Posts Tagged ‘Mistakes’
Don’t Make These 4 Common Tax Mistakes
As a business owner, one time of the year that you might not look forward to is tax time. After all, not only do you probably not want to have to pay in any taxes, but you might be a bit stressed out about the whole process of filling out and filing your tax forms.…
Read MoreAvoid These Mistakes Sending Bulk SMS Messages
I see small business owners making the same mistakes over and over again when trying to send bulk SMS messages to their customers. These mistakes are obviously hurting their ability to connect with customers and prospects! Yet, they keep making these mistakes over and over again. Let me be blunt: If you’re making these mistakes…
Read More13 Red Flags to Avoid in Your Investor Funding Pitch
After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Others, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent…
Read MoreAre You Guilty of Picking Things Apart?
It seems to be human nature to pick things apart. We may be looking at a new prospecting or marketing program, we may be looking at a deal strategy, we may be looking at a new organizational structure. Whatever the level we act, we have a propensity to look for faults, or what could go…
Read More10 Obstacles to Product Adoption That Kill Businesses
When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. They are devastated when their business growth never starts or stalls, and they have no idea how to get it moving…
Read More5 Easy Ways YouTube Videos Can Keep You Out of Trouble
The beautiful part about the Web is how convenient it has made the purchasing process for your business. Unfortunately, that is also where the nightmares can begin. If you understand the power of YouTube that can be put behind you very quickly. Here’s how: Keyword Research Instead of just turning on your video recorder, you…
Read More6 SEO Mistakes to Avoid When Launching a New Site
Small business owners and webmasters often forget SEO when building a new website The process of optimizing a website for the search engines begins with the first letters of code that get written for the site. SEO (search engine optimization) is not an afterthought. It has to be planned for and implemented from the very…
Read MoreFinding Dumb Investors is a Dumb Idea
Are you looking for dumb investors? “How can I find investors who don’t take much equity?” “How can I find investors who don’t interfere with my running the business? I first posted my objections to this kind of thinking nine years ago in Dumb Investors Dumb Idea, one of the earliest posts on this blog. That…
Read MoreDon’t Get Fooled by These Legitimate Investor Tricks
A few weeks ago Rus Yusupov, founder of Vine, found out that after a $30 million dollar sale in 2012, Twitter was shutting down Vine. The Tweet that followed sums up many startup founders egregious feelings towards investors. When you hear a founder saying something like this after a company sale, it’s a big red…
Read More6 Untold Secrets to Increase Your Productivity Levels
Wondering why some workers are able to churn out gargantuan amounts of work, day after day, without ever feeling tired, while you can’t stop complaining about the work load? There might have been times when you felt a certain urge to ask them what was the key to their miraculous abilities. However, if you follow…
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