Raven Symone is one relentless young entrepreneur. She's been making big business career moves since we first saw her in the 1980's hit family comedy "The Cosby Show". If someone had told me in 1986 that little Olivia from The Cosby Show would command her own entertainment and business empire one day, I probably wouldn't believed it, but to credit, she had a lot of talent and a pair of positive and supportive parents to help guide her career. Raven is best known however for her starring role in the Disney Channel comedy series, That's So Raven, which earned her $35,000 per episode.

This article about article marketing was originally written prior to introduction of Google Panda search engine update in February 2011. As such I've revised it to keep up to date with the latest accepted practices in article marketing and SEO. Article marketing is not what it used to be. Previous to the huge Google Panda search engine update, you could create and submit countless articles to top article directoires, which in turn distributed those articles to countless website owners looking for content. Now everything has changed. In an effort to reduce duplicate content across the web and provide unique search engine results, Google has seriously devalued article marketing and the content farms that hold those copied articles. Using this method of marketing to promote your brand must be done carefully following certain white hat seo guidelines.

 Everybody knows Miley Cyrus as the breakout superstar young actress and musician of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana series, but you may not realize she is one of several very successful celebrity young entrepreneurs. Cyrus  earns millions annually carefully marketing her image, perfume line, earning a percentage of Hannah Montana Disney merchandising, and movie roles.

 Starting a business is easier than many people say. In a previous article I told you 10 reasons to start a business young. Now I'm telling you how. It's never too late to start, but most times it's best to start while you're young. If you would like to test the entrepreneurship path, follow these simple steps to start your own business.

 Supermarkets have free food samples, online music stores give free short audio clips of your favorite hip-hop and pop albums, and fast food restaurants take your personal info in exchange for discounts on meals. I'm introducing young entrepreneurs and business minded students to three cool and effective ways to build their user or customer base.

What do daredevils and thrill seeking entrepreneurs have in common? Most people say they do crazy things that defy common sense. Well that's a matter of opinion from reluctant people standing on the sidelines of success, but the one biggest thing these three people have in common is high tolerance for extreme risk. For them fear of failure exist, but it doesn't stop them from reaching their goal.

 In another article, I provided details about young entrepreneur competitions and where to find them.  I also mentioned why they’re so popular nowadays. Leanna Archer a 13 year old hair products young entrepreneur is one of those reasons. If you think young entrepreneurs get their start in high school or college dorm rooms alone, think again. This young lady started a profitable hustle by creating her own formula for hair care products for courser textured hair. We covered Leanna in a previous post, but wanted to elaborate more on here present status.

 What does $60 billion dollar investor and wall street icon Warren Buffet have in common with hip-hop and pop culture icon and young entrepreneurs Jay-z? They're both ridiculously rich? No not that, everybody already knows that. It's not their age either, Buffet the second richest man in America is a ripe old 80 years and Jigga man is half that age at 40 years old. But when it comes to a drive for business and motivating others to follow their every move, they have that in common big time.

 I know young entrepreneurs have ideas and the desire to start new businesses their peers dare not try, but often they don't have the funds to do so. You'll need to buy business supplies and equipment, plus have money to start a website for marketing and promotion. I've been there, and it's frustrating but there are ways to get that money. Here's one I think is worth looking into.

Visualize two types of young people who take two very different paths to wealth and success, and hypothetically see which one has the best chance to retire before 40.

Beware of  Hackers. Why the blatant warning? I read a news story that I thought deserved some attention. A money making  internet wiz kid named Zach Gosling from Denver, Pennsylvania, built a website at 13 years old  that basically would have given Ebay a run for it's money. The auction based website called Gozbay.com was supported by advertising and sponsorships rather than the ridiculous fees charged by Ebay and big auction sites.

 You try, try, and try again but none of your attempts to build a successful start-up seem to work. So what are you doing wrong? The first thing you SHOULD NOT do is doubt your skills as a young entrepreneur. You've  taken a risk to create a useful product or service that will reward you financially long before you reach retirement age at 65. Most people spend their entire lives avoiding healthy risk because of seven fears, but fear of failure being the main one, so they never see success or wealth at an early age. Also if you are like most young entrepreneurs, you tend to get a lot of negative feedback from people who don't understand what you're doing. Usually your main critics tend to be family members who often say "you need to find a job" or "you need to stay in college and get a degree." While nothing's wrong with finding a job or aiming for a college degree, neither one of those paths generally work for young people with dreams of building their own successful business.

 If you have big dreams, you've probably heard the overused cliche, "build it and they will come". This inspire you to take a leap of faith and spin your first business idea into a start-up reality. Next you tell a few friends, send out email blasts, and tell them to tell a few friends about your big business and website launch. Now you sit patiently watching your computer waiting for the millions to flock to your website, but there's one big problem, only about 15 or 20 people showed up to your site.

How do you teach students to become entrepreneurs, honestly you can't, there's no real proven classroom entrepreneur 101. But you can show them ways to tap into their raw  hustling or natural marketing smarts to build something valuable. Here's an idea, if you are enrolled in a high school for example that teaches marketing, and you need to raise funds for a trip or awards simply start a store.

You hear about people who drop out of high school and went on to become super rich and successful from smart business hustles, but if you're planning on dropping out and don't have a particular financially beneficial reason to do it, you might be setting yourself up for failure. The list of many popular millionaires today who dropped out of high school to make millions is pretty long. But what are the odds you will duplicate the success they had if you dropout.

If writing on your own website is your hobby and passion, that's all good, but if you live in Philly (Philadelphia), you might have to fork over $300 to the local government to keep your online hustle going. Let me make that clearer. If you have a blog or website with paid advertising on it that generates any amount of income, Philadelphia might charge you a  $300 city business license to keep making that pocket change.

Business internships are great to have under your belt especially as a recent business grad desperate for some work experience, but sometimes you get ahead of yourself and accept the first one that comes your way. You spend quality time getting to work on time, impressing the boss with running simple office errands, and photocopying your day away. But is this what you actually dreamed about  doing at your business internship? I doubt it. So how do you survive  the day to day grind of a lackluster, not so challenging, and just plain dull business internship?

I'll never forget my first job  in high school. I was a delivery boy for a new deli in downtown Paterson, New Jersey  in the early 1990's. We didn't have the internet,  social networking, or any of today's cool techie stuff, so finding a summer job was one of the best ways to keep busy. I won't lie, it was my most memorable job because it was my first, but it was also the crappiest  job I ever had. It slowly went from delivering food to doing physically dirty jobs. I was 15 years old, just got my working papers and was really syked about working for some money.

You don't need to go to college to become a successful entrepreneur, there's no arguing that most business millionaire success stories don't come from college graduates, but those who dropped out or never went to college at all. Learning to become an entrepreneur starts with working with or watching others who've built successful products and services. The smallest hustle or hobby backed by a determined person can grow into six figure thousands or multi-million dollar empires right from an internet enabled PC or home garage. These success stories have become very common in the Millenium Generation, those born in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

Sometimes you have a great money making idea while in college, but not quite sure which direction to take it. Sometimes you have a college friend or roommate who share your passion for that idea, and sometimes you think partnering with that person is a great business move. After all, you trust this person, they're a friend so you shake hands and agree to get your hustle going.