Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches
If you’re like thousands of other designers, programmers and other creative professionals out there, at one point in time you’ve considered starting your own business. Unlike most, you’ve gone against common sense and decided to open shop for yourself. And not just freelance full-time, mind you, but file for the company name, get some stationery, and wade through the legal mumbo-jumbo. Maybe even get a real office with a water cooler. This article offers real-world advice from the trenches of a small start-up, and is applicable to designers, web developers, copywriters, usability experts and all manner of service providers. Freelancers take heed: there are several items that are just as pertinent to your profession.
Is Starting A Business Safer Than Your Job? [Infographic]
What's Better - Getting a Job or Starting a Business? With a slow economy, many people have turned to entrepreneurship as a means to pay the bills. Which begs the question, what’s better today — getting a job or starting a business? We dug deep to find out the numbers and have compared the risk of starting a business to keeping a job. If you’ve ever thought about starting your own company, take a look at our graphic below to help decide if entrepreneurship is right for you. What do you think?
How to Motivate Employees
By David Austin on August 6, 2012 in Infographics What’s the secret to motivating employees? This infographic explains it.
Avoiding Bureaucracy
Certain industries are known for overly bureaucratic procedures. Health care, telecom, and power companies, come to mind. Indeed, every company has some bureaucracy and people who behave like bureaucrats. The challenge for growing companies is to implement just enough processes and procedures to allow them to scale their business while maintaining a culture that encourages entrepreneurial spirit, flexibility, and adaptability. It's a balancing act, to be sure, and one I'm quite familiar with, having worked with dozens of companies at various stages of growth.
106 Excuses That Prevent You From Ever Becoming Great
The following is a rare guest post, this time coming from Tommy Walker. Tommy Walker is an Online Marketing Strategist and host of “Inside the Mind” a fresh and entertaining video show about Internet Marketing Strategy. Be honest. How often do you sabotage yourself? On any given day, you have tasks you’d like to finish because you know they’d positively impact your business, and tasks you actually do.
10 Online Business Ideas that Can Give You More Than 1000 Percent Return on Investment
As you, Noobpreneur Business Blog readers and followers, might already knew, I threw myself into make money online arena about a year ago, with little knowledge of online money making methods, website or blog building, and Internet marketing. I still learn hard today, even harder than I was one year ago, but during my online business trial-and-error journey, I found dozens of doable online business idea that you and I can start with minimum capital and maximum return. You can build an asset in the form of web properties and online businesses with minimal investment (some with zero, zit, zip, nada investment) that can make you 10 times or more of initial investment – either capital gain or monthly cash flow. Yes, 1000% ROI – not only for capital gain when you sell your web properties, but also for monthly cash flow – that’s 10 times ROI monthly! To get you started (and revved-up), here are my top 10 online business ideas from my observation and own experience: So, there’s there.
Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: How to Make the Best Use of An Email Signature
So many times email signatures are an afterthought and not really looked at as an opportunity to sell. What I mean by “email signature” is the signature you put at the bottom of your person-to-person emails, not on your email marketing campaigns (although you can use signatures for that as well!) And I don’t only mean your own email signature, I mean the email signatures of all of your employees as well, especially if you’re sending out a lot of customer service related emails. First things first, you’ve got to make sure that there are standard pieces of information your employees include when they’re representing your business. Name, company name, address and phone number.Twitter and Facebook links and encourage people to follow you.Website and blog address. There are also some creative ways you can utilize the email signature portion of your emails that might not be “necessary” but could be fun to add as well as help increase your sales!
A Business Plan That Will Win Capital: 5 Steps
Your start-up is off to the races. You’ve developed a product and won a handful of customers. But now you face the biggest challenge of your venture’s short life - you don’t have enough cash to pay your employees and suppliers.
How to Build an Incredibly Lazy (and Successful) Business
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.—Robert Heinlein I’ll be the first one to admit it: I don’t like working hard. I go out of my way to be as lazy as possible.
Starting a Business & Startup Funding
Starting a Business How to Turn Your Development Skills Into a Sustainable Business Stefan Maynard 4 min read
Top 10 Online Influencers - Fitness
Methodology: How is influence measured? Influencers included in “SharecareNow 10: Fitness” have demonstrated influence within fitness conversations online. Influence is calculated through a proprietary algorithm based on more than 40 individual metrics, including disease-area relevance and online syndication, presence and reach. All metrics are based on content produced over the past year (from the list’s publish date) across multiple online channels, including Twitter, blogs, forums, mainstream news and video. About
10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011
Embed this infographic on your site! <a href=" src=" alt="10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />From: <a href=" Do a quick search for important entrepreneurs.
