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Lifelines For Your Start-Up
You have a fantastic idea and did everything in your power to put together a awesome business plan that just doesn’t seem to get much attention from investors. What do you do now? Here’s a few suggestions by Entrepreneur.com. Ultra Light Startups caters to “bootstrapping” entrepreneurs, says founder Graham Lawlor, who started Ultra Light by [...]
9 Proven Headline FormulasThat Sell Like Crazy
You can write a headline in an infinite number of ways. However, certain types of headlines have proven themselves repeatedly for many years. By following the “formula” of these headlines, you can give yourself an edge when you are serious about persuading someone to read and respond to your copy. The following 9 headline formulas [...]
Make Your Next Million-Dollar Idea a Reality
How often do you have a great idea, only to leave it sitting on the back burner? Worse, how often do you see someone take an idea similar to yours, start a business and create their fortune? Well, the time has come for you to stop kicking yourself and to turn that million-dollar idea into [...]
Need door-to-door salemen? Hire a Mormon.
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Six days a week, in fair weather and foul, two-dozen door-to-door salesmen, all of whom live clustered together in an apartment complex in this suburb west of Chicago, pile into S.U.V.’s and cars and head into the big city, bent on sales of home security systems. And on Sunday, their one [...]
Five tips to being more professional on social networks
In any case being “nice” and professional online is important. There are certain expectations that people have – right or wrong – when using social networks. Ensuring you and your company network online in an acceptable way is critical. First, keep sex, politics, religion, and family out of your online life to the extent that [...]
Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own Web Dashboard
Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, Google gives local businesses in the real world with physical addresses a free dashboard akin to what Websites get for free with Google Analytics. Except [...]
It’s Never Too Late to Start
At 73, René Burton is living her passion and helping those over 55 get physically fit so they can live life to the fullest. René Burton personifies the name of her business–It’s Never Too Late. Like so many of us, Burton knew what her passion was, but life had other ideas. At age 57 Burton [...]
