December, 2017
Four-Point Checklist for Turning Your Home Business into an eCommerce Site
With millions of eCommerce websites saturating the online market, it can be difficult to sift through good, bad, secure and unsecure websites. What is noticeable to eCommerce website goers, however, is a site’s poor design, high processing fees, overabundance of pop-ups and slow-loading webpages. These factors alone could be contributing [...]
How a Near-Death Experience Inspired This Entrepreneur to Change Her Career and Plug Into Her Purpose
How Success Happens is a podcast featuring polar explorers, authors, ultra marathoners, artists and more to better understand what connects dreaming and doing. Linda Lacina, Entrepreneur.com’s managing editor, guides these chats so anyone can understand the traits that underpin achievement and what fuels the decisions to push us [...]
Don't Apologize for Your Success — No One Else Does
The following excerpt is from Dr. Patti Fletcher’s book Disrupters: Success Strategies From Women Who Break the Mold. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Has anyone ever told you “You know, you only got that job because you’re a woman.” While I’ve never had it said to my face, I’ve [...]
Don't Even Think 'Merger' Without Taking These 5 Steps First
What was supposed to be a sunny $2 billion acquisition of U.S. television manufacturer Vizio by Chinese company LeEco went south when the latter had trouble coming up with the money. The deal reportedly included a $100 million fee should LeEco terminate the agreement, prompting Vizio to file a lawsuit. Vizio alleges that LeEco executives [...]
Top 4 Small Business Trends of 2018
With the end of 2017 in sight, everyone is getting ready for the new year. It’s an exciting time of year. People are wrapping up the old, and prepping for the new. Part of the fun of the new year is analyzing 2017 to help hypothesize and better prepare for what will happen in 2018. 2017 was a year of change and growth – from new [...]
How to Cash in on the Legalization of Marijuana
In the past year the “green fever” stirred a lot of emotions on all sides, but nobody can deny that 2017 was definitely the year to start investing into cannabis and potentially develop a business with very little effort. With the recreational legalization going into effect in Canada in summer 2018, many investors started seeing [...]
50 Work-From-Home Jobs Paying as Much or a Lot More Than the Average American Salary
There was a time when working from home was a pipe dream. Thanks to technology like Slack, there’s been a surge of legit jobs you can do from home. Whether that’s working remotely for a company or starting your own business there’s no shortage of work-at-home opportunities. Here are 50 work from home jobs that most make above the average [...]
Quick Tips You Can Use to Improve Your Sales Technique
In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Kate Volman interviews award-winning author, speaker and entrepreneur Tim S. Marshall. Marshall, who is perhaps best known as a salesmen, gives some tips you can use to improve your own technique and make more sales for your business. For example, Marshall says that you shouldn’t consider [...]
What to Do When You're Ready to Sell Your Business
In this video with Entrepreneur Network partner Business Rockstars, 1-800-Dentist founder Fred Joyal breaks down quickly what a business owner should consisder and do before selling a company. His first piece of advice is to get a smart lawyer who will be able to tell you exactly what will happen after the sale is made — you might [...]
Why This Entrepreneur Broke Up With His Biggest Client
Introducing our new podcast, Problem Solvers with Jason Feifer, which features business owners and CEOs who went through a crippling business problem and came out the other side happy, wealthy, and growing. Feifer, Entrepreneur’s editor in chief, spotlights these stories so other business can avoid the same hardships. Listen below [...]