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How to Manage Your Own PR

Admin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:31:00 +0000

Ten tips for running a successful public-relations campaign. At start-ups, founders often wear many hats, including that of a PR manager. The good news is that reporters and bloggers are more likely to listen to a pitch from a company founder than a PR rep. “It means something when you tell somebody, ‘I invented this [...] How to...

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Do Your Potential Customers Forget About You?

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:07:54 +0000

Posted by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) Your web business probably gets product inquiries from potential customers around the globe. Inquiries come via e-mail and your web site, and you try to send information to each hot prospect as quickly as you can. You know that you can drastically increase the likelihood of making a sale [...] Do Your Potential...

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Meat and Potatoes for Your Affiliate Diet

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:05:08 +0000

Posted by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) Think of banner ads as the spice in your affiliate diet. Sprinkle them around, but for a heartier helping of sales, you’ll need something more solid! Learn to give your visitors longer, more descriptive pre-sales text. Revamp your affiliate advertising using these simple steps: Pull the Reader in Introduce...

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Email Deliverability Tips

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:51:55 +0000

Posted by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) Ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to subscriber inboxes is an increasingly difficult battle in the age of spam filtering. Open and click thru response rates can be dramatically affected by as much as 20-30% due to incorrect spam filter classification. Permission Confirming that the people who ask for...

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Best Money Tips Ever

Admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:16:17 +0000

Some of the nation’s leading business owners, investors, and thinkers share their thoughts on rebuilding your wealth Barbara Corcoran Founder, the Corcoran Group, one of Manhattan’s leading real estate firms Bad times are the best times to move your business forward, especially if you are a small business. The big guys are back on...

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5 Billionaires Who Live Below Their Means

Admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:19:53 +0000

At least once in your life – maybe even once a week or once a day for that matter – you have fantasized about coming into a lot of money. What would you do if you were worth millions or even billions? Believe it or not there are millionaires and billionaires among us who masquerade [...] 5 Billionaires Who Live Below Their Means is a...

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Denial About Financials Leads to Failure

Admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:07:25 +0000

The husband-and-wife team behind a struggling ice cream manufacturer enjoy the perks of being owners but won’t apply that enthusiasm to managing their finances. A private-label ice cream manufacturer on the Texas Riviera—Lucky Licks—had a solid few years of sales, but its profits are rapidly melting away. The $5 million business is no Ben...

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Behind Coors’ color-changing beer cans

Admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:12:30 +0000

An ink-stained entrepreneur revamps beer labels and CD cases. As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Lyle Small annoyed his housemates by spending days on end painting their Ping-Pong table in rainbow shades of ink. He brewed chemicals to create inks that changed hue when exposed to light and heat. “I got obsessed,” says Small, now...

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The Bar Code Is Taking a Leap Forward

Admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:31:22 +0000

Look closely at recent supermarket coupons, and you may see some new markings on them near the traditional bar code: sets of neat black bars stacked in two rows. The new symbols, called GS1 DataBars, can store more data than traditional bar codes, promising new ways for stores to monitor inventory and for customers to [...] The Bar Code Is Taking...

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Collapsable Milk Jug Makes Milk Last Longer

Admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:11:24 +0000

A young designer solves the eternal problem of making the milk last as long as you need it. The James Dyson Awards, a sprawling event that garners thousands of entries from design students the world over, is a pretty phenomenal wellspring of ideas–the short list runs into the hundreds. Treehugger points us to one concept [...] Collapsable...

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11-year-old entrepreneur uses his business skills in Shallowater

Admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:02:52 +0000

This is a very inspiring story and exactly the kind of things that a parent can do to encourage entrepreneurial thinking and mindset in young children. Eleven-year-old Levi Stinson is Shallowater’s youngest entrepreneur. He sells flavored ice treats in the summer, and he works just about every day from noon until 4 p.m. His business...

