Getting started with Kickstarter.com, a crowd funding website; requires understanding some basic principles. As we begin this series of blog posts on crowd sourcing funds for your business, product or service, it is necessary to give an overview of this popular source of investment capital. There are few who could, with integrity anyway, deny crowdfunding represents one of the most titanic shifts in business funding since Angel investment became main stream. Until recently, a few wealthy individuals...

For those who may not be aware; it is time to learn how to delete Google Plus from your marketing plan because, well, it’s dead! A brief search of pretty much any term referring to Google Plus (in relation to other social media sites), using the Wordtracker keyword tool, says everything about its dwindling influence. With a mere 11,780 searches (bi-monthly) for the phrase ‘google plus’ (5,890 monthly), few, even inside Google, can ignore the fact this social media venture has turned into a...

In our previous post on becoming a wealthy entrepreneur, I explained an experience I had some years ago which, although things didn’t turn out quite as I’d hoped, taught many lessons. When starting my own business, learned at Banneker, I’ve always believed “they who don’t learn from the good and bad will never experience success as it was meant to be”. Continuing this series, we know arrive at four signs that either you or another partner may need to part ways;

1. At key...

Grasping mobile apps business plan basics first requires understanding their value. According to leading technology websites such as Techcrunch, Wired and others, the mobile market (tablets and smartphones) is racing well past their more dated brethren; PCs and desktop(s). With this migration comes a need for entrepreneurs to not only update business and marketing plans to include apps but viewing them as indispensable to ongoing viability. As we continue our series on the 12 pillars of Internet marketing,...

In this post, we’ll discuss working from home business basics and in particular, Fiverr.com. As our more than 10,000 online learners know, when a great opportunity has run its course and seems to be ‘racing towards the bottom’, we take the following steps;

• State the problem

• Discuss our MEASURED experience(s)

• Give warning to all considering use of that particular online tool

• Pull the course from our online curriculum

It gives us no pleasure to add Fiverr.com to our growing list...