Only 1 question this week so lets pump out the answers!!!
Don't forget to pass the word about HAEO onto friends. The more people involved the better answers there are for all!-----------------------------#General Business1)
What do you need help with?: Want to start e commerce biz selling ipod accessories
Name: Robyn AmosE-Mail: robyn.e.amos@gmail.com
Twitter Handle: http://www.twitter.com/robyn_amos
Details: Need help on where to start like where to buy accessories wholesale and how to properly get set up for ebay and amazon-----------------------------
Founders of HAEO! Help an Entrepreneur Out: http://www.twitter.com/mattwilsontv , http://www.twitter.com/jaredotoole
HAEo Headquarters - http://www.under30ceo.com/
Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Guru.com Recognized for Impact on Global Job Creation
As job losses continue, Guru.com is making noticeable strides in economic stimulus and job creation efforts.
Between April 2008 and April 2009, Guru.com has observed more than 107,665 project –based jobs posted to its website. During the same period, 69,893 transactions were completed.
The company’s impressive growth rate and impact on job creation and entrepreneurship is also getting national recognition. In the last month, two national award programs acknowledged Guru.com as a private tech company to watch:
· Guru.com Honored by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (Winner):
http://www.guru.com/Press/icic100_jobs_creation_03June2009.cfm
· Red Herring 100 North America Recognizes Guru.com (Finalist):
http://www.guru.com/Press/top-web-companies-20may2009.cfm
Guru.com is the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent with over 1 million registered members. Businesses use Guru.com to find top talent in over 160 professional service categories - locally, nationally, or globally - within budget and without overhead; freelancers compete for project work and market expert skills to a global audience at minimal cost.
Guru.com is the only freelance marketplace to feature a proprietary Rank system that captures and reports objective performance data about the quality of every freelancer to help facilitate hiring decisions based on quantifiable service excellence.
Please contact me if you are interested in more information about Guru.com and its competitive advantages for businesses and job seekers alike.
Best regards,
Kristen I. Sabol
Communications Specialist /
Public Relations
Guru.com
5001 Baum Blvd, Suite 760
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Direct: 412.687.2228 (x 837)
Facsimile: 412.687.4466
Email: ksabol@guru.com
Between April 2008 and April 2009, Guru.com has observed more than 107,665 project –based jobs posted to its website. During the same period, 69,893 transactions were completed.
The company’s impressive growth rate and impact on job creation and entrepreneurship is also getting national recognition. In the last month, two national award programs acknowledged Guru.com as a private tech company to watch:
· Guru.com Honored by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (Winner):
http://www.guru.com/Press/icic100_jobs_creation_03June2009.cfm
· Red Herring 100 North America Recognizes Guru.com (Finalist):
http://www.guru.com/Press/top-web-companies-20may2009.cfm
Guru.com is the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent with over 1 million registered members. Businesses use Guru.com to find top talent in over 160 professional service categories - locally, nationally, or globally - within budget and without overhead; freelancers compete for project work and market expert skills to a global audience at minimal cost.
Guru.com is the only freelance marketplace to feature a proprietary Rank system that captures and reports objective performance data about the quality of every freelancer to help facilitate hiring decisions based on quantifiable service excellence.
Please contact me if you are interested in more information about Guru.com and its competitive advantages for businesses and job seekers alike.
Best regards,
Kristen I. Sabol
Communications Specialist /
Public Relations
Guru.com
5001 Baum Blvd, Suite 760
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Direct: 412.687.2228 (x 837)
Facsimile: 412.687.4466
Email: ksabol@guru.com
The pros and cons of starting young
By http://www.college-startup.com
An article on USA Today recently dealt with young people, particularly those who are forced to start their own businesses because of limited job opportunities today. In fact, the 16-to-19-year-old unemployment rate in April was measured at a high 21.5%. But even before the crisis started, there was already a sizable number of teens and tweens who were their own boss. The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy says that in 2006, the latest available data, there were 492,000 people younger than 25 who were self-employed.
Three examples were featured in the article. One is a college student who earns extra money by giving drumming lessons and performing onstage. Another is a girl who made a fortune out of marketing a hair-conditioner, the recipe of which is a family secret. The last is a girl as well that, frustrated with off-the-shelf body care products, decided she’d experiment and create her own.
They all became successful, but not before overcoming difficulties, some being specific to their age. First, obviously, is their lack of experience. Be it life experience or business experience, they didn’t have the luxury of having much of either to draw from. Then there’s the tough task of juggling work, school, and other activities normal kids their age do. Finally, being young makes it that much harder to convince other people to trust you, which means you often need to perform above par just to be treated seriously.
