Ramblings and ravings from a busy entrepreneur.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Advisor Reveals Tips for Entrepreneurship in Step-by-Step Guide
Author Shahriar Mohammad Saadullah, CPA, sheds some light on the confusing world of small business ownership and operation in his book, "The New Entrepreneur: What Your CPA Wants You to Know" (now available through AuthorHouse).
"Every year about 1 million small businesses open and about 80 percent of them shut down within less than three years," Saadullah says. "One of the primary reasons is that the business owners do not consider all aspects of owning and operating a business. Also, many of them go into the wrong kind of business or choose the wrong advisors. 'The New Entrepreneur' is designed to help the future business owner plan ahead and avoid the traps that 80 percent of new business owners fall into."
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Entrepreneur Magazine Interviews Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki
Readers get insights and advice from Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki this month as these legendary business icons sit down in an interview with Entrepreneur magazine. In the November issue on newsstands today, readers get their approach on how to build wealth as well as an exclusive look at their new book, Why We Want You to Be Rich, through a special chapter excerpt.
Entrepreneur spoke to Trump and Kiyosaki as part of the magazine's mission to offer the most relevant information to entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses and build their wealth. Kiyosaki, perhaps best known for his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, is already a regular writer for Entrepreneur, heading a column called "Rich Returns." To learn from his ideas and success, a complete archive of his articles is available at http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/richreturns.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
How Is Storytelling Critical to Marketing in Blogosphere 2.0?
The Society for New Communications Research, a nonprofit global think tank dedicated to the advanced study of new media and emerging modes of communication and their effect on media, business and society, will hold its inaugural Research Symposium & Awards Gala on November 1 – 2, 2006 at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston, Mass. The event will feature a keynote presentation by veteran journalist and new media expert Paul Gillin. The event will tackle topics on: · “Corporate Blogging Policy Best Practices,” moderated by SNCR Research Fellow and Best Practices Chair, Mike Manuel of Voce Communications. Panelists will include executives from IBM, EDS and Novell.
· “The Emergence of Blogging in University Admissions and Recruiting,” moderated by SNCR Research Fellow Dan Karleen of Peterson’s, and Rob Pongsajapan of Georgetown University. Panelists will include representatives from The University of Vermont; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Ball State University.
· “The State of the Art in Social Media,” presented by SNCR Research Fellow and PR veteran Giovanni Rodriguez
· “What’s the Story with Online? How Storytelling is Still Critical to Marketing in Blogosphere 2.0,” presented by SNCR Research Fellow and board member Kathy Klotz-Guest, Powerfully Funny
· “Podcasts: Download or Broadcast – Legal Implications,” presented by SNCR Research Fellow and board member Elizabeth Fairbanks Fletcher, Esq., Law Offices of Elizabeth L. Fairbanks-Fletcher, PLLC
The full event agenda is available at http://www.sncr.org.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Design Secrets for Dopes
GraphicReporter.com Founder and iStockphoto Chief Evangelist Lesa Snider King is hosting a weekly podcast called, “Graphics Secrets for Business” at www.iStockphoto.com/Evangelesa. She offers simple tips and tricks in 5-minute segments that helps users add images and multimedia to their documents.
I often visit her website at http://graphicreporter.com/tutorials/photoshop_tutorials.html and use her Photoshop tutorials. She makes designing in Photoshop easier and much quicker.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Lucky 13 for ISBN Numbers
According to print-on-demand publisher Lightning Source, the US ISBN Agency will expand ISBN numbers from 10 digits to 13 digits sometime after January 2007. These 13 digits (also referred to as "identifiers") will be made the same way as today's Bookland EAN, except both of the EAN prefixes ('978' and '979') will be used. Existing Bookland EANs will converge into the new ISBN-13. This change improves the bookselling process within North America and worldwide and prevents ISBN numbers from running out.
Wow, That Was Easy ...
It took me less than (2) weeks to get the keywords "busy entrepreneur" (with quotes and without quotes) as the #1 listing on Google.com and MSN.com. Yahoo always takes more work to get a #1 position. It's easy to get a #1 position in search engines if the page ranking is low for your keywords and if your domain name includes your keywords.
Sometimes it takes more work and you have to wait a lot longer. My other website, LiteracyNews.com, (keywords: "literacy news" and literacy news) jumped to # 1 on MSN.com within a couple of weeks; about 4-5 weeks to get to # 1 on Yahoo.com; and about four months to get to #1 on Google.com.
My other website, BookCatcher.com (book catcher), of course has #1 position in search engines because no one uses the keywords "book catcher." Instead I focused on the keywords "book publicity" and "free book publicity" and this website gets listed within the top 10-15 position. A #1 position is more difficult to obtain because of the higher page ranking and lots more competition.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
EMPLOYERS FRUSTRATED OVER POOR WRITING SKILLS
According to a new report, nearly three- quarters (72 percent) of incoming high school graduates are viewed as deficient in basic English writing skills, including grammar and spelling. When asked about readiness with regard to applied skills related to the workplace, the greatest deficiency was reported in written communications (memos, letters, complex technical reports), and in professionalism and work ethic. Eighty-one percent of survey participants (employers) say their high school graduate hires were deficient in written communications.
Poor writing skills also continued to be a problem among both two-year and four-year college graduates. Nearly half of all survey participants (47 percent) report that two-year college graduates are deficient in this skill. Read more about this report at LiteracyNews.com If you want to improve your writing skills, check out LousyWriter.com
Friday, October 06, 2006
BRAIN DEAD ON GRAMMAR
Do you ever have one of those days where you don't function properly? For me, it's working in front of my computer for five hours straight and my brain starts to go numb. It's hard to think and see writing errors. When I get those midday "brain farts" reviewing my work, I turn to COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH, a free resource at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors. Run by Paul Brians, Professor of English at Washington State University, it lists hundreds of common and unusual grammar errors. His website has saved me from misusing words plenty of times.
Prof. Paul Brians' website is based on his book, "Common Errors in English Usage: The Book." Buy a copy at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/book.html
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