Entrepreneurship Articles

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Kristi Ambrose @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 2:21 AM

As most of us that own websites know, back links and raw traffic are one of the most important things, especially if we are selling something. In order to receive traffic to your website you must market it! So, how do people market their websites? Is there a process you should be following? Well, by no means do I have the golden key. But I have found certain steps will help you succeed if you are willing to take them and be a little patient. Nothing happens over night, that is for sure. It could... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Cash Miller @ Friday, 29th August 2008 @ 1:32 AM

The law of supply states that the quantity of supply is related to price. So of course the smaller the supply the higher the price. When we deal with the law of demand we have the opposite effect, the larger the supply the lower the price. This is a simple enough rule but often one that is ignored. When you first start looking into what type of business you would like to start you need to consider this rule. Otherwise you could find yourself in a business that has too much competition for too fe... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Robin Matuk @ Thursday, 28th August 2008 @ 8:10 PM

Is your email inbox a mess? I learn a lot about a person from a glance at their email inbox or file management system. I recently worked with a client whose email inbox was, quite frankly, a mess. I define 'mess' by one or both of the following: too many unread messages and/or messages that are never deleted. If you fall into either of these categories, you are not alone. However, failure to delete your emails or at least create and move them into folders puts you at risk of mi... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Cash Miller @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 12:54 AM

When we think of Starbucks today we think of one thing coffee. Or more specifically some form of Mocha Latte or Frappuccino. Although many coffee companies have done fairly well in their own right during the last decade and a half Starbucks is by far the leader of the pack. And what started as a small unknown coffee shop in Seattle, Washington in 1971 has grown into the global leader of coffee today. All because of the vision of one man Howard Schultz. Now to be perfectly clear about this... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Ron Subs @ Tuesday, 26th August 2008 @ 4:26 PM

There are many benefits of owning your own business. Greater pay, no boss, flexible hours, and more control are all appealing aspects of owning your own business. However, many are distracted by the thought of those advantages and sometimes underestimate the difficulties and hardships when owning your own business. Anyone can take money down to their local government office and pay to obtain a vendors license. Then it is official, you own your own business, you work from home now, and yo... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Justin Stewart @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 11:54 PM

If you were to do a poll, you would find that a majority of people would love to be their own boss. A majority of people would love to make more money. What these people fail to realize, however, is that these things are possible. Successful entrepreneurs find themselves making the money that they want (and deserve), all while being their own boss. Becoming a successful entrepreneur requires a lot of hard work and dedication, but is something that can be aided along by taking the right steps tow... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Justin Stewart @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 11:53 PM

While many people out there are trying to be entrepreneurs, only a portion of them will actually manage to be successful entrepreneurs. Becoming a successful entrepreneur requires a multitude of skills and attitudes that can help you to go far in your business ventures. While there are multiple skills that are important, there are a few characteristics of a successful entrepreneur that are seemingly crucial to success. While some of these skills are skills that some are seemingly "born with&... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Justin Stewart @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 11:48 PM

Endless days. Sleepless nights. When people think of entrepreneurs, they often think of all of the down sides. They think of how difficult it is to start your own business. They think about how hard it is to find funding for a project, no matter how brilliant the idea. When people think of entrepreneurs, they rarely think of the benefits. While it is true that becoming a successful entrepreneur requires hard work and dedication, the benefits of roughing through the hard times make the idea of be... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Justin Stewart @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 10:56 PM

When people think of the word entrepreneur, they automatically think of success. Unfortunately, not every person who is an entrepreneur is successful. Being an entrepreneur simply means starting your own business, and doing your own things. While this requires more drive than usual, and can breed most successful people, there are plenty of people out there who have tried, and failed, in their entrepreneurial activities. With that being said, there are different things that can be done to ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Justin Stewart @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 10:49 PM

When people enter the work force, they feel as if they are a part of something. When they are hired, they feel like a part of the company. When they begin to work on projects, they feel as though they are part of the team. While this ownership is important to enjoying your work, it does not compare to the ownership of being a successful entrepreneur. When people think of being an entrepreneur, they often think of all of the hard work that goes into it. They think of all of the stress, as ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Scott Lindsay @ Monday, 25th August 2008 @ 2:13 AM

