E News - February, 2009
February Feature: Extreme Entrepreneur Tour
VenturePORT.org is again sponsoring the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour for Spring 2009! Three months, Fifteen + events, sharing the entrepreneurial mindset with hundreds of students, and driving thousands of miles cross country on the Extreme Tour bus!
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Resources: Technology Tools
The proliferation of low-cost technology has effectively leveled the playing field in many industries. You will not need much money to look like a Fortune 500 player, so make sure you don't cut corners in a way that will tip off your small size to people who don't know you.
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Networking: Elizabeth Saunders - Real Life E!
Real Life E™ is a speaking, training, and coaching enterprise that equips entrepreneurs and women in business with the time management skills they need to create a brilliant life in a burnt-out world. Real Life E™ focuses on effective life strategies so you can achieve more and work less.
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Marketplace: Entrepreneur Zone
The VenturePORT.org Entrepreneur Zone (eZone) is a private sector, brick and mortar business accelerator that connects entrepreneurs with each other and valuable resources to help them achieve greater success in business.
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Forum: Secret Weapon From Adweek
We all know brand strategy is extremely important. Now, more than ever, entrepreneurs should be reviewing their brand strategies and adapting them to the current economic climate. A critical strategy that is often overlooked (and especially vulnerable) during an economic downturn -your employees and their faith in your brand.
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Blogs: Beating Business Burnout
According to John Ingrasano at Freestyle Entrepreneur, burnout and boredom are the top reasons why small business owners either sell or shut their doors. These two factors account for 50% of all businesses being sold.
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Video: Setting Goals With Ryan Allis
At the age of 24, Ryan Allis is an entrepreneur, author, and CEO of iContact - a leading provider of email marketing tools with over $15 million in sales. View an excerpt from the film Work Your Way Up where Ryan talks about the immense impact the simple act of writing down your goals has.
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Events: National Entrepreneurship Week!
Experts agree that small business owners and entrepreneurs are the key to lifting our nation out of the current economic crisis. Detroit and Wall Street certainly can't help...but empowering individuals through entrepreneurship can. Entrepreneurial skills help expand vision, creativity, and problem solving.
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