Latest Stories for January, 2008

 

Patience – A Key to Search Engine Success

Matt McGee at Small Business SEM has put together a chart of successful search engine optimization.   It’s a one-page chart you can print out and post at your desk.  Refer back to it often, and it will tell you what to focus on. One of the elements Matt covers is patience: Patience:…

Introducing the Small Business Events Calendar

Introducing … the Small Business Events Calendar. We have set up an calendar to list small business events, entrepreneurial conferences, contests, awards, webinars, trade shows, business plan competitions, and other activities of wide interest to business owners and entrepreneurs. The…

This Entrepreneurship Quiz Will Humble You

Which location had the most startups per capita in the United States:  San Jose, California or Austin, Texas?  Naaahhhh!  (Wrong answer buzzer sounded.)  Neither is the right answer. The question is part of an Entrepreneurship Quiz prepared by Dr. Scott Shane in connection with his new book,…

New Business Ideas: New e-Shopping Ways

Electronic commerce has come a long way since the granddaddy of all online stores, Amazon.com, started selling books over the Internet way back in 1995. Since then, the Web has continued to evolve, with new ways and methods of selling goods and services online developed by online…

A Tech Consumer Moment

Early this morning I was lying awake early in a perfectly dark hotel room, about 6 in the morning, my wife and daughter still asleep in the same room. I’m traveling, jetlagged, in the UK.  Not wanting to wake them up, but unable to sleep myself, I picked up my iPhone. My hotel has free…

HUGE List of Internet Marketing Posts

Like to read the latest about Internet marketing, but don’t have time to research the many great blog posts out there?  Luckily, Tamar Weinberg has saved us the time and trouble. She’s put together a HUGE list of the best Internet marketing posts of 2007.  She’s compiled links…

Take the Survey: Small Business Websites

You may have heard the oft-quoted statistic:  fewer than half of small businesses have websites.  At one time I’m sure the statistic was accurate.  In fact, I used to quote that same statistic myself. However, I no longer trust that statistic.  As time goes on it is becoming…

Would You Bet the Business on Product Innovation?

Congratulations to good friend, Ramon Ray of SmallBizTechnology.  He was recently on television, on Donny Deutsch’s The Big Idea show. If you are here in the United States, and watch CNBC network, you may have seen The Big Idea show.  I catch it every now and then myself.  Deutsch gets…

6 Tips For Involving Your Kids in Your Business

Do you own a business? Do you have kids? Do you want them involved in your business? Do you want them to run it one day? Oh, and by the way, do you get a day older every day? This came up in conversation the other day, talking to women who will be on a panel with me next month at the Women’s…

Goal Setting Guide: Get Your Copy

As we start a new year I like to set aside time to set goals — personal goals and business goals.  Setting goals is about making choices for the way you want your future to be:  Instead of letting life just “happen,” you take charge. Instead of spending time on things you…

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