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What are the key success factors for entrepreneurs? The “Making of a Successful Entrepreneur” report, published by the Kauffman Foundation (November 2009), sheds light on this interesting question. The study explored the opinions of 549 successful company founders in the US on the crucial factors that led to the failure or success of their businesses. [...]

Co-working has become a popular way to find office space without having to pay for a full office, especially when you’re the only one using it. Any space with a couple of desks and wireless access can become a co-working space — all you need are a few other people who need room to work [...]

In a previous article, I talked about how interviewing experts is one of the best and most leveraged ways to create high-quality, profitable content for your online business. You can use expert interviews to make products, drive traffic, or build your subscriber list. But the big question I always get asked is: “How do I [...]

Ask successful internet entrepreneurs what it takes to create a successful business online, and the majority will say that it takes a great deal of hard work and perseverance to succeed. Earlier this year, I read Daniel Scocco’s post at Daily Blog Tips on the working methods of 12 top online entrepreneurs. A successful online [...]

It isn’t always easy to find the sort of connections you need to keep growing your business: if you take an idea that could make a great online business to a traditional networking event, you can spend more time explaining the technology behind your idea than actually networking. There is plenty of networking that can [...]

I am sure most of you would agree that working full-time on the web from home today isn’t as uncommon as it used to be a few years ago. In my last 2 years of full-time web working, I have seen many of my friends ditch their day jobs and take the plunge into this [...]

Working as a freelance writer and in SEO over the past few years, one thing became clear to me very quickly: link-building was going to be a big part of the job. One of the easiest ways to build links is by writing articles that contain anchor text (keywords that contain a hyperlink), and then [...]

HTML 5 is not in its final version yet but more and more sites have started using it. HTML 5 attempts to meet the requirements of the new Web and to make it easier to publish Web 2.0 content. When HTML 4 was in the works, Web 2.0 wasn’t even dreamed of, so you can’t [...]

Once you have found a company to host your website, you will need to select an appropriate content management system (CMS), which is the software used to organize your website, to efficiently produce new articles, and to easily maintain old content. I built one of my first websites using the Dreamweaver CMS, and I later [...]

Sales is a four-letter word. Wait a minute, it’s five letters. And it’s that innocent “s” at the end that changes everything. “Sale” is good. “Sales” is bad. At least it is in many a freelancer’s mind. It conjures up images of plaid-clad, cigar-smoking wheeler-dealers who try to badger you into buying something you neither [...]