Posts tagged with 'Entrepreneur'
In the world of business, image counts for a lot. It may not be everything, but sometimes it's pretty darn close.
Sure, you always have to deliver, but sometimes getting a new client or closing a big deal is as dependent upon how you look to the client as it is upon how qualified you are.
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by Patrick Oak
03 September 2008 08:45am
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Despite the success and continued growth of e-commerce, there are still plenty of retailers who have yet to take the plunge and sell their products or services online.
This includes well known high street companies like Clarks and H&M, as well as plenty of smaller retailers.
E-consultancy has put together a Beginner's Guide to E-commerce (free to download once you create a user account) that can to be used as a starting point for retailers who want to learn more. There are some very good reasons to sell online...
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by Graham Charlton
21 August 2008 17:00pm
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Steve Rubel, a senior vice president at Edelman Digital, essentially asked in a recent blog post if PR is becoming obsolete.
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by Drama 2.0
21 August 2008 08:45am
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I discussed
the economics of blogging recently,
sparking
a bit of debate.
And it seems for good reason. The evolution of the blogosphere as a business hasn't been easy for many of its participants.
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by Drama 2.0
19 August 2008 11:28am
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Last week, I came across an interesting blog post.
Giacomo Guilizzoni, who was formerly a senior engineering lead at Adobe, recently launched a software company called Balsamiq which is focused on developing plug-ins for existing "Web Office" platforms.
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by Drama 2.0
18 August 2008 09:31am
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Everybody's working for the weekend but before you leave work for the weekend, here's a wrap-up of the news that caught my eye this week.
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by Drama 2.0
08 August 2008 09:29am
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I'm currently consulting with an individual who is starting a subscription-based online business, focused on providing high-value content in a lucrative niche.
One of the biggest questions he had was: "How do I price my subscriptions?"
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by Patrick Oak
08 August 2008 08:50am
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This week's news was quite a hodgepodge so without delay, let's end the week with a diverse version of Drama 2.0's The Web Week in Review.
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by Drama 2.0
01 August 2008 08:49am
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This week's episode of Dragons' Den featured Gloucestershire jeweller Clive Billing asking for a £255,000 investment in his website diamondgeezer.com.
Billing received an offer from three of the Dragons (the highest ever in the programme's history) but backed away due to the 40% equity the VCs were demanding. See him here via the iPlayer.
Have the Dragons missed out on a golden opportunity? Or has Billing? We have taken a look at the site to find out...
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by Graham Charlton
31 July 2008 09:15am
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In February, online video startup Revver, which had raised just under $13m in venture capital funding,
was sold
for an amount reportedly in the "low single digit millions".
It had previously been shopping itself for a rumored $300,000 to $500,000.
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by Drama 2.0
29 July 2008 08:45am
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