• 4
    Oct

What Being an Entrepreneur Can Teach You

Being an entrepreneur is more than just owning your own company and writing your own rules. Being a business owner teaches you a lot about life and how the world works, but it also teaches you to be a good person. If you’re not convinced, read on to find out how beneficial being an entrepreneur actually is. You...

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  • 4
    Oct

Pleasing the Difficult to Please

You aren’t a business owner until you’ve had someone complain about what you do for them. Who among us hasn’t received an email in all caps with too much punctuation? Other than just being frustrating, these kinds of customers cost you time, stress, and revenue. However, there is a right way to satisfy your irate customers, and it...

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  • 4
    Oct

A Couple of Mistakes that New Entrepreneurs Should Take Steps to Avoid

Revenue is the lifeblood of your business. If you run out of cash before you can manage to create an income that will sustain your business, the game is over. Tons of promising businesses run low on funds before they really get off the ground, and they fail miserably within a few short months or years. Here are...

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  • 4
    Oct

Worm Attacks Tumblr, Spams Huge Blogs

Hackers are at it again with a massive attack on Tumblr yesterday. GNAA, the hacker group that claimed they were responsible, took down huge blogs such as USA Today, Reuters, CNET, and The Verge. GNAA’s Twitter feed indicated that nearly 9,000 Tumblr users were affected before Tumblr took the site offline and regained control over their own blogs....

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  • 4
    Oct

SEO: You Can Do It Yourself

Believe it or not, SEO isn’t always as complicated as some people make it out to be. Though there are some things that are more complicated than just the basics, and it’s good to consult an expert for those particular things, a lot of techniques you can do yourself. Build a Controllable Website Some people aren’t good at...

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  • 4
    Oct

Perfect Your Elevator Pitch

It doesn’t matter if you have already established your business or if you’re just starting out – having an elevator pitch ready at all times is a solid business strategy for anyone. An elevator pitch usually can happen in less than a minute, and it’s kind of a “one minute review” on your entire business. Here are a...

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  • 4
    Oct

Concern about a Twitter SMS Bug Allowing Hackers to Tweet Through Your Account

Twitter users who send their tweets through SMS may be exceedingly vulnerable to a newly discovered security glitch. When a user sends a tweet over text message, anyone who has the mobile user’s phone number can actually post tweets to that person’s feed. They don’t need account information or activation, or even the physical phone to post. The...

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  • 4
    Oct

Bringing in More Cash into Your Business

Of course you want your business to have more cash flow. Without cash, your business will simply not succeed at survival in such a tough economy. Just because technology has gotten more complicated and a number of services are now free, the need for revenue when running a small business has not changed. Increasing the amount of cash...

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  • 4
    Oct

Facebook and Google Say “No” to Patents on Abstract Ideas

Because of recent events dealing with patent and copyright infringement, the courts are alive with the sound of more patent cases, but two large companies are quite against several of those cases. Zynga, Facebook, Google, and five other large companies have filed an amicus brief with the US State Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this upcoming...

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  • 4
    Oct

Goodbye Procrastination, Hello Productivity

Procrastination will distract you from the goals you have during the day, resulting in stress and late projects. You don’t want to be the person that derails your business’s efforts to grow, so here are a couple of tips to help keep yourself on track. Be Honest about Your Procrastination This step is almost always difficult, because admitting...

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