You are now being logged in using your Facebook credentials
 
 
Login and Logout Here



Beware of Hackers Who Want to Destroy Your Online Startup Business

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline

computer hackers break into private computers and websites to steal or destroy business and personal information.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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

Four Reasons You're Still Struggling as a Young Entrepreneur

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline

Struggling entrepreneurs need a business plan of action 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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

Why You Should Use Social Media and SEO to Get Your Startup Noticed

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline

Useful social media marketing include viral videos, social networks and community blogs 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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

Let High School Students Start a School Store to Promote Entrepreneurship

Posted by Priya Nembhard
Priya Nembhard
My business goal is to offer simple to understand business advice and develop us
User is currently offline

Exposing students to marketing and selling school products is a great way to promote young entrepreneurship in high school.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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

Don't Drop Out of School Unless You Have a Million Dollar Plan Like These Famous Dropouts

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline

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.

 

...
Jay-z Founder of Rocafella Records and Co-Owner of New Jersey Nets
Tags: Untagged

Philly Bloggers Will Have to Pay 300 Dollars if the Blogs Run Pay-Per-Click Ads

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline

Blogging in Philadelphia with paid ads is considered a business now, so bloggers have to pay up for a business licenseIf 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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

Tips For Surviving a Dull Business Internship

Posted by Priya Nembhard
Priya Nembhard
My business goal is to offer simple to understand business advice and develop us
User is currently offline

Try to stay as busy as possible with job related activities to offset boredom and take frequent breaks.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?

 

...
Tags: Untagged

How to Benefit From a Good or Bad Business Work Experience

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline


You can make good or bad jobs work to your benefit by being able to pinpoint the signs of a bad company to avoid them, and signs of a good company to work with them.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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

College Can't Teach Successful Entrepreneurship But it Has Other Benefits

Posted by Wade Nembhard
Wade Nembhard
Co-Founder of Erookie and startup business expert. I'm a work from home dad in M
User is currently offline

Entrepreneurship versus college. Entrepreneurs learn how to build a successful business outside of college.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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged

What to do When Your College Friend Steals Your Business Idea to Make Money

Posted by Priya Nembhard
Priya Nembhard
My business goal is to offer simple to understand business advice and develop us
User is currently offline

Idea theft happens between many startup business partners, in addition to legal action you have a backup ideas.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.

 

...
Tags: Untagged