2010 is here, and in the [...]
What Are Your 2010 Business Resolutions?
It’s a new year and it’s time for big things! This is not the time to make resolutions like everyone else does. This is the time to make a commitment and a plan to stay ahead of the game and achieve what you want from your business! It doesn’t matter if 2009 was a great [...]
Caution When Working Hard but Playing Harder
What comes to mind when you think of “Corporate America”? Chances are the following images pop into your head: suits, briefcases, handshakes, and all sorts of formality. But guess what? This isn’t your father’s workplace environment anymore. Today’s cutting edge companies are marked by jeans, sweatshirts, headphones, break rooms, and happy hours galore. All of [...]
30 Gift Ideas for the Young Entrepreneur
The holidays are approaching quickly and it’s time to finish up that shopping and get those last minute gifts. If you have a young entrepreneur in your life the holidays are a great time to help them out and give them something that can help out their business or their lifestyle. Starting a business is [...]
Coming out of the Recession — Creating an Opportunity Mindset
By Joe Calloway, Author of Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison
Hopefully you didn’t miss it. It’s dominated the news for a year. It’s been described as difficult, daunting, and even devastating. People have referred to it as a meltdown and a disaster. It’s the recession. But no crisis [...]
How To Find New Clients and Leads as a Young Entrepreneur
By Amanda L. Sage owner of Gong Gong Communications in Columbus, Ohio.
Ask any business owner what their biggest struggle is and undoubtedly they’ll almost always say it’s finding new clients and getting leads. It’s the axiom of business. Everyone will fall into selling/marketing groove that works for them, however the key is to be [...]
Don’t Go Corporate If…
What it takes to make your own stand.
Entrepreneur Survival Tips
As an entrepreneur, if you want to ’survive’ and make it off the ‘island’, then you must succeed. Failure is not an option, yet it is the most common result. In what can be called odd, so many people choose to play this game of ‘entrepreneurship’ even though they are fully aware that odds are [...]
20 Ways to Tweet: For Companies, Corporations and Small Businesses
There are three categories you might fall under when it comes to social media:
1) You could be using social media to grow your business or personal brand.
2) You could be looked at as the office guru when it comes to social media not because you know a lot about it, but because you’re young or
3) You could be clueless.
Regardless [...]
10 Things to Improve Your Small Business Marketing Results
1.Marketing is as much an art as it is a science. Plan, test, execute, and measure, but never be surprised by uncertainty and change.
In our eagerness to measure and declare return on investment for all marketing spends,
we often forget that humans are unpredictable. As such, we can’t always predict a
market reaction or group think. [...]
