March, 2019
How to Make Your MVP Truly Cost-Effective
Manual-first, then automation. March 23, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the best way for entrepreneurs to validate their assumptions about the viability of their business model. Taking the roadmapping approach and starting out by creating a MVP [...]
How You Can Build Long Lasting Customer Relationships
Here are three ways you can create a customer experience that will develop fans of your business for life. March 22, 2019 3 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from [...]
How to Attract the Kind of Positive 'Press' That Also Boosts Your Bottom Line
Donations. Green Initiatives. Even building wells in Africa can get your company the positive attention you crave. March 22, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Despite the traditional saying that “All press is good press,” anyone who runs a business knows that isn’t really true. In fact, it [...]
How These 2 Brothers Started a Company Together While Living in Different Cities
This is the story of how theChive.com got started. March 22, 2019 1 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Brothers John Resig and Leo Resig founded Chive Media Group and its flagship site, theChive.com, in November 2008, with no capital and a lot of hustle. Leo was living in Chicago (the [...]
Why Goal-Setting Systems Have to Be Simple
March 22, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When I start working with a new team, the first thing I do is see how their internal processes have been run so far. Then, I’ll try to throw as much of it as I can out the window. I believe most systems can be made less complicated and [...]
The Story Behind the Coffee Company That Fuels Google, Microsoft and Facebook
Verve Coffee, started in 2007, operates 12 cafes, has a hefty B2B business and recently launched a canned beverage. March 21, 2019 7 min read What do Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Airbnb and Salesforce have in common? Plenty of things, of course, but one odd detail is that many of their employees are drinking Verve Coffee. The company, [...]
How to Use 'the Law of Reciprocity' to Build Better Business Relationships
Building trust with customers is key, of course. But how do you do that? March 21, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As an entrepreneur, you have countless relationships you need to manage on a daily basis. There are your employees. There are the vendors who provide needed support services to [...]
The Hands-Off Method of Online Marketing That's Both Fast and Easy
You don’t have to do all the work yourself when it comes to marketing your passive income site. That’s where affiliate marketing comes in. March 21, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The following excerpt is from Nightingale-Conant’s book The Power of Passive Income: Make Money [...]
The 5 Likeliest Reasons Your Business Isn't Generating Sales
Startup founders must do more than create a business and a product. They have to create an internal sales process to get it to the right customer. March 20, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When you started the business, you obviously weren’t envisioning an overnight success with orders [...]