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One of the first questions to ask, and the hardest to answer, before starting any business venture is “Is starting a business right for me?” By starting your business after some serious self reflection you'll be getting off on the right foot and giving your business a chance at success from day one. Read More

In July I did a feature on Guy Laliberté (Stick To Your Dream - Guy Laliberté), founder of Cirque Du Soleil. I wanted to expand on that profile today by sharing how Guy compares running business to playing poker (Guy is also a skilled poker player in his free time). Read More

The results are in from our most recent poll! I asked you what the best business advice was that you ever received and you replied in full force! Here are the results below. Thank you everyone for participating and I hope you find kernels of wisdom here that you can apply to your business: Read More

It's no secret that anchor text of your links help increase your prominence in Google's rankings. The simple idea here is that instead of having your links say “click here” or “more info”, you should put your keywords in the the anchor text to increase your relevancy score for those keywords. Read More

Well America has a new President, Barack Obama. Some of Obama's plans for small business include: - Increase the minimum wage and index the rate to inflation so that it goes up every year - Wants to eliminate all capital gains taxes for new business start-ups - Give a $500 credit to business owners to offset the self-employment tax Read More

On Thursdays I usually discuss Google and ways to get your website ranked at the top of the search engine. Today I wanted to change course a little bit and talk about Alexa. If you're not familiar with the company, they've created a ranking system to help display how popular websites are in relation to each other. For example, YoungEntrepreneur Read More

Pricing, the all important business decision that can make or break you. Determining how to price your products and services deserves more than a little bit of your attention, but the good news is it doesn't have to be as difficult... Read More

Web analytics fascinate me. I can spend hours looking at trends in visitors, referring sources and content. It helps me set and achieve goals and identify popular content so I can create more. But, it always leaves me wanting more. Especially when it comes to Google and social media, which are always at the top of our referring sources list. Unfor Read More

A few years ago, I did some consulting for a business owner. We were throwing around some ideas for PR and word of mouth marketing. (I didn't end up working with him, for a variety of reasons.) He was dead sure he was creating the next Amazon. He'd built his product from scratch. He had some experience in the same business as his customers, and he Read More

Some facets of SEO continue to wax and wane in their importance. Ditto with the various aspects of content optimization .There have been times when "content might not exactly be the king". Like in the present scene, it is incoming links on your page that are of prime significance for SEO. That doesn't devalue the content on your page. For a sim Read More