Category: Entrepreneur
Open for Business – Start-Ups in Egypt
In the last five years, Egypt has received $200 billion of foreign investment and is set to receive further billions, this time from Qatar. Not only that, if the Egyptian Government plays its economic cards right and implements austerity measures successfully, the country is in line for a $5 billion loan from the IMF. Much [...]
5 Steps To Grow Your Startup With Content Marketing
1. Know Your Customer Content Marketing isn’t about your product– it’s about your customers’ interests. If you don’t have customers or users yet, make sure you have a clearly defined target customer before you continue with content marketing (or product development, for that matter). If you have customers or users, find out who they are [...]
Beta Testing a WordPress Theme
While scrolling down my Facebook news-feed one night I saw a message from CyberChimps Themes, one of my favorite WordPress theme developers. The message stated they were looking for beta testers for the brand new WordPress framework they were going to roll out in all of their themes in the up coming year. I quickly [...]
WordPress Theme Series: Business Pro 3.0
CyberChimps makes great WordPress themes. I have used many of their themes for my customers and have always been happy with how they work. And for those of you readers who aren’t as experienced as me in WordPress, when you buy a theme from them they offer a support forum
Planning for The Unexpected in Business
Nobody wants to spend their evenings worrying about disasters that may or may not occur, but if you’re a small business owner, it’s something that you should think about.
Nerds are the New Cool Kids
Throughout the Eighties and Nineties, popular culture remained true to a well-known set of archetypes derived from our universal experience in High School. Most of us were either unnoticed, or slid neatly into the role of Athlete, Cheerleader or Nerd.
How to Find Funding For Your Business
Businesses are struggling to find funding due to the dismal financial recession. Everyone is tightening their belts, even the banks and as a result, the number of loans being granted to people by commercial lenders has significantly dropped.
4 Tips for Getting Your Startup Recognized
You’ve launched your business off the ground but the only people that have ever heard of it or care are family friends or family. So what to do you do? How do you get people to notice you? Here are four simple things you can start to do right now
5 Tips For the Newly Self-Employed
Thousands of people dream of being their own bosses. They want to unlock the shackles of a time clock, have the freedom to turn away bad clients and determine their own destinies. Few, however, survive the first year of business ownership but not because of lack of desire.
Steps to Starting your Own Home Based Small Business
You may be thinking that you want to start a business but you do not have the resources. But this is not true! Depending on the type of business you want to start, you can do it with just a few hundred dollars for a home based business.
