As we interact with entrepreneurs like you on a daily basis, we are often interested in hearing all your stories, be they (hopefully) success stories or tales of gloom and despondency! The very essence of an entrepreneur dictates that you have plenty of tenacity and spirit and many people believe that entrepreneurs are born, rather […]
Continue readingEbay has expanded from a humble start up to a company that boasts revenues of over $7.7 billion and a staff of some 15,000 people. People have just fallen in love with the concept of buying and selling and good old-fashioned auction tactics, around the clock and around the world. Many people have made small […]
Continue readingFor anyone involved in e-commerce, the product page is the most important of all. You will have spent considerable time and effort and engaged in a good process of education to attract your customer to this point. This represents the narrowest part of your sales funnel and all of your efforts have been directed at […]
Continue readingWhile there’s been precious little to be positive about during this most brutal of recessions, one of the brighter lights in the retail environment has been the continued growth of online marketing. The platform itself may also have suffered during the 2007 to 2009 “great recession,” but it has continued to see growth during the […]
Continue readingFacebook continues to square off against Twitter in a battle for supremacy in the social media world as each stakes its claim within this unfolding universe. While Twitter may be known for its more distinct messaging mantra and Facebook retains perhaps more of a structured approach, each is in the business of linking like with […]
Continue readingE-mail is at the same time a much loved and a much-maligned form of communication. It is one of the traditional methods of selling and has over the years produced great returns for marketers who seek to engage in a well thought out and structured communication strategy with highly targeted prospects. Social media, on the […]
Continue readingWhat’s necessary to become a truly successful young entrepreneur? The Brothers Adam and Matthew Toren, co-founders of YoungEntrepreneur.com, have stayed the course and prevailed in numerous business ventures throughout their lives. Together, they’ve consistently taken key steps leading to increasingly profitable paths in their highly successful careers, but surprisingly enough, it’s actually their early years […]
Continue readingAn interesting development has come from a line of communication between the newspaper industry and the mighty Google. As we know, the traditional newspaper business model has been in sharp decline and the industry has been frantically looking for alternative means of collecting revenue within the digital age. Some newspapers have tried their own micro-payment […]
Continue readingAdsense is one of the most popular ways for online marketers to achieve revenues. You are essentially becoming part of Google’s massive moneymaking machine and piggybacking on their proven understanding of what drives people to certain pages in the quest for certain types of information. Adsense is the opposite of Adwords or “pay per click,” […]
Continue readingWordPress is one of the best known blogging platforms on the Internet. It is highly respected and rightfully so. Search engine optimization experts recommend the platform over others and maintain that the major search engines, principally Google, “love” WordPress and may allocate additional ranking juice. WordPress has been around for some time but it can […]
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