Matthew Toren
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Matthew Toren is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, investor and co-founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com. He is co-author, with his brother Adam, of Kidpreneurs.org, BizWarriors.com and Small Business, BIG Vision: Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right (Wiley).
You sit down at your computer fully armed. You’ve got a cup of coffee to your right, your brainstorming notebook to your left, and your browser is opened to your favorite online dictionary. You place your hands on your spanking new keyboard and take a breath, ready to let the great ideas flow from the […]
Continue readingDo you have a great product available that you don’t have time to market? Maybe you wrote an e-book in your spare time. Maybe you designed a program that is valuable to other entrepreneurs. Maybe you’d just like to wake up to fresh sales with your morning coffee. Of course, marketing your own products or […]
Continue readingChances are you’re reading this from the comfort of your office chair or possibly using a tablet and relaxing in a comforter. How much time do you spend sitting everyday? Think about it realistically and come up with an answer. If you’re an entrepreneur that works at home or even in an office, chair time […]
Continue readingShare this image with your social networks![social_share] Terms like energy get thrown around all the time and have consequently taken on multiple meanings. You need energy to get out of bed in the morning. Use positive energy to make the life you’ve dreamed of. The world is in an energy crisis. Whatever energy really is, […]
Continue readingAs you build your business, you’ll eventually come across a job you don’t feel confident performing or simply don’t have time for. Beginning to hire employees is an essential step toward growth, but what if you lack the time or finances to hire a regular employee? Don’t despair, the web has made it remarkably easy […]
Continue readingQuick – what’s the most important outcome of your marketing campaign? Facebook likes? Retweets? A letter from your grandmother delivered in the mail congratulating you on your remarkable advertising efforts accompanied by cookies? No. As comforting and as delicious as the cookies may be, the primary purpose of your marketing is conversion. Have your efforts […]
Continue readingWhat does search engine optimization mean for online entrepreneurs in 2012? In short, it means the same thing as it did five years ago. Webmasters and content creators may have come up with new techniques in an effort to keep pace with Google updates like Panda and Penguin. These, however, are simply tactics in what […]
Continue readingShare this image with your social networks![social_share] An eager adventurer trekked through the jungle seeking the legendary tomb of treasure. He was told to follow the river. Days passed and the journey stretched on. The adventurer stayed close to the river but was dismayed to see that it disappeared into a dark cave. He went […]
Continue readingShare this image with your social networks![social_share] Another way to put this very useful quote is, “Ready, Fire, Aim!” Not to say that you go off and start making decisions without any forethought, but better to take action than sit around waiting for something to happen. You have choices… Wait for Opportunity Generally speaking, there […]
Continue readingTweets can get you the traffic that you desperately need, but composing that perfect tweet can be tricky – especially today when the Twitterverse is bigger than ever, with millions of people posting billions of tweets every day. How can you set yourself apart? How can you prevent yourself from being just white noise? Here […]
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