Have mankind’s basic needs evolved to include time on the internet? From the results of a recent poll, it certainly seems that way!
According to a poll on The New Business Blog, nearly 65% of us spend at least eight hours each day trolling the internet. It doesn’t take a math wizard to see […]
28 Apr
Posted by Brian Carr as Entrepreneurship, Starting a Business
It’s no secret that starting a business is one of the most likely ways to generate “massive wealth” but unfortunately too many people never get around to forming a business because they think it’s simply too difficult and risky. Fortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.
Starting an online business has been one of […]
Going about starting your own Limited Liability Company (LLC) can be a pretty daunting and intimidating task, especially your first time around when you absolutely no idea what you’re doing.
Fortunately, before I started the process of putting together my LLCs I bought a copy of Nolo’s Form Your Own Limited Liability Company, and I have […]
Apparently despite all of its apparent flaws, people still love Digg.
A while back I started a poll asking people to vote on their favorite news submission sites. When I put the poll together I figured that the final results would be relatively close, but that when all was said and done people would select Digg […]
22 Apr
Posted by Brian Carr as Entrepreneurship, Miscellaneous
When starting your business, aside from all of the money you’ll spend on the necessary paper work that makes your business “official,” the next biggest expense you’re likely to incur for your business’ software.
If you choose to go for all of the latest and greatest programs out there, you could be looking at spending several […]
Okay, I know I’m being pretty obsessive compulsive about Digg, so I promise, this will be the last post about it for a while. The way I look at it, I like Digg a lot - and by looking at the poll in the sidebar, I’m not the only one - and because I like […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a pretty seething article about how Digg was beginning to come across as a “high school clique” due to the difficulty for us little guys to make it up to the homepage. After that article made it up to the homepage, I figured that what I had done […]
For those of us who run our businesses online - or just run websites in our spare time - we’re all well aware of how important Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to getting lots of traffic to our sites and, in turn, growing our bottom lines.
To that end, we spend countless hours trying to make sure that our sites […]
After getting your business up and running, one of the most important things you can to do is to come up with some short terms goals, write them down, and then see them through. The more and more I work at trying to establish my businesses, the more I realize that setting goals for your business is absolutely […]
Have you ever gotten the feeling that technology is making things more complicated and more time consuming despite claims to the contrary? Don’t get me wrong, I love technology - I can’t imagine my life without the internet, email, cell phones, etc. - but at the same time, I feel like it has made some aspects […]