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The Perils of Using Personal Credit Cards to Fund Your Business
In my last post, I talked about funding your business with your retirement account. Now while that may at first seem crazy, there are some cases it can work but you must be careful. Other ways people have funded their business have involved using their personal credit cards. Yes, you might have heard amazing stories ... -
The Dangers of Funding Your Business with Your Retirement Accounts
With the challenges of raising capital higher than in the past, many people are looking for alternative sources of financing to bridge some money gaps or even launch a new business. Many of you know that if you withdraw retirement funds prematurely and don’t pay it back by the end of the year, you will ... -
Brushing Up on Your Business Finances This Spring
As is tradition with the coming of the spring season, we’re all bent on cleaning our homes and making sure that things are as tidy and organized as possible. So too should businesses approach their finances. Isn’t it time for you to brush up on your current finance practices and make sure that they’re up-to-date? ... -
Using Google Alerts To Work For Your Small Business
Have you subscribed to Google Alerts before? If not, it’s a pretty useful service – using a Google account, you sign up for these email alerts that will notify you when a piece of content is published and indexed by the search engine. So for me, I’ve created a Google Alert for my name – ... -
Taking the Good & the Bad of Paid Search in 2009
In mid-2009, Forrester Research released a report entitled The Best and Worst of Paid Search in 2009. All this month, the theme we’re trying to promote is how to get your business found. One of the common parts of this is through paid search. In this report, Shar VanBoskirk examines the results of Forrester’s search ... -
Three SEO Practices You Need For Your Small Business
One of the most common forms of getting your business noticed online is through Search Engine Optimization. This is the program where you don’t spend any money buying ads or strategic placements, but essentially choose to optimize your content to have the search engines believe that your company is the authority on certain keywords. It ... -
Kevin Rose Gives His Tips On Being An Entrepreneur
Late last week, I came across this great article on tech publication ReadWriteWeb covering a talk given by Digg founder Kevin Rose. During this year’s Webstock conference in New Zealand, Rose gave, what Elyssa Pallai (author of the ReadWriteWeb article) called insightful, tips for entrepreneurs. If you don’t know Rose, then he’s probably one that can ... -
Finding Businesses with Geo-Location Services, But What’s The Larger Implication Here?
During Social Media Week here in San Francisco earlier this month, an interesting panel was held at the offices of Stage Two. The topic of the evening was about geo-location device and technology and what lies ahead in the future of these services. Among the stars on the dais, BT/Ribbit Vice President of Web Services ... -
Building Links on a Budget
One key element of search engine optimization Be getting links to point towards your site. The more links referring people to you, the better your standings and relevancy with search engines. Shows that there’s something about your site and can be a big factor in determining your ownership of that content. Link marketing, as it’s ... -
Twitter Marketing for Your New Business
If you are doing any kind of online marketing these days and social media is in the conversation, you have probably heard of Twitter. However, knowing about it is very different than knowing how to use it. The basic premise is to say what you are up to in 140 characters. Yeah, that is very ...
The Perils of Using Personal Credit Cards to Fund Your Business
In my last post, I talked about funding your business with your retirement account. Now while that may at first seem crazy, there are some cases it can work but you must be careful. Other ways people have funded their business have involved using their personal credit cards. Yes, you might have heard amazing stories ...
The Dangers of Funding Your Business with Your Retirement Accounts
With the challenges of raising capital higher than in the past, many people are looking for alternative sources of financing to bridge some money gaps or even launch a new business. Many of you know that if you withdraw retirement funds prematurely and don’t pay it back by the end of the year, you will ...
Brushing Up on Your Business Finances This Spring
As is tradition with the coming of the spring season, we’re all bent on cleaning our homes and making sure that things are as tidy and organized as possible. So too should businesses approach their finances. Isn’t it time for you to brush up on your current finance practices and make sure that they’re up-to-date? ...
Using Google Alerts To Work For Your Small Business
Have you subscribed to Google Alerts before? If not, it’s a pretty useful service – using a Google account, you sign up for these email alerts that will notify you when a piece of content is published and indexed by the search engine. So for me, I’ve created a Google Alert for my name – ...
