"Entrepreneurship is 99% hustle and 1% good ideas."ť
-Joe Fernandez, Founder of Klout.com
At some point in your life, you are going to come up with a good idea. A really good idea. One of those “Million Dollar” ideas.
From the moment you think of this really great idea, you're going to obsess over it. Ponder it. Adjust [...]
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A business model is a description of how your business intends to operate and make money. Sounds simple, right?
For most companies, the business model used to look like this: I buy X, add some value to it, and sell it as Y. If I sell it for more money than the cost of buying the [...]
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Blogs and bloggers come and go. But when you have the right combination of dedication, subject knowledge, and the writing chops to sit down and do it day after day, a blog emerges that stands the test of time.
Over at Planning Startups Stories today, Tim Berry published his 1,000th post on “business planning, starting and growing [...]
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Article by Carolyn Higgins
I constantly hear things like "most of my business comes from referrals"ť, "word of mouth is the only marketing I need"ť. But when I ask these business owners, "So, how's business?"ť I hear, "slow"ť, "things are tough right now"ť or "I don't have enough customers"ť.Â
By far, word of mouth"“ or referral – [...]
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I’m not sure what I would do on Friday afternoons if not for TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). For years now, they’ve been introducing me to new ideas, problems, artists and an all around fascination with the world around me.
Audrey Watters at ReadWriteWeb (ReadWriteStart) has gathered 10 staff favorites that apply to startups.
And its a great [...]
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Darshaun McAway is a young man with big ideas. He was in his early 20s when he made a choice that takes many people decades more to make, and he’s been building a successful business based on that choice for the last six years.
“I was extremely tired of working for other people, and having [...]
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There are plenty of pundits out there claiming that planning your business is a waste of the time you could be using to actually run your business. Of course, we know several reasons why that falsehood is, well, false.
But why does it persist? Is it possible that resistance to business planning is part of a [...]
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I'm a big believer in systems. I hate the idea of "reinventing the wheel"ť every time something needs to get done. It's a waste of time, money and resources "“ all of which are usually in short supply in small business. Small business owners are great at systems when it comes to shipping it, fixing [...]
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Clate Mask is CEO of one of the Inc 500's fastest-growing companies, Infusionsoft.com. Ask him about how to build a successful business, and he'll say, "There are three, and only three, factors that really have an iron grip on the profits of any marketing effort. The smartest marketing minds on the planet have boiled these [...]
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Article by Carolyn Higgins
Pick up a newspaper, magazine or advertising circular and look at the ads. What do you see? Â A whole bunch of the same thing: a list of services; a company name; a tagline; a pretty graphic; and maybe an offer.
Most businesses think of advertising in one of two ways: 1) Put your [...]
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