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What it takes to make money, growing mushrooms

Admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:02:09 +0000

The shiitake mushroom wasn’t grown in the U.S. until the late 1970′s. Before that they were imported as dehydrated mushrooms from China. But we found out some people in the Chippewa Valley are now making money, by growing their own shiitake mushrooms. Deidra Barrickman has been growing the full flavored mushroom for 12 years on...

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New Entrepreneurial Culture Taking Hold in New Orleans

Admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:45:04 +0000

IRVINE, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of new jobs and tens of millions invested in business development in New Orleans, Entrepreneur takes a first-hand look at the city’s emerging entrepreneurial culture. The August issue’s coverage finds New Orleans to be another example of how entrepreneurship remains essential...

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Five things for employers to consider when hiring students

Admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:33:27 +0000

At this time of year, no doubt a large portion of employers will have a pit in their stomachs, knowing they may well have to take on a bunch of new graduates, who swagger around thinking they are God’s gift to their subject whilst thinking they have the relevant life experience to support themselves financially, [...] Five things for employers to...

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How to use Facebook if your company blocks it at work

Admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:26:18 +0000

I chose to post this because you might find it useful in reducing unproductive employees time at your own business. For frequent users of social networking sites, finding a FaceBook unblock services can be truly valuable. The growth of the internet has lead many companies and schools to install internet filtering software that can prevent...

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Free AK-47 for every pick-up truck

Admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:33:15 +0000

Max Motors, a Missouri, car dealer, is offering a voucher for a free AK-47 for every pick-up truck bought in August. Auto sales have been absolutely clobbered–down 28% year over year–so the government, dealers, and auto makers are coming up with all sorts of inventive ways to attract business. Mark Muller, owner of Max Motors,...

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A Flash PDF Viewer for Reading PDF Files without Acrobat

Admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:17:23 +0000

Ever had a problem showing a PDF file too big for emails or slow internet connection? Make it into a Flash movie format which has smaller file size and can be viewed anywhere. Like Scibd and SlideShare, PDFMeNot is an online PDF to Flash converter that will instantly convert any Adobe PDF document into a [...] A Flash PDF Viewer for Reading PDF...

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Grab Your Local Listing in Bing

Admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:17:07 +0000

Last week, Microsoft unleashed its brand new search engine onto the market. It’s called Bing and, contrary to what the name suggests, you do have to take it seriously. Even if you’re not planning to give up your Google search habit, you’ll still want to familiarize yourself with Bing to understand how you can help [...] Grab Your Local Listing in...

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China suicide puts spotlight on secretive Apple culture

Admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:10:25 +0000

Apple Inc said it was awaiting results from an investigation into the death of a worker in China, after media reports said the man killed himself on learning he was suspected of leaking company secrets. The case puts the spotlight on Apple, whose public face as maker of the wildly successful iPhone contrasts with its [...] China suicide puts...

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Stealth Starbucks: Seattle-based coffee giant opening neighborhood shops in disguise

Admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:05:35 +0000

How’s this a good idea? You will still be selling the exact same things that caused customers go somewhere else in the first place. A Seattle outlet of the 16,000-store coffee behemoth is being rebranded without visible Starbucks identifiers, as 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. Two other stores in Starbucks’ native Seattle will follow suit,...

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Package tracking via Twitter

Admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:49:34 +0000

Not only can consumers use Twitter to track their favourite taco truck, file civic complaints and apply for jobs, but they can now track their packages as well thanks to a new application from North Carolina-based Signal Engine. Users with packages to track begin by following PackageTrack on Twitter (@packagetrack), causing the free application to...

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Stores offering discounts based on location

Admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:42:04 +0000

Banana Republic, Wal-Mart and Home Depot are among the retailers that are localizing their sale prices to appeal to the demographics of a store’s location. It’s a deliberate move to tailor prices to fit local demand and inventory — right down to the individual store level, according to the Wall Street Journal. For companies like...

