Writing with Profit in Mind? Your Book has Already Failed
If your primary motivation for writing is making money, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. Outliers like James Patterson, Stephen King, and Nora Roberts often skew our perception of how lucrative publishing really is. In fact, very few authors actually...
9 Simple Tools For Managing Your Accounting
What’s your favorite tool for streamlining bookkeeping or accounting right now and why? 1. Wave Accounting Wave Accounting is a great tool. You can streamline your invoicing, bookkeeping, financial reports and more. The interface is beautiful, and reports are so easy...
Who’s the boss? It could be your team
Let’s face it — it’s great to be the boss. You’re the one calling the shots, making sure everything stays on course; in the end, the responsibility for your company’s success or failure falls on your shoulders. And you’re fine with that. After all, you’re the boss....
9 Strategies to Hit Your Crowdfunding Goal
Question: What's your #1 tip for raising your target funding amount using crowdsourcing? Reward the Media "With a compelling offer to your backers, anticipation is built, and a great story is created. You'll attract more backers and give the media something...
10 Things Founders Should Never Say in Company Meetings
Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the heat of an important moment. But that’s exactly when it’s most critical to remain composed and think through what you’re about to say before you say it — especially when it’s in front of all your employees during a company...
12 Super Successful Facebook Marketing Strategies
What’s the ONE most amazingly successful thing you did on Facebook for your business that you would recommend? What results did you see? 1. Create Weekly Fan Albums Fans share pictures of themselves wearing Modify through email, Facebook messages, Twitter, Instagram...
Make Solicitation a Company Value (in a PG-13 Way)
Policies shift dramatically in the wake of an economic disaster. Four years after the stock market crash of 1929, regulations were enacted which barred privately owned companies from publicly seeking investment. This ban on general solicitation essentially decreed...
12 Cash Flow Tips for New Startups
Q.What’s one cash flow tip you’d give a new entrepreneur whose business is not yet profitable? 1. Spend Slowly and Steadily There is no reason to take more financial risk than you need to when your business isn’t profitable. Allocate funds toward essential business...
The 7 People Who Will Help You Fire Up Your Writing
You desperately want your stories to be read and loved. But showing your work to someone to critique can be terrifying. This is the paradox every writer faces. “Tell me what you think,” you say as you hand over the manuscript. “Be brutally honest.” You then spend the...
7 Ways Macho Action Movies Can Help Your Writing
Looking to improve your writing? Guest contributor Nicolas has an interesting take on how watching macho action movies can help do just that. Writers are supposed to expose our deepest, darkest feelings. They unearth the secrets we bury and lay them bare for us to...
13 Traditional Marketing Strategies You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Question: Everybody talks about online advertising — but traditional marketing still makes it into most company budgets. What traditional marketing do you still invest in, and why? Localize Offline to Build Trust “I invest in signs and door hangers and try to blanket...
Which Tech Duties Can I Outsource? 15 Entrepreneurs Weigh In
Question: Which tech jobs (software development, apps, website design) can you safely outsource, and which should stay in-house? In-House Means Under Control “Keeping as many competencies as possible in-house gives us better quality and cost control, and allows us to...