Business Blogs: Trends, tips, and real-life anecdotes from industry experts.

For most people, the majority of emails we receive are junk. As a result, we’ve developed an unconscious little ritual when we open our in-boxes. It seems at first glance that we would look to the subject line of a message to decide whether or not to open it. However, recent studies have shown that [...]

A funny thing about being a new blogger is that I never know what is going to get people talking. My post on an easy-to-use Raid Array, which is designed to prevent loss of your important data, got lots of responses. A number of people pointed out that a RAID is no substitute for backing [...]

One of the things that sets my business apart from the competition is the name of my business – The Dippy Chick Company. There are a gazillion (well okay… hundreds) of companies out there that manufacture products similar to mine, but they are not very memorable. I am in the seasonings business and I honestly [...]

Passion is one of the signature traits of a successful entrepreneur, no doubt about it. (or as my father used to enjoy saying … “no boubt adout it!”) It’s the passion for what you’re doing that keeps you “up” and energetic and “going after it” consistently day after day.
Pushing yourself to the edge as a [...]

I have so much to do today, but the gods of entrepreneurism are not on my side. My car unexpectedly developed a crunchy noise, so I spent most of the morning waiting in a dealership wasting precious daycare time. The next thing I know, I am picking up the boys. My older one was supposed [...]

When it comes down to it, I believe there are really two different types of products you can sell on eBay.
1) Hot Commodities - DVDs, iPods, or maybe a Starbucks Espresso Machine
2) Unique Products - Custom jewelry, custom clothing or maybe a twist on a popular commodity, like bundling that espresso machine with 10 lbs. [...]

Last time, I talked about spam and how to avoid falling into the bulk folder. The trick is to make sure your email campaigns are entirely permission-based. You can do this by following a few simple steps:
Step One: Sign up for a permission-based email software package. IntelliContact Pro has a ton of advanced features for [...]

Whew! I have to say, although sales have been a little slow – as they always are this time of year – I seem as busy as ever. I’ve been working on a bunch of new products, and giving interviews and placing ads. I’m also trying to organize my house and office, which is a [...]

I’ve been sick with bronchitis the past 10 days. It kept me at home away from infecting my StartupNation teammates all last week. I’d work for a while and then lie on the couch for a while. After several days, anything on television was non-interesting. Reading wasn’t a good option. If I was well enough [...]

The new look and feel of StartupNation.com launched today with some major enhancements. The biggest and most visible is the new homepage. You can hover your mouse over 5 specially called out tabs just under the photo of Chief Startupologists Jeff & Rich Sloan, and unique content for each tab appears. The content for each [...]