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15 Top Office and Home-Based Jobs for Seniors

Admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:38:26 +0000

Anyone looking for work knows the job market is tough and likely to stay that way for a long time. To help retirement-age job seekers, RetirementJobs.com has put together what it says is a carefully developed list of attractive positions outside the home and for those seeking at-home jobs. Here are the 15 best job [...] 15 Top Office and...

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10 States With Housing Jobs on the Way

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:24:00 +0000

That is how much the Obama Administration has distributed to 25 states under a new program designed to jumpstart the stalled construction of rental housing developments around the country. The government hopes the program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will create thousands of jobs for contractors, engineers,...

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Identify your intellectual property

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:23:24 +0000

Just as you thought (before reading this article) that cyberspace was the wild, new frontier, there are plenty of others operating under that same misunderstanding. What’s your intellectual property–specifically, your copyrights and trademarks–and can you protect them? First, are you using other companies’ trademarks?...

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What Really Generates Referrals

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:10:40 +0000

Building a foundation that automatically generates referral momentum is not done through external actions – like some many things in life, you do it from the inside out. Plain and simple the most widely referred business are purely more referable. Make people look good Keeps promises Creates an experience Educates, instead of selling Adds value...

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Next Time Your Restaurant Service Sucks, Try This

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:02:58 +0000

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One Company Exists Just To Market Your Golf Inventions

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:01:17 +0000

You want to know how many golf inventors there are? Just find out how many golfers there are, and you’ll have the answer. One company just opened its door to all those inventors. Fairways International LLC is a licensing and distribution company that will sign all the right documents to insure that your invention is [...] One Company Exists...

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A Start-up Takes on Wal-Mart

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:54:26 +0000

Recently-launched Alice.com is Brian Wiegand’s fourth Internet start-up, but the first to take on the consumer-packaged goods industry. Brian Wiegand is no stranger to start-ups. His first business, BizFilings, launched in 1996 from his basement and later sold for $15 million to a public company. He and business partner Mark McGuire went on...

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Start Up Competition in Silicon Valley

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:13:04 +0000

You might call it the “American Idol” competition of the entrepreneur set, as young inventors from all over the world are competing at Cisco in Santa Clara. It’s called the Global Business Plan Competition, and it’s co-sponsored by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Sixteen teams of university students from throughout the world are competing for $250,000 in...

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Bee all you can bee

Admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:09:01 +0000

Young entrepreneurs ditch the cubicle for a whole new take on office space Bee all you can bee is a post from: Top Business Opportunities Bee all you can bee is a post from: Top Business Opportunities

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Amazing “Hibi no neiro” video

Admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:42:43 +0000

The video was shot for Sour’s Hibi no Neiro (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album Water Flavor EP. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely with a webcam. Amazing “Hibi no neiro” video is a post from: [...] Amazing “Hibi no...

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A Dozen Don’ts for Entrepreneurs

Admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:31:18 +0000

Most advice to entrepreneurs focuses on what they should do: build a great product, assemble a great team, provide great service. All are “duhisms.” Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs don’t realize that there are things they should specifically avoid doing too. These are also duhisms, but somehow no one ever talks about them. Here is my list...

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I Just Made $250K From App Store In Two Months

Admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:15:43 +0000

Steve Demeter developed the iPhone puzzle game Trism as a side project, but now he’s quitting his day job. Why? Because he says he’s generated $250,000 in profits since he started selling the $4.99 game on iTunes this summer. That’s after Apple (AAPL) has taken its 30% cut of total sales, and after subtracting his [...] I Just...

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Inventors seek pot of gold through TeleBrands

Admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:09:15 +0000

You’ve probably never heard of Rachel Taylor. But it won’t be long before you can turn on the TV and hear hard-sell pitches — again and again — to buy the one-size-fits-all hair clip she invented. Taylor is a rare winner in a world of inventors bedeviled by losers. She recently earned a much-sought-after chance [...] Inventors seek pot...

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