When sending a new product or service out into the world, a flashy launch party won’t do the trick. Here’s how to spend your marketing budget wisely
Do Engineers Make Good Entrepreneurs?
Today I’d like to talk about the skillset required to start a business. Specifically, do you need to have a background in engineering?
Pitfalls To Avoid As A Newbie? What Do You Want For A Buck?
A strange headline? Not really, think about why you started on a specific affiliate program or Internet marketing site?. Unless you are one of the ?old-timers? who have seen it all before, most likely you were attracted by the hype and the promise of an easy road to Internet fortunes. A lot offer ?free? signup or minimal input ? OK great, but then what? Consider how much more effort and time you would be prepared to put into your start-up if you had a fairly large financial c…
Why do startups and small companies need to attend trade shows?
In this article, I will show you why tradeshows are very important for startups and small businesses. I am writing this from my own experience, as someone who worked on designing trade show booths, actually set up trade show displays, worked the tradeshow floors as an exhibitor and as a visitor.
Why Bother Building A Brand?
At a conference in Dallas not long ago, a graphic designer from Kentucky and I sat down at a table where people were exchanging business cards. I looked at his logo, and he studied the name on my card.
“I know that logo. We’ve been in touch in the past,” I said.
“That’s right. I know your name,” he said.
Although we weren’t able to pinpoint when or why we’d exchanged mail previously, we guessed it had been at least five years back. Neither one of us has an extraordin…
Simple Blog Web Promotion Ideas!!
Getting your blog off the ground is not as tricky as people make it out to be. If you follow some really basic steps then it can be as eating a piece of pie. I have found a couple great blogs that have taught be something very unique and extremely rare. What I have learned will benefit any and every blogger out there. Read on to find out more.
Top 6 Reasons You Need a Website
Some business owners struggle with the idea of starting a business website. Why do you really need a website?
Naming Your Local Business
Pothole Pictures: Normally this name wouldn’t create a positive image for a movie theater. But in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, where glacial potholes in the Deerfield River running through the village are a cherished part of the landscape, the name works well.
When naming a business whose geographical reach and clientele are mainly local, you can use nicknames, regional or city lore, local in-jokes and historical references that might be lost on outsiders. Subliminally…
How To Write A Startup Business Plan
Why Do I Need A Business Plan?
Why do you need to write a business plan? There are a number of reasons. Writing a plan dramatically increases your chances of success as an entrepreneur.
Here are just a few reasons why you would want to write a business plan.
1. Evaluating initial startup costs.
2. Determining what it will take to make a profit.
3. Analyzing your competition and it’s success and failures (which you can capitalize on)
4. Well defined rolls of all pe…
Bootstrapping a Retail Business
Information about how to fund a startup business until it can fund itself.
Before Going Into Business
The very first question that you must ask yourself before anything else. You got to demand yourself to an answer to this. Why the heck on earth would anybody pay for what youre selling?
The Reality of Online Entrepreneurship
Information about the realities of having an online business.