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Jun 4, 2010
Business: Flying Without A Net — Entrepreneurs Starting Businesses During the Recession

By A. Finney

The five African Americans entrepreneurs featured in this story each started their business for different reasons, such as need resulting from losing a job, or family obligations that required a lot of their time. There is one theme that resonates throughout that drives them to succeed in running their businesses– they love the new-found freedom of being the boss. They love being creative, spontaneous and making their own business decisions. Also, they each seem to understand that it takes time before seeing a profit in their business, but because they are doing what they love, they know the money will follow....
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Sales is a metaphor for a number of things in life, sports, art, sex, you name it. But in the end when you look at sales as an art form, executed by an artist, you can't help but think that sales is itself a metaphor Read More

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Are there certain styles of marketing that just won't work in Business-To-Business promotion? As effective as the "But Wait...There's More" commercials are for a certain style of low price commodities, can using the same techniques damage your brand? Or does pushing those leads through your sales funnel to convert just a few customers at the end of the process make it all worthwhile Read More

At YoungEntrepreneur.com, we aren’t just bloggers; we’re blog readers too. And there are so many blogs out there that we love to follow that we collectively came up with the idea to give out awards to what we believe are the best blogs in various niches Read More

If your company is one of the millions of small businesses involved in social media, listen up. While there are hundreds of benefits associated with social networking, there are just as many possible pitfalls, especially if you’re leaving your online interactions up to uneducated employees Read More

According to Innovators Forum guest blogger Bob Goedjen of Silicon Valley SCORE, when we refer to barriers to entry for a business we are not talking about such issues as normally required start-up costs of business, but rather about those things that are inherent in the industry or selected market place that impede a small business or any business from entry. Read More

No matter what industry we’re in, we’re used to getting information the instant it becomes available, and being able to act on that info with the proverbial “few clicks” and to share it with a hashtag or two. We like to see what our “friends” are up to without having to ask them. We watch trending topics to gain insight about the world around us, as it happens. Media buyers can increase efficiency and market insight with this same real-time technology. Read More

The magnitude of benefits that a virtual assistant will bring to your business if often buried under the mere tag of cost-cutting advantages. Though saving your pocket is a major benefit of outsourcing it is often blown up, underplaying the other crucial benefits. Though the list can be exhaustive, let’s explore few vital benefits which make outsourcing a crucial business practice Read More