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Choosing Social Networking Sites Carefully

Everyone knows how big social networking is for business owners these days. Social networking was originally intended to make it easier to maintain personal relationships, but businesses have made social networking a priority as well. Premier sites have made it possible for businesses to grow their contact lists, manage their relationships and created the concepts [...]

10 Inspiring Young Online Entrepreneurs

One really awesome thing about the Internet is that there’s no such thing as age discrimination when it comes to being successful. It doesn’t matter if you’re 12 or 72 - you have just as much chance as anyone of becoming rich and famous through an online business. To illustrate the point, here, in no [...]

What Makes You So Special?

What causes people to want to hire you for your services, use your product, visit your website, or read your blog? Whatever industry you’re in, there’s little doubt you have some form of competition. So why is what you offer different enough to make people choose you over someone else? A lot of people try [...]

A Must-Attend Event: 2010 Las Vegas Business Summit

Anyone reading the Blogtrepreneur site is most likely either an entrepreneur or wants to be an entrepreneur. In either case, you’ll definitely want to attend the Perfect Business Summit 2010 in Las Vegas, NV, October 7th and 8th. This incredible event is packed with influential keynote speakers and information-loaded breakout sessions to provide you with [...]

20 Amazing Women Entrepreneurs

These days, it seems successful entrepreneurs are popping up everywhere. And some of the most impressive entrepreneurial success stories are those of women who have accomplished amazing things in every area of business imaginable. From IT to retail, and from marketing to inventions, women have shown they are a force to be reckoned with. So [...]

Philips Livable Cities - Latest to Reward Great Ideas

If you think of corporate America as cold, hard, and uncaring, you’re not alone. But several big companies have stepped up recently to prove they too have heart and want to help make our world a better place to live in. The latest company with such a goal is Philips. Known for their electronics [...]

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Success Myths You Can’t Afford to Believe

Why are some people wildly successful in business, while others just don’t seem to ever get anything going? Sometimes the reasons are obvious. Someone who’s lazy, unpleasant to be around, overly negative, or just plain dumb, for instance, doesn’t have much chance of being a business success. They might win the lottery or something like [...]

30 Days to Pumped Up Blog Traffic

It’s pretty much universally accepted these days that having a blog is a smart move for any business. And because just about everyone understands that, just about everyone (and their uncle) has a blog. What that means is that the competition for traffic to your blog is strong and growing on a daily basis. After [...]

Avoid Becoming a Statistic - 5 Startup Hazards to Avoid

Statistics about startup failures are widely known by entrepreneurs as well as those thinking about starting their own businesses. The SBA says that only 44% of new business startups can expect to still be doing business just four years after inception. Even if businesses that were closed by choice, or due to retirement, the owner [...]

Building a Brand? Join the Crowd!

Most start-ups and entrepreneurs will by now have heard of “Crowdsourcing.” It is the Web 2.0 phenomenon that sounds almost too good to be true. It’s a simple way to find hundreds, even thousands of contractors who are on hand, ready and willing to work for your company. Crowdsourcing typically involves outsourcing a range of [...]

Viral Video Winner and New Contest Announcement!

One thing is for sure: If you’re going to be a successful entrepreneur, you’d have creative abilities. Not that you have to be artistic. Creativity comes in many forms. Whether we’re devising new solutions to old problems, creating blog or marketing copy or designing more streamlined business processes, we entrepreneurs use creativity all the time. [...]

7 Tips for Kick-Butt Blog Writing

Far different from book or other formal writing, writing for a blog requires its own specific set of skills. And once you’ve got them down pat, you’ll be able to produce sparkling, original, copy that will keep your readers coming back for more. There are tons of books and sites devoted to writing great content, [...]

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Coming Soon to a Device Near You: Web 3.0

Hold on… aren’t we still figuring out what Web 2.0 is? Well, yes. But those on the cutting edge have been dreaming of Web 3.0 for quite some time already. In fact, the oldest reference we can find to Web 3.0 was when Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was asked about it at a conference back [...]

Social Media Marketing - Why It’s Not Enough

There’s little doubt social media marketing can be a valuable resource for both internet-based and brick and mortar businesses. But it’s just as important to know what it can’t do for you as to know its benefits. While you’ll see a lot of articles on this site and others touting the benefits of social media, [...]

