State of the Business Owner 2012 Infographic - EMyth - Business Coaching Reimagined Back to blog State of the Business Owner 2012 Infographic by EMyth December 5th, 2012 Get More Articles Like This One We’ll send you our weekly newsletter, packed with EMyth resources and new articles. ibukun igbasan says: Thanks for the expose. Top of page © 2014 EMyth. Privacy & Terms <a href=" title="Contact us" target="_blank">Questions? 35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates | Developer's Too Advertisement For website owners who are evaluating e-commerce solutions, there are several good options for powering websites and shopping carts. Regardless of which option you chose, deciding on a design brings with it even more decisions to make. Of course, a custom design is always an option, but for those who want to keep costs down, templates are a popular choice. Premium e-commerce themes are easy to find, but they can be expensive. Free e-commerce templates are difficult to find, and quality free templates are even harder to find. We’ve done the research for you, and in this post we present 35 of the highest-quality free e-commerce templates available. 1. Crafty WordPress Theme | Demo | Download WordPress e-Commerce Plugin | Download 2. CleanBlue et-black PrestaThemes A collection of free high-quality templates for PrestaShop. 3. osCommerce Templates Footwear | Download Appliance | Download Cosmetics Store | Download Computer Store | Download 4. Modern Theme | Download from Magento 5. 6.
75 Startup Tools And Apps new business ideas and startups - So you have a new business or startup idea and based on your analysis and research you have conducted, your confident that there is a market for it. Ok, now what? You need to possibly find a cofounder and team to start planning, seek funding and successfully execute the plan for a pilot or full launch. There are so many resources and tools out there that can assist you in managing and excuting your startup or new business idea more eficiently and effectively. As a result, I have produced a list of my favourite tools and applications covering the various disciplines you will need to undertake in order to successfully execute and launch your startup or new business. Here are just a few tools and applications that I have used over the years in managing and delivering small to large projects. Brainstorming Ideas | Bubbl.us Simple online application that helps you create colorful mind maps that you can print and share with others and it's FREE. MindManager Creately Springpad Evernote Branding | Notebox
How to Grow a Business: When Big Companies Were Small [Infographic] Even the biggest multi-billion dollar conglomerate started off as a small business. After studying some of the most dominant brands, it's clear there was one common denominator that they share when growing their business -- having a clear vision. A clear vision of what you want to accomplish is one of the factors that will ultimately help grow your business from a small startup to big time player. Want to know how to grow your business? See how global brands such as Apple, Google, and Facebook did it.Apple has brought about one of the most monumental changes with its innovative mobile devices and impeccable designs, which all started with Steve Job's vision of allowing the individual and aesthetics to be the center of the computing universe, not the mainframe. Google toppled all search engines in the industry based on their ability to scale and make the web free for everyone. note: click on the image to see a larger version
Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg Ranking Employees: Why Comparing Workers to Their Peers Can Often Backfire We live in a world full of benchmarks and rankings. Consumers use them to compare the latest gadgets. Parents and policy makers rely on them to assess schools and other public institutions, and sports fans like them for help in sizing up their favorite teams. But what about when rankings are used at the office for appraising staff performance? It’s often assumed that employees who are benchmarked against each other work harder, to either hang onto a high ranking or raise a low ranking. “Many managers think that giving workers feedback about their performance relative to their peers inspires them to become more competitive — to work harder to catch up, or excel even more. “The practical question I wanted to answer is: What should employers do to make their employees work harder when financial incentives [aren't effective] anymore? Unintended Consequences When workers, also called “turkers,” click on a job, they are led to a web page that presents a set of tasks. Coming Back for More
WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs 75 Big Marketing Ideas for Small Marketing Budgets Don’t have a six-figure marketing budget like the “big boys” to throw around? Worry not my friends you can still go big without breaking the bank. Here are 75 big marketing ideas you can begin implementing today to grow your business regardless of the size of your marketing budget. Many of these can be done with little to no money, and will cost you nothing more than a bit of your time. 1) Get Active on Twitter It takes just a few minutes to make a contribution to Twitter and making this a part of your daily business routine is a steady way to build up a network of followers interested in your area of industry. 2) Start a Blog This needn’t be an everyday thing but posting to a blog a couple of times a week is a way to keep in touch with your customers and to convey more about your business and the market in which you operate to your potential clients. 3) Blog Commenting Contribute to the conversations on blogs by bloggers in the same niche in which you operate. 4) Forum Discussions 8). Get one…
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Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups Anyone who has started a business has his or her own rules and guidelines, so I thought I would add to the memo with my own. My "rules" below aren't just for those founding the companies, but for those who are considering going to work for them, as well. 1. Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. 2. 3. 4. 5. Related: Mark Cuban on Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers 6. 7. 8. Related: Three Steps for Getting Started in Mobile Commerce 9. 10. 11. Related: Is Any Publicity Good Publicity? 12. This article is an edited excerpt from How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It (Diversion Books, 2011) by Mark Cuban (Available at Amazon and iTunes). Click to Enlarge+ Get Your Valuation Do you know what your business is worth?
The Art of Manliness | Men’s Interests and Lifestyle How To Care For Introverts and Extroverts | Miss Centsible While my earlier comments were definitely high on the shock value scale, I still feel it is grossly stereotypical to classify people this way. Extraversion is flat-out a survival skill in US society. It’s a simple truism that ALL people need some alone time, and ALL people can sometimes focus, and other times get overwhelmed. Yes, it’s good to be sensitive to a person’s characteristics, but it’s NOT helping anyone to encourage them to never leave their comfort zones. Whoever told me to “try and educate myself” ought to see the diplomas hanging on my wall, in (you guessed it) Psychology. I daresay I have JUST as many Introvert characteristics as anyone else here — I just don’t let them stop me from stepping into being a leader (Not talking about a boss or a commander here.) What I meant by being “coddled” is “shielded from life’s lessons.”