There's safety in the rut. Think about it, you're on a familiar path following a track that has a beginning point and an end point. Traveling back and forth on this rut each day provides a sense of safety if not adventure. If you travel to various locations along the Oregon Trail you can still visibly see the wagon tracks carved in sandstone rock as one wagon train after the other followed a trail with a defined beginning (Missouri) and a defined end (Oregon). There wer... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Shaun Parker @ Saturday, 23rd August 2008 @ 11:18 AM

So you're an entrepreneur. You have a great idea. You have money to invest and people that want to invest in you. How do you change your dynamic idea in to a dynamic business? Forming your own company can be fraught with legal pitfalls at the best of times, but if you are thinking of starting a enterprise overseas, the red tape could be enough to tie you in knots. The best way to find a way through this tangle is with the help of a company that specialises in the formation and incorpor... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Faye B. Roberts @ Saturday, 23rd August 2008 @ 12:21 AM

The question comes to mind very often what is an mlm leader and what are the best leadership qualities to have? Let's think about this for a minute. Any good leader no matter what he or she is doing will be looking at the positive of what can be done with what you have. This is where the saying comes from focus on what we have not what we don't have. So you might be thinking okay, so what other top leadership qualities makes a good mlm leader? I do know that a good leader will ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Cash Miller @ Friday, 22nd August 2008 @ 4:14 AM

Often a person is led onto the path of a becoming a successful businessman by a series of fortunate events that transpire. It could be said that Richard Warren Sears stumbled upon just such a path. But once he was on that path he did everything he could to not fall off. In the end he left not just a company but a legacy. So how exactly did it all begin? Amazingly enough it started with a failed scam. You see apparently in 1886 there had developed a fairly common scam of wholesalers shipp... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Catherine Harvey @ Friday, 22nd August 2008 @ 12:27 AM

When anyone comes up with an invention, the next step is to find someone to give them the financial backing that they can't supply themselves. To do this, they must have a tangible product for the person or company they are approaching to get a proper feel for. The idea needs to be well thought through in its practicality and monetary feasibility. The inventor needs to have done thorough, provable research to show that there is a niche in the market that this particular product would fill, ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Andrew Shiveley @ Thursday, 21st August 2008 @ 5:29 PM

Many of the fastest growing businesses in today's world rely more and more on search engines and the world wide web. Some of the most popular keywords such as "weight loss" or "travel" receive hundreds of thousands of queries per week. Business is all about saving time, which explains why using search engines to categorize and file the world's information digitally makes so much sense and has become so ubiquitous. The topic of this article has to do with building... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Kennerly Clay @ Thursday, 21st August 2008 @ 12:00 AM

Success in home-based business consists of mindset and efficient action. Sure, you can get lucky sometimes or be in the right place at the right time, but success comes from having these critical elements coming together. 1. Clarity (why you want to do it) Since I've been laid off a time or two (or four), it's easy for me to know exactly why I have my own business from home. The bitter after taste of being "let go" -- by a company that decides whether or not I provide... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Ron Subs @ Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 2:34 PM

If you are running your business primarily from the Internet, then one of the main things that you will need is traffic to your site. There is a direct correlation between the amount of traffic that you receive to your site and how successful you are online. One of the ways that you can increase your website traffic is by submitting inner links, or pages, of your website to a deep links directory. By doing this, you will increase the chances that your website is ranked better in the search en... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Cash Miller @ Wednesday, 20th August 2008 @ 1:29 AM

The world is full of sandwich shops. Seemingly they are on every corner and within every strip mall. But there are a few that have managed to stand out from the crowd. They have in fact become so successful that they are known all around the world. Subway is just such a chain. In fact as far as franchises are concerned they are now the third largest in the world. Trailing only Yum! Brands and McDonald's in total number of stores being operated. For those people looking to buy a franchise th... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Timothy Watts @ Tuesday, 19th August 2008 @ 9:45 PM

Having an online business is an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs. You have the ability to start a business on very little money, do whatever you want, and take it in whichever direction you choose to. A question many have, however, is whether or not it is possible to get rich quick with an internet business. It is a reasonable question for internet marketing newbies to ask considering there are ads and web sites all over the internet saying you can get rich quick. While it is poss... more...