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Startups or small businesses consider marketing as an unnecessary expense due to which they rarely plan a marketing budget. Remember you can’t go from engineering to sales, skipping the marketing step. Usually entrepreneurs hire sales people first, which is a wrong practice. At an initial stage hire a marketing expert whether on a contract or [...]

SideSkills is one of the fastest growing social employment and career networking websites. With over 20,000 people signed up and more coming daily, they must be doing something right.  The site is a one stop ship for finding full-time, part-time, contract jobs, or just to make some extra income. The free site allows you to [...]

Let’s face it; if you want to start a business, you need money.  And money isn’t something abundantly available to college kids, known for their propensity to live off of Ramen Noodles and drink bottom-of-the-barrel beer at frat parties.  So, if you want to be a college entrepreneur, but lack funds, here are some first-time [...]

Bookkeeping is a tedious yet necessary part of owning and running a business; no matter how big or small your operation. Before the advent of computers, all business transactions had to be entered into daybooks by hand and manually balanced. Today, you can take care of your business’ bookkeeping needs more efficiently through the use [...]

Real quick folks, I wanted to share with you a great article that looks at 4 ways you can get finaicially AND physically fit at the same time. Interested? I thought so. As a student entrepreneur or young entrepreneur trying to bootstrap your business, being financially fit is important…and so is being physically fit. My [...]

That’s right! The newly released…as in just a couple days ago…Vonage Mobile App allows it’s users to make international long distance calls, and any other calls for that matter, for free to another Vonage app user. How cool? Vonage just the other day released their new smartphone app which has a ton of great features [...]

Pinterest is the up-and-coming social media networking site that, throughout 2011, confounded expectations and steadily grew into a minor sensation. And it is still growing. It has already done enough to concern Facebook’s upper echelons – they have deemed it necessary for their site to enforce a scrolling “Timeline” to each user’s wall. It is [...]

Buying an investment property in 2012 requires significant knowledge to obtain the best deal. The financial commitment related to maintaining an investment property is slightly different from a primary property. Building insurance, taxes and other details must be considered when planning to purchase an investment property. Mortgage brokers are recommended to teach investors the process. [...]

Despite the growing popularity of higher education in our country, there are still many people who are not financially literate. It has become very common to see a new payday loan store on the corner or an ad online promoting the ease of these types of loans. Without the proper financial education and planning, many [...]

At this time of recession, it’s ironic that three of the fastest growing money-makers are people starting up their own online businesses, writing e-books, and online blogging. People always say everyone has got a book in them – and this may be the case. Nowadays it seems that everyone has got a business in them [...]