Seven pitfalls to avoid when running a family business
Entrepreneurship is rarely easy but also having family in the mix can add multiple layers of complexity—barriers and challenges that your...
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How to make money with a blog
So, you want to get rich off a blog. Maybe you’ve seen pictures of Markus Frind, founder of free online dating site Plenty of Fish, holding up his...
Seven ways to create your own success
[caption id="attachment_20360" align="alignleft" width="200"] Rob Nelson, founder and CEO of Grow.[/caption] Most entrepreneurs do not start out...
How to assess an online money-making idea
According to Google, in December of 2012, 1.44 million people searched on some variation of the phrase “make money online.” Maybe you even found...
The need for speed in startups: How content analysis can create a more confident path for success
The rise of big data, business intelligence and analytics tools of all types are creating incredible strategic new options for modern day startups....
How to apply poker strategy to business: Numbers, strategy and intuition
The idea of taking lessons from a game often thought to depend on luck and risk-taking, and applying them to business, may seem like an unlikely one....
Startup Marketing: Jingle sells – How to adapt mobile marketing campaigns for the 2015 holiday season
When people start winding down at the end of the year looking forward to the holidays, marketers are gearing up. Q4 has always been the most...
How a scoreboard changed our company culture
Everyone wants to win. But how do you know if you are winning if you don’t know the score? Measuring key performance indicators is a game changer...
The seven scariest things to an entrepreneur
As Halloween approaches, small business and start up owners have named the seven things that scare them the most in the October 2015 SurePayroll...
Four ways to embrace transparency and make your business endearing to Millennials
Millennials are the the largest generation in the U.S., and by 2017 they will also have the greatest spending power. Millennials have consumption...
How to franchise your startup and what will separate you when you are launching your brand
Franchising your business as a smaller startup brand, if done properly, can be one of the most effective, cost efficient, and productive ways to...
Base your source of funding on company intention and goals
The stages of funding, it is said over and over, go as follows: Friends and family, then Angels, then venture capitalists. It’s a familiar...
