Highly recommend that entrepreneurs see this video - Great facts to be aware of that will likely spur some great ideas for the most opportunistic among you!    Did you Know Video

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If any of you know of someone looking for a job (and these days who doesn't), make sure they see this article on how to check out other resumes for similar job titles - it's a great way to beef up your competitive positioning.  Pass it around to anyone you know who could use a helping hand looking for a job.
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In the past 3 months, I've managed to get Vjournal's Alexa ranking from 3,237,678 to just above 620,000. Some days the ranking breaks into the top 500,000 websites. Roughly, this is an indication that, based on people who have downloaded the Alexa toolbar, there are 619,999 sites that get more traffic on a monthly basis than Vjournal. And my response is, so what? What I've learned is that these rankings mean little and are incredibly easy to manipulate. Unless the traffic coming to your site is truly quality, it doesn't matter. Yet so many companies have incorporated goals of improving their Alexa ranking (or some other ranking barometer) to be in the top 100,000 websites - and are paying consultants and "community managers" to help them do it. learn more about quality social networking here.<< MORE >>

Startups are famous for rapid-fire decision-making - But how do you determine whether you've crossed the line into poor decision-making habits that mask your company's real problems? Here are suggestions on how to prevent "ready-aim-fire" from turning into "aim-fire-ready". << MORE >>

I just posted this article on Vjournal.com and thought I'd share it with you. Nearly every entrepreneur knows the importance of their elevator pitch, yet an extraordinary number of them fail this simple test. Your pitch could be costing you investors, customers, employees and media attention just when you need them more than ever. The article goes through an example from my consulting experience which took a company's revenue from about $196k to over $3 million in 6 months.<< MORE >>

My issues with Google took much longer to resolve than I could have imagined, but Google's bots are finally indexing Vjournal pages quite readily now. Google never responded to any of my pleas for help. But<< MORE >>

This is Part 2 of my response to a reader question regarding how I came up with the idea for Vjournal and, given its edginess, whether I tested the idea before proceeding. YOU BET. Phase 1 was coming up with the brand name. Phase 2 is testing the concept in focus groups and you can read about that process here.<< MORE >>

Recently I’ve been getting a number of questions from part-time entrepreneurs and those with an idea they want to pursue on the criteria they should use in making the decision to quit their current day-job to pursue their entrepreneurial dream full-time. Learn how I'd make this decision here.<< MORE >>

This is Part 1 of a 3-part answer to a reader question: How did you come up with the idea for vjournal, and given its edginess, what kind of testing did you do before going this direction? Here I discuss what led to the the idea and the strategy for creating a brand name. << MORE >>

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