5 Steps to Solo Brainstorming Success

When we think of brainstorming, it’s usually something we think about doing with at least one other person. But there aren’t always other people around. Or sometimes those around you aren’t the right people for brainstorming. But as entrepreneurs, we sometimes need the spark that can be lit with a good brainstorming session, and we [...]

Flickr - The Best Kept Social Networking Secret?

Chances are good that when you think of social networks, you think of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, and when you think of Flickr, you think photo sharing. We recently posted an article on paid and free image sites, in which Flickr was included (with a few caveats) as a great source of free images. And [...]

HP’s Viral Hopes - A Powerful Video Campaign Example

What does it take to make a video campaign go viral? It seems that a huge chunk of the videos online that have gone viral were not planned that way. Everything from giggling quadruplets to free hugs have garnered millions of views without any promotion (over 60 million views for the latter!). They are the [...]

Review: Blog Writing Service - Water My Blog?

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How to Not Be a Twidiot - 4 Twitter Personas to Avoid

Do you have a Twitter account for your business? If you said yes, good for you! Twitter is an outstanding tool to connect with customers, drive traffic to your site, meet colleagues and industry experts, and much more. In fact, when used properly, you can get more mileage out of Twitter than many paid marketing [...]

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Perfecting Your Pitch - 7 Questions in 60 Seconds

“What do you do?” It’s a simple enough question, and for many, the answer is simple and easy. If you work at a job, for example, it’s easy enough to say, “I’m an HR manager for Sears,” or “I’m a cashier at the Piggly Wiggly.” Even for some entrepreneurs the answer can be short and [...]

3 Things You Thought Mattered - And What Really Matters

There’s no denying that the Internet, including Social Media, has significantly changed the way people do business. The attitudes of customers as a whole have shifted, and the power is moving into the hands of those customers more and more every day. While some of the changes brought about by the move to online communications [...]

How to Generate More Referral Business

Getting new business is a constant struggle for many small companies. A lot of companies market aggressively and spend a lot of money to increase brand awareness and reel new customers in. Marketing is certainly important, but when you’re an entrepreneur on a tight budget, it’s also important to make sure you’re getting the best [...]

20 Tips for Writing Great AdWords Copy

Make no mistake. Copywriting is the glue that holds an AdWords campaign together. You can have the right keywords, place the right bids, and even have great products and services, but if you don’t have powerful copy, your campaign stands little chance of being successful. When it comes to writing AdWords copy, there are 2 main [...]

Great Royalty Free Images - Why They Matter, and Where to Get Them

We’ve all heard the cliché, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” While it’s an overused phrase, the reason it’s used so much is that it’s absolutely true. Pictures communicate to us better than words alone can. They elicit feelings and emotion; they can explain complex concepts at a glance; and they can make an [...]

How to Stalk Your Customers Like a Pro

Imagine going into your local electronics store, Joe’s Electronics, to look at a new flat-screen TV. You check out the various models, talk with a sales person, and decide to think it over. You’ve heard Best Buy has some good deals, and maybe you’ll head over there tomorrow to see what they’ve got. As you [...]

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3 Steps and 3 Resources for Finding Profitable Niches

Finding a profitable niche is the best way to make money online without working in a highly competitive market. For those who want to make money without competing with the “big dogs” then learning how to find profitable niches is a lesson that shouldn’t be missed. Learning how to find profitable niches becomes something that every [...]

5 Tips for Fueling the Entrepreneurial Flame

Whether it was yesterday or fifteen years ago, at some point, you’ve felt - perhaps many times - that spark of inspiration and the rush that goes with it: The feeling in your gut that you’re onto something big, and nothing can stop you. No one ever said starting and running a business was easy [...]

Should Entrepreneurs be Thankful for the Recession?

It seems like for the past couple of years you can’t look at any list of the day’s news headlines without finding at least one story about the down economy, jobless rates, and all the challenges that go along with them. And while the media is notoriously negative and loves to over-dramatize things, there’s no [...]

Do You Have a Business Plan? What About a Life Plan?

We talk a lot about business plans. What should they include? Should they be 50 pages or just 1 page? Should you pay someone to create it, use a template, or do it yourself? One thing you don’t see as much discussion about is what you need to do before creating a business plan. Unfortunately [...]

4 Easy Steps to Automate Your Online Sales Process

So you’ve got your blog up and running, you’re starting to gain a following, and you want to capitalize on your growing popularity. One of the best ways to do that is by creating products around whatever your expertise is. Your followers obviously like what you have to offer, so whether it’s through e-books, audio [...]