Having raised over $12mn in the last ten years for small start ups and new companies and more for listed businesses, I have come across literally hundreds, if not thousands, of business plans and funding proposals. The ones chosen to go forward had a number of things in common and I am going to tell you what they were so you can bear this is mind when you are looking for funding. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for June, 2009
Communicate With TweetBoard's Killer App
On June - 29 - 2009
Talk To Us With TweetBoard – “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives”. Anthony Robbins was more than right when he said this and if you really want to be successful in business, online or offline, this is one thing you must take to heart. Communication is pretty much at the core of everything you do to be successful. Read the rest of this entry »
Make Your Sales Letter More Powerful
On June - 26 - 2009
Continuing our sales and motivational theme, the post today is as relevant to writing sales copy for your blog or merchant site as it is for ‘in the flesh’ meetings – it may also help you in your relationships. So don’t think that because you are not managing a group of people that these techniques are not relevant, Read the rest of this entry »
Make More Sales with 1 Crucial Sales Management Tip
On June - 25 - 2009
In my time I have trained and directly managed over 300 sales people in the US, UK and Continental Europe. I am not talking about being a sales manager for hundreds of people who only ever see you at the company’s monthly seminar, I am talking hands on direct management. Read the rest of this entry »
7 Habits Of The Successful Entrepreneur
On June - 25 - 2009
When I was young, I worked in a financial services company alongside a lady whose husband was one of the leading entrepreneurs at the time. He was involved in a multitude of businesses but very few people knew who he was. After riding in the London to Brighton bike ride we were invited to this lady’s house and I was keen to meet her husband. Read the rest of this entry »
Progress Update Of Our Blog
On June - 24 - 2009
Having started this blog about one month ago as an entrepreneur blog, we now have about 100 readers per day. As the blog is partly about helping entrepreneurs start an online business we thought it would be cool to give a progress report each month as a kind of diary of what we are doing, what we intend to do and the consequences of our successes and failures. So here is volume one! Read the rest of this entry »
Having a Bad Day?
On June - 23 - 2009
I wasn’t going to write an article today, simply because I am not in the mood and haven’t been all day. I guess this stemmed from the fact that I failed to get the result I wanted on my bike ride today and have been beating myself up since. Read the rest of this entry »
Freelancers For Your Blog?
On June - 22 - 2009
Making money on the net, real money, is like any other business. Essentially what you are doing is buying a product from an employee – his time and/or talent – and selling it to someone else at a profit. Whether you make cars, aeroplanes, tomato soup or hamburgers, your staff build your business from the burger flipper to the franchise manager. Read the rest of this entry »
Make Money With Adwords Part Two
On June - 22 - 2009
In part one of ‘Make Money With Adwords‘ we talked about the simple math behind the idea of PPC (PAY Per Click) advertising in term of how mail shot marketing was done in the ‘old days’. I can testify that there was plenty of money in being able to identify a product that provided a return over the cost of marketing it which could be easily calculated. Read the rest of this entry »
Blog Review – Deepak Arora
On June - 19 - 2009
When I am surfing the web, I love to come across sites that are stuffed to the rafters with good info and I especially like it when I discover them through a bit of social networking. Read the rest of this entry »
Make Money With Adwords?
On June - 19 - 2009
Anyone that has surfed the net has seen the multitude of “get rich now” websites, landing pages, articles, blogs, and the list goes on, in fact in a search in Google for “make money with Adwords” there are over 200,000 pages and I am sure if you substitute ‘make money’ with ‘get rich’ etc there will be millions more. As with all of the get rich schemes on the web, part of the mind pushes this aside as all hype and wishful thinking, but the other part of us says ‘what if?’ Read the rest of this entry »
Auto Bitch Slapped By John Chow
On June - 18 - 2009
When I was in my twenties I was an angry young man. Not to the point of fighting with everyone, I just had a short temper and did not suffer fools – even though I was probably one of them! Marriage to a beautiful and calming woman and a few years added I am now seen to be so laid back I am almost horizontal. Read the rest of this entry »
Make Money Online By Getting Fit First
On June - 16 - 2009
Making money on the Internet is like any other business. Some online marketing gurus will say they make money on the Internet through some kind of ‘automatic program’ like money just magically appears to those who have 5 minutes a day to spare. You and I know both know this is cobblers. Read the rest of this entry »
