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).
Being an entrepreneur certainly has its perks. But having the ability to be your own boss requires at least a dozen strong qualities in order to succeed. Cultivating these twelve characteristics of a successful entrepreneur will help ensure eventual success. 1. Honesty – In the world of being in the business of you, honesty is […]
Continue readingI don’t know about you, but when I think about being self-employed, the first thing I think about is how nice it would be to make my own hours. I would imagine I would kiss that 9 to 5 goodbye and sleep in just a little longer. After all, as long as I get the […]
Continue readingIn the real world, rarely is an entrepreneur with a great idea also a savvy developer capable of bringing his creation to life. More often than not, the visionary is required to navigate the foreign realms of software and web development, and finally, enlist the help of a professional. The collision of these two worlds […]
Continue readingA strong online presence is necessary for any small business. A strong presence translates to plenty of content. Many small business owners engage is time-wasting activities — uploading content to their webpages, blogs and other media, sharing sites, while reaping little or no benefit from their hard work. Nothing is more frustrating than that! As […]
Continue readingBetween the absolute necessity of a smart phone these days, coupled with the prevalence of tablet PCs and iPads, a website’s ability to be searched via a mobile device has shot through the roof. Now is the time to optimize the way that various search engines are able to find your website, as mobile searches […]
Continue readingFrom its start in 2009, Tinychat has grown beyond most expectations. The Internet chat service that allows users to talk with up to eleven other people at a time now has over 20 million registered users, up from only one million two years ago. Tinychat operates on the freemium approach, which allows users to sign […]
Continue readingA friend of mine was looking at online guitar lessons for her husband’s birthday. Janine is a serious geek with a career in computers that involves over a decade and budgets in the millions. She is also a serious shopper, having learned hand-in-hand with her mother as they ran from store to store. She told […]
Continue readingWhen life happens, entrepreneurs don’t have the option to call in sick or ask for some time off. Whether you’re sick, have suffered a business setback, or just having a really bad day, an entrepreneur can’t usually just walk away for a period of time without damaging their business. But just because you’re self-employed doesn’t […]
Continue readingUnless you’ve got an IT professional on hand at all times, small business owners more frequently than not have to awkwardly don the hat of a web expert to keep their websites up and running. Even when the biggest publically traded companies have a fulltime staff of the top information technology professionals on hand, the […]
Continue readingFacebook advertising is one of the most powerful marketing tools many small business now have available right at their fingertips. The geniuses at Facebook have made advertising as simple or as complicated as you’d possibly like it to be depending on your preferences. Any business can throw up an ad on Facebook; they’ve really made […]
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