That said, starting early gives you a lot of advantage in the long run. By running a business, you learn infinitely more compared to taking a job elsewhere. A sense of responsibility becomes ingrained as you feel tied to the work that you do. Being young, it’s also easier to accept rejection, or at least get used to it, so that you accept it as part of the learning processes. And last, teens are definitely much more tech-savvy than older generations. Being connected comes natural, and they can utilize the full potential of available technologies much more readily simply due to earlier exposure.
Have you started your own business as a teen? What were the difficulties that you encountered then?
An article on USA Today recently dealt with young people, particularly those who are forced to start their own businesses because of limited job opportunities today. In fact, the 16-to-19-year-old unemployment rate in April was measured at a high 21.5%. But even before the crisis started, there was already a sizable number of teens and tweens who were their own boss. The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy says that in 2006, the latest available data, there were 492,000 people younger than 25 who were self-employed.
Three examples were featured in the article. One is a college student who earns extra money by giving drumming lessons and performing onstage. Another is a girl who made a fortune out of marketing a hair-conditioner, the recipe of which is a family secret. The last is a girl as well that, frustrated with off-the-shelf body care products, decided she’d experiment and create her own.
They all became successful, but not before overcoming difficulties, some being specific to their age. First, obviously, is their lack of experience. Be it life experience or business experience, they didn’t have the luxury of having much of either to draw from. Then there’s the tough task of juggling work, school, and other activities normal kids their age do. Finally, being young makes it that much harder to convince other people to trust you, which means you often need to perform above par just to be treated seriously.
That said, starting early gives you a lot of advantage in the long run. By running a business, you learn infinitely more compared to taking a job elsewhere. A sense of responsibility becomes ingrained as you feel tied to the work that you do. Being young, it’s also easier to accept rejection, or at least get used to it, so that you accept it as part of the learning processes. And last, teens are definitely much more tech-savvy than older generations. Being connected comes natural, and they can utilize the full potential of available technologies much more readily simply due to earlier exposure.
Have you started your own business as a teen? What were the difficulties that you encountered then?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
How to find your Hidden Talent?
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur had a blog post to help people find their hidden talent so that they can live their dreams. I was included in the post as I'm listed at #50.
http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/blog/how-to-find-your-hidden-talent
http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/blog/how-to-find-your-hidden-talent
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Do you have PASSION?
“If you had to encourage a college entrepreneur with one word what would it be and why?”
Passion.
“Because if you are passionate about something you will make it through the tough times (which there will be) and you are not only doing something to make money.”
Danny Kofke How To Survive (and perhaps thrive) On A Teacher's Salary www.dannykofke.blogspot.com
Passion.
“If you are passionate enough about your idea it will carry you over the delays, disappointments and rough spots that coming with starting something new. Money is never enough without passion.”
Professor Daniel M. FergusonOhio Northern University Assistant Professor of EntrepreneurshipDicke College of Business Administration www.onu.edu
Passion.
“Passion will get you up every morning, make you work harder than you ever thought possible, get you through the rough days and times and, through it all, you’ll still be happy at the end of each day which makes for less stress!”
Dayna Steele – www.daynasteele.com
PASSION!
“Passion is the most important thing you need to have if you ever want to succeed as an entrepreneur. If you’re not passionate about your product or service, no one will be. Passion can be contagious, so keep it up and others will follow.
Passion will keep you focused. Don’t let others discourage you. Along the way, there may be people who tell you your idea won’t work. Your passion will help you push forward and prove them wrong.
And finally, without passion, you will never succeed. Being an entrepreneur is one of the most rewarding jobs you can have – but it’s also the hardest. There’s no boss/supervisor telling you to get up and go to work every morning. And there probably won’t be a steady paycheck coming in every week to keep you going. You need passion to motivate you. You need passion in order to succeed.”
Jill FrechtmanFounder & PresidentFretzels by Jill, Inc.http://twitter.com/fretzelswww.fretzels.com
Passion
“For making a difference. Passion for creating value with your own idea. Passion for brining partners, team members, investors and customers into your vision. Passion for the business of turning an idea into reality. It's been said that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. That is saying has been and continues to be true for my life. For college entrepreneurs the last two passions I listed will allow them to live exciting, fulfilling lives full of the first two. One of my favorite sayings does a much better job of explaining the concept: "The entrepreneur that thoroughly understands how to run a single company can run multiple companies at the same time." J.P. Getty. By learning the business of bringing ideas to life an entrepreneur can make many contributions over their career.”
Giovanni Isaksen Ashworth Partners Ltd. www.ashworthpartners.com
Passion.
“Your Passion for a chosen path may not make sense to anyone else, but that's OK, let them have their own Passion. Each of us has a unique purpose to fulfill; Passion is the spark that ignites uncontainable potential. Passion is what keeps you up at night, stirs you while you sleep, and wakes you in the morning with excitement to take on the day. Passion is the shield you cling to when the naysayers attack. Passion is knowing that what you are doing will make a difference.”
