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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Writing, Designing, Publishing, Distributing, Promoting and Selling a Book Profitably

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Writing, publishing and selling a book with today’s technology can take as little as a month.  In this article we review specific steps you can take to design, write, publish, distribute and promote your book profitably.

Identify your target market and determine what they need to know and how they need to learn it.  Note: Putting this step first insures that your book will make money, and if you find it...

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Making All the Right Mistakes

That said, the history of any business is based on mistakes made and lessons learned. The more seasoned you become as a business owner, the more willing you become to make little mistakes that might lead to big profits. The trick is, of course, knowing which mistakes to make.

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Buy and Sell Web Ads with BuySellAds: An Alternative to Google Ad Solutions

BuySellAds.com delivers a straight forward, easy to understand, reliable market for publishers and advertisers to use. Publishers pick the sites they want to run ads on. Advertisers can enable and disable advertisers at will, and they set their own prices. Best of all, BuySellAds takes only 25% of the revenue generated by a click, and they cover all costs related to the transaction (including PayPal and Credit Card fees).

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating & Maintaining a “Thin Business”

If you are starting, running or working to fund an enterprise, you need to ensure you are running as lean as possible and that you are networking efficiently to build the business relationships you need to survive.

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YouNoodle.com Calculates How Much Your Startup Will Be Worth in 3 Years

YouNoodle.com is a tool you can use to calculate the value of your startup in three years based on the characteristics of its team.

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Never Let Someone Else Write Your Business Plan

Letting someone else write your business plan is almost always unnecessary and almost certainly unwise.

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Measuring the Metrics That Matter

If you were to make a list of the 100 things you and those who work with you spend most of your time doing, you would likely discover that more than 90% of the tasks you undertake have no proven economic value. You think they help generate money, but you can’t prove it. And for the most part . . . you're probably wrong.

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The Insanity of Angel Investors

The best Angels help the businesses they invest in immeasurably. They recognize good teams when they see them. They offer mentoring, advice, encouragement and occasionally a harsh word that keeps an entrepreneur focused, effective and motivated. Good angels are few and far between, but they are entirely worth looking for.

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Disruptive Technologies

Technology comes in two types. Sustaining technologies that are incremental in nature and support existing market leaders, and disruptive technologies that represent complete paradigm shifts and displace existing market leaders. Disruptive technologies are the tools used by effective entrepreneurs to unseat market leaders.

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12 Free Press Release Sites: Great for SEO & PageRank

Why submit press releases about your business to free press release sites?  Because Google determines where to rank your website, in part, based on how many sites like to it, and in particular, how many high-value sites link to it.  Since many of these press release sites report to news.google.com, which one of the highest ranking sites on the internet, posting releases on them provides a great boost to your search engine ranking.  Furthermore, if the topic of your release...

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