http://ntrepreneur.net Start Your Internet Micro Enterprise! Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:51:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Darius M. Barazandeh You may know that doing business as a corporation or LLC can maximize your financial reward while minimizing your risk. What's less well known is that many business owners lose this valuable protection each year by failing to follow a few basic rules and regulations. Even if it ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/principles/5-mistakes-that-can-threaten-your-liability-protection-and-how-to-avoid-them.html By Paul Lawrence "I'm just so tired of working for someone else and making them rich," lamented my friend Mitch. "You should start a small business on the side," I replied. "Then, once it's big enough, you can quit your job." Mitch shook his head glumly. "I don't have enough money to start ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/strategies/does-it-take-money-to-make-money.html By Rich Schefren  Do you ever end your day wondering, "Did I really get the important stuff done today?" Most entrepreneurs, both online and off, often do. But today, I've got a quick strategy for you that'll eradicate any lingering doubts you might possess about your productivity. In my work coaching many of ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/strategies/cut-to-the-chase-dammit.html By Michael Masterson Entrepreneurship is based on selling. You test the market with a product you think will sell well. If it does, you keep selling. If it doesn't, you try something else. This approach lent its name to my most recent best-seller: Ready, Fire, Aim. The main idea is that to ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/10-dumb-ways-to-start-a-business-and-waste-a-ton-of-money-at-the-same-time.html By Michael Masterson One of the great fallacies in the self-help industry is the notion that you can change your life with "positive thinking." The purveyors of positivism, starting with Napoleon Hill and including the people who now promote The Secret, contend that we all have, at our conscious disposal, the means ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/mindset/why-positive-thinking-doesnt-work.html By Jim Daniels Fact: The Web is changing. In case you haven't noticed, over the last couple years it has gotten much faster. As a result, the Internet experience is changing for millions of users. Today, I'd like to show you how to cash in on this important development... Broadband high-speed access ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/marketing/how-to-use-video-to-cash-in-on-the-rapidly-changing-world-wide-web.html By Paul Lawrence When I found that I could earn college credits by taking judo, I jumped at the chance. I'd been taking karate for a couple of years and I was pretty good at it, if I do say so myself.  I was used to getting punched and kicked, so ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/mindset/learning-how-to-fall.html By Bob Bly Many years ago, I taught a class at the Learning Annex in New York City on how to make a six-figure income as a freelancer. One student, JR, wanted to break into writing TV commercials for Madison Avenue, and he had devised what was (according to him) a ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/marketing/the-worst-self-marketing-strategy-ever-devised-and-why-it-fails-so-spectacularly.html By Michael Masterson I was in Baltimore recently for meetings with some of my biggest clients. My job was to review their progress in 2007 and give them ideas about how to grow their already profitable businesses in 2008. During that time, I taped an interview with J. Christoph Amberger for Taipan ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/strategies/how-to-survive-even-profit-from-the-declining-economy.html By Clayton Makepeace I don't have to tell you that the U.S. economy is slowing precipitously... unemployment is rising... and consumers are spending less on the discretionary products and services most of us sell. But you can create explosive growth in your business - even in the face of these economic ... http://ntrepreneur.net/knowledge-center/principles/7-commandments-for-creating-explosive-growth.html