Amanda Weihrauch/BlackFuze Marketing www.blackfuze.com
Passion.
“Because if you are passionate about something you will make it through the tough times (which there will be) and you are not only doing something to make money.”
Danny Kofke How To Survive (and perhaps thrive) On A Teacher's Salary www.dannykofke.blogspot.com
Passion.
“If you are passionate enough about your idea it will carry you over the delays, disappointments and rough spots that coming with starting something new. Money is never enough without passion.”
Professor Daniel M. FergusonOhio Northern University Assistant Professor of EntrepreneurshipDicke College of Business Administration www.onu.edu
Passion.
“Passion will get you up every morning, make you work harder than you ever thought possible, get you through the rough days and times and, through it all, you’ll still be happy at the end of each day which makes for less stress!”
Dayna Steele – www.daynasteele.com
PASSION!
“Passion is the most important thing you need to have if you ever want to succeed as an entrepreneur. If you’re not passionate about your product or service, no one will be. Passion can be contagious, so keep it up and others will follow.
Passion will keep you focused. Don’t let others discourage you. Along the way, there may be people who tell you your idea won’t work. Your passion will help you push forward and prove them wrong.
And finally, without passion, you will never succeed. Being an entrepreneur is one of the most rewarding jobs you can have – but it’s also the hardest. There’s no boss/supervisor telling you to get up and go to work every morning. And there probably won’t be a steady paycheck coming in every week to keep you going. You need passion to motivate you. You need passion in order to succeed.”
Jill FrechtmanFounder & PresidentFretzels by Jill, Inc.http://twitter.com/fretzelswww.fretzels.com
Passion
“For making a difference. Passion for creating value with your own idea. Passion for brining partners, team members, investors and customers into your vision. Passion for the business of turning an idea into reality. It's been said that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. That is saying has been and continues to be true for my life. For college entrepreneurs the last two passions I listed will allow them to live exciting, fulfilling lives full of the first two. One of my favorite sayings does a much better job of explaining the concept: "The entrepreneur that thoroughly understands how to run a single company can run multiple companies at the same time." J.P. Getty. By learning the business of bringing ideas to life an entrepreneur can make many contributions over their career.”
Giovanni Isaksen Ashworth Partners Ltd. www.ashworthpartners.com
Passion.
“Your Passion for a chosen path may not make sense to anyone else, but that's OK, let them have their own Passion. Each of us has a unique purpose to fulfill; Passion is the spark that ignites uncontainable potential. Passion is what keeps you up at night, stirs you while you sleep, and wakes you in the morning with excitement to take on the day. Passion is the shield you cling to when the naysayers attack. Passion is knowing that what you are doing will make a difference.”
Amanda Weihrauch/BlackFuze Marketing www.blackfuze.com
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Help An Entrepreneur Out
Imagine having crowds of entrepreneurs at your fingertips.
Ask your business question and HAEO will publish it in our next newsletter. Our subscriber base of helpful business people will send you answers via email or Twitter.
Got a question? Help An Entrepreneur Out
As an entrepreneur and small business owner we all have questions! Every day there is a new challenge or new technology to learn. HAEO is where you ask those questions. Anything from marketing tips to event info to great books. These answers and resources are what we spend endless hours looking for across the web. Now let the answers come to you via experts on the topics or simply other entrepreneurs who have found the answers before. No longer take on your challenges alone.
Want to get known? Help An Entrepreneur Out
We all want to show off what we know, promote ourselves and find new leads. HAEO provides the easiest all in one platform to do these things. Answer questions from entrepreneurs on the topics you know by quickly scrolling through the newsletter. Show that your content is the best by blowing their minds with your answers and resources. Develop relationships with them so they come to YOU with their questions. Put your knowledge in front of your audience.
For more information on how you can Help An Entrepreneur Out go to http://tv.under30ceo.com/haeo/ .
Ask your business question and HAEO will publish it in our next newsletter. Our subscriber base of helpful business people will send you answers via email or Twitter.
Got a question? Help An Entrepreneur Out
As an entrepreneur and small business owner we all have questions! Every day there is a new challenge or new technology to learn. HAEO is where you ask those questions. Anything from marketing tips to event info to great books. These answers and resources are what we spend endless hours looking for across the web. Now let the answers come to you via experts on the topics or simply other entrepreneurs who have found the answers before. No longer take on your challenges alone.
Want to get known? Help An Entrepreneur Out
We all want to show off what we know, promote ourselves and find new leads. HAEO provides the easiest all in one platform to do these things. Answer questions from entrepreneurs on the topics you know by quickly scrolling through the newsletter. Show that your content is the best by blowing their minds with your answers and resources. Develop relationships with them so they come to YOU with their questions. Put your knowledge in front of your audience.
For more information on how you can Help An Entrepreneur Out go to http://tv.under30ceo.com/haeo/ .
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