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When you are perfecting your marketing strategy, you need to know how your customers think and what it takes to influence them.  Human beings are stubborn creatures who are reluctant to change their perceptions.  When you market to them, you need to know what it takes to change their minds. Read More

Why is it that some businesses fail in the best of economic times, while others succeed and thrive even though they were started during an economic downturn?  Sure, we can sometimes point to regional conditions, industry trends, and other factors that are largely out of the entrepreneur’s control.. 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

When McKenzie Tuttle walked down the aisle to say “I do” to her husband-to-be Jeff Bezos, she thought she was marrying into a secure future. At the time, Bezos was in his 30s and serving as Vice President of an investment firm in New York City. It was a job he liked — and one that paid well — but Bezos couldn't shake this crazy idea from his head; Read More

Dave Thomas starred in 652 commercials for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, more than any other person in television history. But, he wasn't just that friendly face you saw on TV with his white shirts and red ties; Thomas built his multi-billion dollar fast-food restaurant chain from the ground up, earning him a reputation as one of the most s Read More

The average customer visits their local Costco 22 times a year. The company has become one of the largest in the U.S., with 473 outlets and more than $50 billion in sales, and is also the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world. Its founder and CEO, Jim Sinegal, has been called the Sam Walton of the 21st century for his low-key style Read More