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How to Pave Your Path to Greatness
Whatever you do, don’t be quick to give up. If you are ever to succeed at anything, you need determination. If you don’t succeed the first time, try again. Do whatever it takes to get your project or venture off the ground.
5 Best eCommerce Role Models
The Internet has created a new world with seeming infinite potential for commercial endeavors. However, business models for ecommerce differ from traditional practices. Five ecommerce companies, though, have hit upon winning practices that can serve as role models for new startups and established businesses alike.
One Simple Copywriting Tip for Startups: Highlight Benefits, Not Features
From afar, copywriting your own website content seems easy enough. After all, you think, no one knows more about your business than you. If you’ve already tried it, chances are you’ve realized it’s a lot tougher than it looks.
Discover How Great Leaders Communicate
Whether you’re leading your own team or an entire company, solid communication skills are an absolute must. It sounds obvious, but have you taken the time to analyze and work on what areas of communication are necessary to move your startup in a powerful direction?
How to Come Up with a Killer Idea for an App (And Get it Made)
Creating a mobile app and selling it through Google Play or iTunes is undoubtedly one of the best ways to make money online, and has incredibly low barriers to entry with a disproportionately large potential pay-off.
Cash Isn’t King: 4 Tips for Employee Retention
Employee retention is a hot topic as the economy slowly improves and employees’ job options are increasing. Lucky for bootstrapped startups, cash isn’t king when it comes to employee retention.
Why Kickstarter Campaigns Fail
Plenty of entrepreneurs have found success with their crowdfunding campaigns. Failure though, is always a possibility—even when the end is in sight and it seems to be a sure thing. Crooked Bottle, an aspiring local brewbub, learned that lesson the hard way.
Cheap Market Research Methods for Startups
In the startup world there exists the myth of the “perfect idea.” Many entrepreneurs become so caught up in pursuit of this mythical event that they never take any action on the seemingly mundane or unoriginal ideas that they do have.
Could You Improve Your Ecommerce Site?
Ecommerce sites have grown immensely in popularity over the past few years with companies like eBay and Amazon dominating the field. That being said, many smaller companies that are just starting out tend to fall to the wayside in the shadow of these giants.
Osmosis Streamlines Projects into More Billable Work
Work without pay? Unless you’re a masochist or working for charity, nothing could be worse. Yet professionals put in a lot of effort all the time drafting proposals, dealing with projects run amok, and battling to collect payment, with nothing extra to show for their energy spent. Just part of the job? No. There’s a better way to do things.