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Interview with Hugh Mason, Co-founding Partner, Pembridge Partners LLP
Website: www.pembridge.net Title: Partner Industry: Finance Type of company: We provide finance and advice to help marketing, media and technology businesses grow, Year founded: 2001 Number of employees: 10 Location: London, Singapore Questions: What is the startup story behind Pembridge Partners LLP? A bunch of us who’d been there and done it before in terms […]
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Starting a Business While Still Employed
Just because you’re already employed doesn’t mean you don’t have the dream of starting up and owning your own business. But many people don’t have the luxury of being able to walk away from their “golden handcuffs” and devote themselves full time to a business. At least not right away. Many people choose to start […]
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Small Business Grants
You’ve probably heard the hype about all the free money that the government has stashed away somewhere in a secret, undisclosed location to give away to small businesses. Remember those commercials with Matthew Lesko, the screaming nerd in a suit covered with question marks? He was hawking his book that was supposed to be full […]
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Fifteen Artistic WordPress Themes
If your business is art, design, writing or any other creative endeavor, you want a blog that reflects your style and gives visitors to your site a whole different experience than they would have at a tech blog or a mommy blog. That’s why I’ve picked out fifteen gorgeous (and free!) artistic WordPress blogs templates […]
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Making the Most of Your Affiliate Networks
If you have any kind of Pay Per Click or Pay Per Action advertising on your blog, you’re already familiar with affiliate networks. Basically, these organizations offer individual website owners and bloggers the opportunity to place ads from a huge range of companies—from Amazon.com to small independent retailers—on their webpages. The affiliate network assigns a […]
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Small Business Startup Myths
Millions of people dream of starting up their own business: of being their own boss, making it big, and having a company that that they can point to as their life’s work. But the realities of starting up a small business are sometimes overshadowed by myths which make it difficult to deal with the real challenges […]
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Ten Online Tools Your Business Should Be Using
There are new and exciting business tools being developed every day. These can help you improve your productivity and open up entirely new channels for your business to thrive online. While there are hundreds of these kinds of applications available, I’ve handpicked for you my top ten favorites: 1. Exploratree: http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ Mind mapping is a […]
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Why Every Business Needs a Blog
Last weekend I was at a small social function mixing it up with several people who I didn’t know very well. Inevitably we started talking about what we do for a living, and I volunteered that I’m an entrepreneur and a blogger. This caused several raised eyebrows. One woman, a doctor, asked me incredulously: “You […]
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Bringing in Blog Traffic With Micro Niches
Today I’d like to talk to you about a technique for generating more search engine traffic. This is something I stumbled on in my own blogging and I am shocked at how well it works. Obviously it isn’t fool-proof, but if it is done right, you will see a huge amount of supplemental traffic coming […]
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Interview With Seth Godin
I had the great pleasure and opportunity to interview Seth Godin. SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin is author of ten books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. His books have been translated into more than 20 […]
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