Amber Riviere fell into entrepreneurship naturally because she had a talent that other people were willing to pay money for.
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A reader, Paul Rusnak, wrote in with the following account of his failed attempt at marketing: I am a subscriber of you weblog and I enjoy reading all the stories, many of which give me new ideas to market my business. Here is something that happened to one of my creative marketing ideas… that didn’t
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The following is a guest post by Joan Lefkowitz. You might think that during times of economic recession consumers are in no mood to experiment with, or purchase inventive products. Counter-intuitively, starting a business or launching an invention during a recession can be one of the smartest moves to make — depending of course, on
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photo credit: zenera The following guest post is by Alisa Johnson. Recession and business are not the best of bedfellows, but there’s a certain kind of business that does do well no matter how bad the economy is in general. And that’s a niche business, one that offers exclusive services and products to a targeted
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The following guest post is from Outright.com. It’s tax time, which means almost 21 million self-employed people are preparing to fill out their tax returns, including Schedule C: Profit or Loss from Business. Should be pretty easy – just enter how much money came in and went out of your business last year. Right? Well,
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The following guest post is by Scott Quitter of A Couple of Quitters. Do you set goals or at least a resolution every year, or do you avoid it because you never accomplish anything? Perhaps you’re setting the wrong goals; or maybe you’re taking the wrong approach. While there isn’t one perfect way to set
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The following is a guest post from the guys at Logo Inn. At the end, I’m going to announce how one lucky reader can get a free logo designed by their professional logo design team. Contrary to conventional belief, in times of recession, when marketing budgets are slashed, it makes even more sense to spend
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photo credit: bgilliard The following is a guest post by Troy Shanks. Starting a business today, with the way the economy is, can be scary for anyone. Don’t let it keep you from making your dream of owning a business a reality. It can be done with careful planning and consideration before jumping into owning
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Anybody reading the headlines these days knows the world teeters on the biggest worldwide recession in modern history and our leaders are scrambling for solutions. It is very timely that I recently had the opportunity of interviewing Mr Steve Bolles, founder and President of Merchants Barter Exchange, one of America’s great innovators of economic change
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It seems like nearly every day there’s more bad news about the economy. Even worse, it’s hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel. Given that, it may seem like a terrible time to start a small business. So here’s something that may surprise you: it’s actually not. The truth is that
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