21 Golden Rules of Entrepreneurship According to Jason Nazar

A big reason for starting this site was to show people that a business owner isn’t some special kind of person that has all the knowledge and tools at their disposal. Anyone can start a business, but not everyone can keep a business going if they aren’t committed to it and pushing themselves to work harder and learn more. While doing some research for an article I came across this great video by Jason Nazar CEO and Founder of DocStoc. Now the video...

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Whose Needs Are You Serving?

Last night while channel surfing I stumbled upon a reality show that caught my attention. While the show obviously reeked of scripted television its premise is what intrigued me and kept me watching. The premise focuses on helping under performing establishments such as restaurants and hotels by getting to the root of the cause for this. The show makes these small businesses ask the questions, whose needs are really being served? Is the primary...

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Leadership

It’s about noon when my boss walks over to my desk and asks me if I want to change my hours from 7:00am to 3:00pm to 3:00pm - 11:00pm. My response was a clear “no.” He retorted it would come with a title change and a pay raise, and I replied happily with a “YES!” He laughed and told me how he had finally gotten approval to promote me a promise he had made to me a little over a year ago when he first started. I had gotten the promotion and...

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Digital Business Card Applications

It was only a matter of time that one of business most basic tool finally entered the digital technology age. Online websites and mobile applications are ushering a new era for the modern day business card that is no longer limited to a paper form that needs to be handed to an individual to circulate or forgotten in a junk drawer. These applications neatly organize your business cards into digital folder that can be accessed with a few...

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Keywords: why you need them and how to use them

You would be surprised at how many business owners fail to see the correlation  between keywords searched  in search engines online and how it can improve traffic to their business/website. Keywords are the driving force behind search engine results and how your audience, customers, or future employer will find you. Here is an example of how keywords can link a future employee and a company. A young man, who we will call "Jon", submitted...

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