Entrepreneurship Articles

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Christian Fea @ Thursday, 11th December 2008 @ 12:02 PM

Is relationship marketing a key element in your marketing strategy? If not, it\'s time to re-evaluate on how you spend your marketing budget. Businesses typically spend 80% of their marketing dollars on the pursuit of new customers in an attempt to gain new business, yet this generally does not result in an 80% increase in sales. Building existing customer relationships and expanding customer retention is an important strategic aspect to consider. A new and growing business needs to ... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Mike Lawson @ Saturday, 6th December 2008 @ 9:51 PM

When most people encounter a new term, they usually do one of two things. They either ignore it or find a definition for it as well as some important information about it. If you have started a business, or plan to, you may wish to learn more about the definition of entrepreneurs. Do you fall into their category? Most dictionaries offer a similar, specific definition for entrepreneur: a person in business that finances or initiates an emerging commercial enterprise. In a nutshell, they ar... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Janet Giacoma @ Thursday, 4th December 2008 @ 11:39 AM

There\'s a new paradigm in our economy today. Women are beginning to earn more than men as their focus seems to shift from building a family to building personal wealth. This trend certainly doesn\'t rule out starting and raising a family at some time in the woman\'s life. But it delays it in favor of creating a personal net worth that provides the woman with total financial independence and security, without a reliance on the income of a spouse. This is a huge change fr... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Chris Jensen @ Friday, 28th November 2008 @ 3:04 AM

The reason they don\'t work is not always because the author didn\'t know his business or was a scam artist. The strategy may very well have worked once. But once many people know a strategy, it ceases to be effective in the forex market. There are two primary methods of forex trading swing trades and day trades. Most experts will advise you to stay away from day trading. The volatility within a day is mostly random and can\'t be predicted. Therefore if you spend your money... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Janet Giacoma @ Wednesday, 26th November 2008 @ 3:08 PM

A new report, published by Andrew Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, indicates that young women are outearning their male counterparts in major urban areas. The trend is for these women to delay marriage and childbirth, allowing them to develop a career before settling down. This of course is a major change from previous generations, where the norm was for young women to marry and have children at a relatively young age, typically in their early twenties. The r... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Stevey McGeown @ Tuesday, 25th November 2008 @ 7:20 PM

The future for the Irish economy is bright for those who grasp the opportunities presented by the new world that we\'re all moving into, make no mistake about that. Now is truly a time of incredible transition. Yes, the internet arrived over 10 years ago, and the first crash has already occurred, and while some prospered and some didn\'t, the revolution has been pretty quiet. It happened quietly to begin with. Initially, the change that it represented wasn\'t compell... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Brad Semp @ Saturday, 22nd November 2008 @ 2:22 PM

One of the most powerful aspects of implementing systems in your business is the ability to bring about continuous improvement. There\'s a saying that \"what can measured, can be improved\" which highlights one of the key benefits of systems. When you implement a process - for instance, by preparing a cashmap, which documents the process from start to finish - you are NOT setting anything in stone. On the contrary, you are merely documenting the best currently known way of pr... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Brad Semp @ Saturday, 22nd November 2008 @ 2:21 PM

Many people who are unfamiliar with - or who are not sold on the concept of systemizing their business - believe that systems will stifle their creativity or freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth! By implementing systems in your business, you will actually free up both yourself and your staff to apply your and their creativity to those matters that require creative thinking... rather than requiring them to apply their minds to reinventing the wheel on routine tasks. Tak... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Brad Semp @ Saturday, 22nd November 2008 @ 2:05 PM

You\'ve probably heard these two, seemingly contradictory sayings: \"God is in the details\" and the \"Devil is in the details.\" Guess what - both are right! You see, it\'s the details - the little things - that often make all the difference. This is especially the case for businesses. It\'s those \"minor\" details that all add up to create a either a positive or negative customer experience... a quality or inferior product... and a successful or failing b... more...

Business » Entrepreneurship | By Steven Walters @ Friday, 21st November 2008 @ 8:00 AM

Finding the paid survey sites is both easy and difficult to do. While you can certainly do a search for \"paid surveys\" or \"online surveys\" through Google or another search engine, the results you get back may not always be as helpful as you would hope. It\'s likely that many of the results you get back are membership sites that require a payment to join. Otherwise, you need to go through hundreds of results to find all the good paid survey sites that you should be joinin... more...