Tag: startup
These SEO ‘Tricks’ Will Hurt Your Reputation
Online reputation management is critical in a time when more and more customers, employers, potential dates, and others will ‘Google’ a person or a business before engaging with them to any degree. People tend to want to understand the good and the bad of those with whom they are consorting, and negative commentary about a [...]
5 Things Every Customer Wants from Your Business
When you own a business, one of your primary duties as a business owner is to attract and retain customers. The only way to retain customers is to keep them happy. While you might think that your customers are only concerned with your prices, there are several other factors that your client base considers more [...]
Dont Be a Fad, Solve a Real Problem
One of the things in the web world that you will notice is the theme of the latest “technology trends”. In 2012, the hot trends were photo sharing applications like Instagram. Trends are very cool because the media is on your side, investors are willing to put in money and you can make a lot [...]
What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur?
Starting a business venture sounds easy enough. It only takes a great idea, time to hire a team to turn the idea into reality and investors to arrange investment for your business. After that, if all goes according to plan, you will soon start raising money. However, the truth is that business start-up life is [...]
4 Ways to Launch Your Startup Without Debt
Are you still searching for ways to launch your startup but want to spare yourself of debt? Learn how one entrepreneur launched his startup with no outside funds. There are many ways to start a business. There are bank loans and venture capital, friends and fools, crowd funding, and angel investors. All of these ways [...]
Life After Start-up: Shifting Financial Risk from Personal to Business
It’s right of passage for entrepreneurs. We move heaven and earth, turn over every stone and beg, borrow and steal (not really) to make our business a reality. And that’s what it takes. There are no entrepreneurial fairy godmothers standing by to grant our every wish. But as your business grows and becomes viable, you [...]
10 Alternatives to the Formal Business Plan
Book-length business plans are out…but planning isn’t a total bust. What resource(s) do you use to put together simple business plans? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual [...]
10 Awesome Giveaways for Lead Generation
What’s the most successful giveaway offer you’ve ever used to drive lead generation? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start [...]
2 Common Mistakes Made by New Business Owners
Running a successful business hinges on your ability to make smart decisions while avoiding mistakes. When many launch their business, they sometimes do so before having a solid blueprint that highlights goals and that lays a path for small gradual steps. Your business is, in a certain light, a strategic game—like chess you must carefully [...]
5 Tips for Finding the Right Idea
Ask any entrepreneur and they will tell you—building a business around the right idea is easily the toughest part of getting started. Will this idea sink or swim? Is it worth spending all of my precious time and resources? How will I know when I have the right idea? Am I leading my team into [...]
