Web Hosting, Shared Web Hosting, Virtual Private Server, Dedicated Servers by DreamHost Internet Marketing Agency, Web Marketing | Digital Aptitude 45 Kick-Ass Resources for Online Entrepreneurs Few people talk about this great productivity tip… You will reach your goals faster and easier if you’re willing to learn from others. Using brilliant, well-crafted resources created specifically for online entrepreneurs improves your online productivity. Below I have a long list of resources, most of which I’ve used myself. Enjoy the list. I’ve arranged the resources from those helpful to beginners to those suited to more advanced entrepreneurs. The links to these resources are not affiliate links. Helpful from the word go… If you’re new to online business, you’ll find value in the following resources. 1. Before you can blog, collect email addresses or sell anything, you need a little piece of real estate on a reliable web server. 2. I’m hoping that no one laughs at this resource recommendation. 3. Today web design is easy. Productive Entrepreneur is running the Genesis framework and the Prose child theme. 4. 5. Copyblogger.com is where you learn about content marketing. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development | Learn how to do Customer Development, an essential part of the Lean Startup® framework. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development | The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development 46 Ways To Start A Business With No Money Most people who want to start their own business don’t have a ton of money laying around and it’s probably one the most common questions I get emailed about: How can I get started without a lot of cash? Well I’ve put together a list below of the best ideas I’ve heard and personally used. I hope you find it useful! The three basic strategies to starting a business without much money are: Delay the normal “business starting” activities like incorporating, hiring, renting office or retail space, etc until AFTER your business has started earning money. This is known as bootstrapping.Doing everything yourself and spending your personal time instead of hiring an expert. Start With The Easy Stuff: Eliminate Expenses Don’t rent an office! Legal Stuff and Incorporating Make a website for your business Getting a Logo Don’t hire a fancy graphic designer. Accepting Credit Cards Starting a service business where you consult, coach, teach, etc Creating Info Products Before investing in a retail location…
A Crash Course in Information & Visual Design Good design is an interesting thing. It's easy to identify but hard to explain. If you have ever tried to mimic good design, you'll really know what I mean. Sometimes, even with the "inspiration" right before your eyes, you struggle with creating something that feels as "tight" as the original piece. My goal is to give you a crash course in some of the fundamental elements of design as well as a few subjective best-practices from my experience. Visual design is the sum of many details. Perfection comes from relentless iteration. I'm starting with white space, because it is perhaps the single most important overlooked factor to consider in visual design. White space need not be white. Here we have the letter "e". "Web design is 95% typography" says design agency Information Architects. Best I can do is give you some thoughts: While some claim that serif fonts tend to be more readable, there has been no conclusive study proving that, making it appear to be convention over best practice.
Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers: An Example of a Viral Re-Brand A few days ago, Lisa Barone wrote an article about the need to tell your story about your business, using social media tools. One of the examples she mentioned was the re-branding of virtual switchboard and voice mail services provider, GotVMail, to Grasshopper. She noted: “Earlier this week, 5,000 influential marketers were sent chocolate covered grasshoppers to snack on and blog about. I happened to be one of those so-called “influential marketers” who received a package of the chocolate-covered grasshoppers. The office mail clerk (ahem… my husband) announced it came from a company called Grasshopper. Here’s a close-up of the package of chocolate-covered grasshoppers. The package label sends you to a URL where you can watch a video, at I will tell you that the grasshoppers are seriously lumpy in that package. I won’t be eating them though. So what’s the connection with entrepreneurs and small businesses and grasshoppers? Rob, there may be something to that.
Paul Debevec Home Page Personal site with links to research and animation projects at UC Berkeley (1992-2000) and USC ICT (2000-) ICT Graphics Laboratory site with links to research and animation projects (2000-) » Blog Archive » Calculate This! 100 Financial Calculators Every Entrepreneur Needs Calculate This! 100 Financial Calculators Every Entrepreneur Needs Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 1:27pm by Site Administrator By Eliza Morgan Many entrepreneurs don’t have the luxury of having a separate accounting department, instead doing their own number crunching. Business Operations Don’t get caught off guard by the unexpected financial pitfalls of owning a business. Loans Unless you’re bootstrapping it, or you’ve come into quite a financial windfall, it’s likely that your business will need a few loans to get up and running. Debt Management Don’t let your loans get out of hand. Business Debt Consolidation: Have multiple business credit cards or loans holding debt for your company? Investment Make your business and personal investment tracking easy with these investment calculators. Taxes Unfortunately, taxes are an inevitable part of any business’ day to day life. Personnel Make the business of doing your payroll easier with these free calculators. Personal Finance
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Samsung & Yahoo! Bring Interactivity to Your Smart TV 6 November '12, 12:16am Follow Originally based on the Konfabulator Widget Engine, Yahoo’s Widget Channel Connected TV initiative has been around in various forms since 2008, and now, thanks to a new multi-year partnership with Samsung, the service will continue to be pushed front and center on new smart TVs. At the heart of the deal, Yahoo’s Broadcast Interactivity service powered by SoundPrint (automatic content recognition technology) will be integrated into Samsung’s SyncPlus platform with the hope of “enabling new opportunities” for content discovery and adding new levels of interactivity between shows, advertisers and viewers. More specifically, Yahoo says this agreement will provide Smart TV users with “actionable content that runs alongside and complements TV shows and commercials.” Image credit: MASSOUD HOSSAINI / Getty Images