Do Membership Sites Make Money?
Friday, March 19, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: Financial Concerns, General Thoughts, The Entrepreneur School |
Tags: membership pay sites and profitability |
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The press is dying. Almost every newspaper in the US is losing money and many have closed. 
Their solution is to charge for memberships, to make their readers pay for access to articles. Some outlets (like the New York Times) are planning to charge by the article. You buy access to 50 articles, or 100 articles, over an
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Facebook Beats Google
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: Facebook, Marketing |
Tags: Facebook market share, Google market share |
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The Financial Times today reported than Facebook’s weekly traffic has surpassed Google’s. Note:
- Google makes tons of money, from ads, Facebook not so much. Facebook has just become profitable.
- The two sites control 14% of web traffic.
- Google has 7.03% market share.
- Facebook
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Quote of the Day – I didn’t say it!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: Entrepreneurship Quotes |
Tags: ben franklin on the poor |
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Guess which crack pot this is from!
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, I observed in different countries that the more public provisions were made for th
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Two Videos You Should See….
Monday, March 15, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: General Thoughts |
Tags: Coke Ads, social media video |
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I wanted to share two videos with you. One has been around awhile and talks about the growth of social media. Click here.
The other is a new Coke ad, supposedly inspired by social media, and designed to be shown on the net only. They say it will not air on TV. Click here.
Best.
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Simple Add-on Wrap Adds Marketing to Every Email
Saturday, March 13, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: Marketing |
Tags: Email Marketing |
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Wrapmail, a Florida based start-up, has come up with a really cool technology that allows every email you send to look like a full blown webpage with marketing possibilities. Now, when you send an email it contains just the message, 
your words, and perhaps an attach
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Top 5 Reasons you make More Money as an Entrepreneur
Friday, March 12, 2010 | Written by Erik Rostad
Posted under: Financial Concerns, Total Entrepreneurial Activity |
Tags: corporate america, entrepreneur income, working for yourself |
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Why is it that you have more potential to make money as an entrepreneur or small business owner than you do working for the man? Here are my top 5 reasons.
1. You Obtain All Money from a Project
Chris Hanks, faculty member of The Entrepreneur School, often cites the stat that says you must generate 3 times as much money as you make at a company. If your salary is $100k a year, you must be bringing in $300k of business. This pays for your health insurance, supplies, and profit for the
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How to Know If Your Business Idea Is a Home Run + How to Decide Which Project to Green Light or Do You Have a Hog?
Thursday, March 11, 2010 | Written by Lana Kravtsova
Posted under: Creativity and Ideation, Entrepreneurship Stories |
Tags: good business idea, good to great, hedgehog principle, Jim Collins, successful business idea |
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Note: This is a guest post by Lana Kravtsova from Daring Clarity.
How do you know which idea, project, gig, client to give a green light to and which not even bother researching further? How do you get clear on which business model, product or service are really going to make you rich, happy and fulfilled and which are going to drain your energy and suck your time leaving your soul empty and hurting.
How do you stay on purpose and say “yes
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Should You Be an Entrepreneur? A Test
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: Business Ownership, General Thoughts, Risk |
Tags: entrepreneur test, should you be an entrepreneur |
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Daniel Isenberg, an entrepreneurship professor at Babson College, developed a Entrepreneur Test, to help you find out if you should be an entrepreneur. Answer yes or no, with honesty……
- I don’t like being told what to do by people who are less capable than I am.
- I like challenging myself.
- I like to win.
- I like being my own boss.
- I always look for new and better ways to do things.
- I like to question conventional wisdom.
- I like to get people together in order to get things done.
- People get excited by m
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Why the Economy Still Sucks……
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | Written by Jim Beach
Posted under: Financial Concerns, Government |
Tags: economy |
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This is from Bill Dunkelberg of the National Federation of Independent Business:
“The horizon is filled with cost unknowns, from healthcare to cap and trade to yawning deficits and the need to come to grips with them, from paid family and medical leave to card check, from expiration of the Bush tax cuts to state decisions about their finances. Washington cannot expect small business owners, facing difficult economic circumstances anyway, to commit themselves to investing in new employees or equipment and vehicles without acknowledging and revealing the policy-inspired costs that w
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Website Font Transformation
Monday, March 8, 2010 | Written by Erik Rostad
Posted under: Website Design |
Tags: cufon fonts, search engine optimization, seo, Website Design |
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Until recently, there has been a major design limitation for website designers who care about creating a website optimized for the search engines. When you view a website on your computer, the browser can only use fonts located within your hard drive. So if a font is called and the computer doesn’t have it, the next font in the list of usable fonts is utilized. This can have disastrous effects on the look of a page as fonts different in sizes and spacing.
Histori
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