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

With all the advice I could possibly give you about your website, the one thing that is most overlooked is QUALITY CONTENT. If you make a bad product, you can't expect anyone to buy it. So why would you make a site full of unreadble, unrelevant, and unappealing content, and then expect anyone to read [...]

I got a notice last week for my 30th high school reunion. (Please keep the age jokes to yourself…)
I’m not sure if I’m going to go. I live 5 hours worth of air travel away, and have important meetings already scheduled on the same day.
Beyond that, I’m not sure how I really feel about it. My [...]

I've been lying awake at night… unable to sleep. It'll be 2:00 in the morning and I'll get up and walk around the house, attempting to tame a mind that is racing with ideas.
Does this happen to you?
To be a true entrepreneur, it should. World-renowned entrepreneurship expert Michael Gerber, author of "The E-myth", has a [...]

I had always thought CEOs were really busy people—at least too busy to be wasting their time on internet chat board. But apparently I was wrong! John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, proved himself to be the internet's most high-profiled troll recently. He anonymously posted to online chat boards, hyping up his own company and [...]

Over the past few posts I've written about the benefits of using email as a
marketing medium. Last time I talked about how you can use email to gain
instant feedback on products. You may not always know if people on the street
read your flyers, but you can always track how many customers open your email.
Email surveys [...]

It seems like everyone is an expert now. So how do you stand out from the crowd? By proving your knowledge in key places on the web so that you can be seen by potential business contacts!
What is an expert anyway?
There was this great graphic a while back on the blog "Creating Passionate Users", in [...]

The rockin' great
web team here at StartUpNation  has done it again. This time they've made the
Search Functionality on StartupNation.com something to be proud of. You can
search major sections of the site: Content, Blogs, Forums, Members,
Marketplace. And an Advanced Search will help you fine tune the results
even more.
For example, this morning I received a private message [...]

Last week I posted a short opinion discussing advertising funds and the benefits and drawbacks associated with them (as it relates to franchises, specifically). One of my responses asked about a start-up franchise vs. a more established brand and it sparked me to pull some information from our research.
We've polled over 40,000 franchisees from 320+ [...]

Thought leader Dave Bayless has a fascinating post on what he calls the Free Rider Problem. He posits that in a small company, everyone’s contribution is visible and makes a big difference, but as a company grows, an increasing number of slackers sneak in, eventually driving out the high performers and leading to the death of the [...]

The number one ground rule that I advise my 50+ clients to set is: pick an activity for your business that you love doing.
 
The way some 50+ folks assure that they will be starting a business that they love is to convert a hobby into a profit-producing enterprise.
 
This can be an intelligent way [...]