January, 2017
AT&T At The Lift Shines The Spotlight On DIRECTV At Sundance 2017
Actress Halston Sage attends AT&T At The Lift during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo by Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for AT&T) Every year, Sundance Film Festival proves to be a marketing goldmine for brands lucky enough to sponsor one of the many star-studded parties and lounges. Over the first weekend of Sundance 2017, [...]
4 Qualities That Make for a Great Startup City
Often, one of the first questions an entrepreneur has to answer is “Where should I start my company?” Silicon Valley and New York are obvious answers but no longer the uncontested giants they once were. Late last year, my team decided to figure out what exactly made for a great place to start a tech business. The result was [...]
The Goal Standard Challenge: The Productivity 'Secret' Needed to Make Progress on Your Goal
Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » Before the official start of The Goal Standard Challenge on Jan. 30, productivity expert Chris Winfield discusses how to tap into the power of continuous improvement and movement on a daily basis to help achieve your goal. In his first [...]
15 Home-Based Retirement Businesses
Savvy Business Start-Ups for 50+ Individuals Though it is illegal to discriminate in hiring individuals who are forty years or older, studies reveal prospective employers have been reluctant to hire older, jobless workers in these slow economic times because they believe they will have to pay them higher wages, or that they may lack [...]
9 Sales and Marketing Tips for Startups
Marketing done right can be an incredible boon for your business’s net income. Done wrong, however, it can feel like throwing money into a raging bonfire. Because small business owners have to be whatever their small business needs — all the time — it can be difficult to master all the nuances that go into sales or marketing. [...]
Every week as [...]10 Money Habits That Will Help You Get Serious About Prosperity
Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » The power of habit can be quite interesting. Rather than create 2017 resolutions that may not stick, a good alternative is to develop positive habits this year. Especially when the category is financial life. So, make it your goal to form [...]
Entering a Small Business Funding Contest
The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Prizes from business contests run the gamut. A seemingly infinite number of local and business-school competitions offer small-change awards of $5,000 to $15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out [...]
3 Ways to Make Your Home Business Seem More Professional
Running a home business takes all the willpower, expertise and professionalism of running a more traditional small business, but not all clients and customers understand this. Not used to this slightly unorthodox approach to business, some will take your business more seriously if it is coated in the traditional trappings of business [...]
7 Strategies the Wealthy Follow to Get Richer
Reader Resource Join Entrepreneur’s The Goal Standard Challenge and make 2017 yours. Learn more » The rich are getting richer as the median household income in this country not only fails to rise, but has stagnated. There are people that are making less than $44,000 a year and struggling to live. Grit your teeth and bemoan your [...]