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8 Keys for Work at Home Success

Posted on 22. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Working your own hours in your pajamas whenever you feel like it and never having to leave your house – and being paid for it – sounds pretty fantastic to most people! Unfortunately, working from home is not necessarily all that simple. Sure, there is the advantage of forever avoiding rush hour traffic, but there [...]

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How to Use Foursquare for Business – 8 Smart Tips

Posted on 20. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Rumor has it that social media will overtake conventional marketing within the decade. Think about it. When deciding where to take a date for a nice dinner or using a new accountant, are you more likely to take the word of a paid advertisement or the word of your unbiased friend? If you say paid [...]

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5 Blingy Things Your Website Just Doesn’t Need

Posted on 15. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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These days having a great website is pretty much essential for any type of business to succeed. Even companies without any apparent need for a webpage a few years ago, now run the risk of falling the way of the dinosaurs without one. I mean really, when was the last time you saw a phone [...]

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Busting the 4 Most Common Copywriting Myths

Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Have an uncanny ability to spice any conversation with your storytelling skills or a sparkling power to bust out an A paper for a 400 level college course in 3 seconds flat? Well, copywriting may not necessarily be for you. Writing copy means the writer must follow directions – then ignore them as needed, all [...]

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Money From Your RSS? A Feedburner Alternative Worth a Closer Look

Posted on 30. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own. Our relationship with RevResponse goes back to 2008, when we posted a review of their B2B Publisher Network. We like these guys, and we’re always interested in what they’re up to. So when we heard about a new product they’re rolling out that’s a [...]

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11 Proven Keys for Getting Your Emails Read

Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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You’ve read about the importance of having a strong email list, so you’ve worked hard to build up a big list, and you’re ready to start marketing to them. It’s wonderful if you can get your emails out to a broad audience, but there’s more to effective email marketing than just having a lot of [...]

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Will an Incubator Help Your Business Take Off? The Short Answer: It Depends.

Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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It sounds like a match made in heaven. Entrepreneurs with good ideas but limited capital and experience meet an accelerator/incubator filled with low-cost space and startup services along with knowledgeable experts to mentor them through. Entrepreneurs get support and a community builds a stronger business environment and more jobs. It can work that way, but [...]

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JoinUniverse.com: A Lesson in Flexibility

Posted on 18. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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Determination is often a good thing, but if you’re so focused on executing your original vision that you fail to adjust your plans when necessary, it can mean failure in short order. So one of the most important traits an entrepreneur can have is flexibility. True flexibility means being able to quickly adapt to the [...]

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How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by Adam Toren.

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If you’re between the ages of 18 and 29, you’re part of “Gen-Y.” And as part of that generation, you make up a large part of the 750 million+ Facebook community. A new study, conducted by Millennial Branding, looked at more than 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com, and the results were very interesting – to say the [...]

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5 Tips for Making 2012 Your Entrepreneurial Year

Posted on 26. Dec, 2011 by Adam Toren.

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If you’ve been thinking about starting a business, 2012 is a great year to make it happen. And if you’re already in business for yourself, you can make 2012 the year you take it to the next level. You might think that the economy being in the dumps will be an obstacle and make starting [...]

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What’s the Deal with QR Codes?

Posted on 22. Nov, 2011 by Adam Toren.

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If you’ve been anywhere recently – online or in the real world – you’ve seen them around. They look kind of weird, and if you don’t know what they’re for, they make no sense. They are Quick Response (QR) Codes, and they’re quickly becoming a mainstay of marketers everywhere. If you have a business and [...]

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Blogtrepreneur Interview: Shahed Khan of Viatask.com

Posted on 07. Nov, 2011 by Adam Toren.

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He’s impressive by just about any measure, but for a teen working on his first startup, Shahed Khan is worth taking a closer look at. Shahed is the founder of Viatask, an application that’s launching 11/22/2011 and has been called Craigslist for chores. There’s no doubt in my mind that his is a name we’ll [...]

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What Makes Family Businesses Thrive? The Family Business Infographic

Posted on 26. Oct, 2011 by Adam Toren.

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Is your family the type that’s close-knit and supportive? Or is the dynamic more like something out of a daytime soap opera? Even if it’s the former, and Thanksgiving dinners don’t ever result in bodily injury, that doesn’t mean you have what it takes to go into business as a family. Working with family can [...]

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5 Ideas for Eliminating Startup Funk

Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by Adam Toren.

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Let’s get real – startups are not for the faint of heart. With any startup, there will be plenty of triumphs and challenges along the way. Your biggest challenge might be not being overly confident in successful times, and not becoming too despondent when facing setbacks. You’re bound to, at one time or another, get [...]

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