Small Business Ideas | Understanding your site's visitors

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In the early stages of a website, analytics are a double-edged sword. Dig in too early and you don’t have enough data, wait too long and you potentially lose out on opportunities for growth and revenue.  So the question is:  When it is the right time to dig in and try to understand what people are doing once they get to your site?  Click here to find out

Small Business Ideas | Startup Communities

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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City!

Small Business Ideas | Legally Raise Up to $1M!

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The JOBS ACT is the most impactful legislation for the private markets in years, but with the SEC rulings backlogged, the full implications aren’t completely clear...but one thing is for sure, according to Don Carlson, founding partner of a venture law firm based in New York  " What the JOBS Act does it open up a SECONDARY market for private securities that liberates angel investors like me from the liquidity trap"....Read More

Small Business Ideas | Unemployment Solution ..."Emerging Growth Company" IPOs

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Nearly 1.9 million new jobs forfeited in the past decade as fewer entrepreneurial firms join ranks of public companies, but employment at "emerging growth" companies following IPOs far outpaced other public companies.  Read more...

Small Business Ideas | Start a Business with the "Exit Day" in Mind

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Many Small and Mid-Market CEOs sell their companies for far less than they had expected to receive.  This is mainly because many of them get caught off-guard for not having prepared for the “exit day.”

How does this happen? Mid and Small market CEOs underinvest in training themselves on how to prepare their companies for an exit. Many believe this is the role of the investment banker or the business broker.   Although bankers and business brokers play an important role in selling a business, there is a lot more a CEO can do to build a business and max out their sale price when it's time to sell.  Read More....

Small Business Ideas | Marketing Is All About Building Influence

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Most entrepreneurs indicate their biggest business frustration is sales & marketing.  To succeed in business, you do not necessarily need to “sell” a product, rather you want to influence your target customer's opinion.  By influencing their opinion you can do anything.  Read more...

 

Small Business Ideas | Marketing Is All About Building Influence

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Most entrepreneurs indicate their biggest business frustration is sales & marketing.  To succeed in business, you do not necessarily need to “sell” a product, rather you want to influence your target customer's opinion.  By influencing their opinion you can do anything.  Read more...

 

Small Business Ideas | The 3 Biggest Obstacles For Starting A Company Are...

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   Financing --------------------------> 36%
2. Knowing Where to Begin ---> 34.7%
3. Fear of Failing -------------------> 10.1%

Small Business Ideas | SMO, The New Small Business SEO

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Prediction: SMO (Social Media Optimization) will become the new small business SEO.  Google's decision to include paid product search results will force entire industries to adapt by migrating to Social Media Marketing.  Read More...

Small Business Ideas | How to Calculate your Marketing Budget

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As a general rule, small businesses with revenues less than $5 million should allocate 7-8 percent of their revenues to marketing. This budget should be split between:

1) Brand Development: website, blogs, sales collateral, etc.

2) Promoting Your Business:  campaigns, advertising, events, etc.

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Small Business Ideas | SEO Tidbits - Did you know...

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Small Business owners who do their own digital marketing need to consider what their end user would like and ultimately what search engines would find natural and rankable.  Read more...

Small Business Ideas | Best Performing VC Funds Are Smaller Than $500 Million!

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Smaller Funds...The Future of VC Funding.  Sequoia announced their next fundraising round will be split into a series of fund vehicles rather than one large fund.   Read More...

Small Business Ideas | How to Unlock $7.5 Billion of New Investment in StartUps

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Exempting capital gains taxes on investments in startups held for five years or more would unlock $7.5 billion of new investment in startups!  Read More...

Bootstrap | StartUps Must Plan for Slow Customer Payments

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Entrepreneurs who said their biggest challenge was customers paying late or not making payments jumped from 2 percent in 2008 to 14 percent in 2010.  Read more...

Small Business Ideas | Is Entrepreneurship For You?

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If mistakes demoralize you to the point of bringing you down or giving up, stop now: entrepreneurship isn’t for you.  A failure can be a learning experience, or a shock to your confidence.  Winners come back from defeats and overcome setbacks.  If you can’t do that, then maybe entrepreneurship isn’t for you, at least not now.  Read more...

Small Business Ideas | Entrepreneurship Is One Sure Way to Start the Economy!

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New firms that are less than 5 years old create the most jobs in this country!

 

Small Business Ideas | Do You Have An Idea That Can Change The World?

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