[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Entrepreneurship is challenging but it isn’t impossible. It isn’t always the omnipresent ticket to bail you out of your problems. In fact, as a small business owner, you are asking for the impossible and the surety of drained emotional reserves, as Clate Mask wrote earlier on Smart Hustle. But, for most entrepreneurs...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Networking can be a double edged sword for entrepreneurs and small business owners. On the one hand, it can be a great way to make connections and open new doors for your business. However, on the other hand it can be extremely frustrating and intimidating, especially for individuals who are more introverted...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] If you're a busy networker you know the drill. You attend countless events hoping to make new contacts and reconnect with old friends as well. The routine is pretty much always the same. But how you execute the steps is what makes you a successful networker. Successful networkers know that networking is...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Local SEO isn’t a new thing, but updates to local search rankings factors from the Google Pigeon update make it simpler and worth your time. National SEO is becoming more competitive each year, more and more businesses are turning to local tactics to gain organized search traffic for their businesses. Locally there’s...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Working in a windowless basement alongside David Byttow, Chrys Bader-Wechseler didn’t realize someday they’d form a $100 million startup together. But that was exactly what the co-founders of Secret did. Together, the two co-founded Secret, an app that allows its users to see anonymous items posted by people nearby. Like any entrepreneur,...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] When someone makes the decision to become an entrepreneur, not everyone fully understands why or what that means. Family especially, are often concerned about the amount of time that being an entrepreneur requires, the lack of stability and sometimes the lack of money. In this episode of Ignition, Ramon and Ellis talk about...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Your Google Analytics revealed that X people visited your website today. That’s nice, but have you ever wondered what they do when they’re there? Where they are clicking, where there attention is focused, and how much of your content they’re actually reading? Knowing these things would give you greater insight into...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] There is dispute about which people did what to get Twitter off the ground in March 2006. As a result, we may never know if the company’s founders realized the breakthrough the micro-blogging service had stumbled upon for marketing. By limiting users’ posts to 140 characters, Twitter provided something no other advertising...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] How Americans (and the rest of world, which is quickly catching up) interact with technology is a remarkable transformation, circa 2014. According to a ComScore release, mobile app usage has exploded, leading online publishers are posting revenues that should shame traditional print industry, and traditional TV ratings saw pronounced declines with...
[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] More businesses and entrepreneurs are beginning to see the advantage of adopting various technologies to help take care of tasks that they used to spend a lot of time and resources managing. While we are accelerating the rate at which we adopt software, there are those who still worry that we might...
