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In the world of Netonomics, getting to know your customers can be critical to survival or failure. Building relationships online can be derived from traditional retail marketing strategies.

Your site can build a profile of each customer via questionnaires or tracking their clickstreams. The information is stored in a database and is used to identify patterns of behavior that are transformed into assumptions or rules, used to predict the shopper’s future likes and dislikes. This…

Most businesses need financing. Unless you won the lottery or inherited a fortune most people start a business with either their own funds or a combination of their funds and financing. Even an established business needs financing at one time or another.

Cash flow is different than profits and profits do not guarantee money in the bank. Entrepreneurs need financing for inventory, payroll, expansion, develop and market new products, to enter new markets, marketing, or moving to a new…

If you search for the topic “items to consider when starting a business”, Google will return 19 million choices to click on. Some have sites 50 items listed; some have 5. This does not count the numerous ads for How to Start a Business, Why Start a Business, etc. I think every entrepreneur has advice for the business start up, and your humble author is included in the group!

Let’s assume you have gotten the entrepreneurial spirit. You know there will probably be no vacations or sick…

CD Salmons of Brand Personalization hosts a Q&A show Monday to Friday at 4:00pst/7:00est.

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When looking around for a merchant account service, the lure of low merchant account rates can be a great temptation. But before signing a contract for any service, do your homework. The promise of such low merchant account rates may have strings attached. There are other methods of charging you on the account you haven't anticipated. Low rate promises can be bait to lure you into a situation that can cause other problems -- such as having them nickel and dime you to death on other…

In my continuance of analyzing different modular structures of a business model, another lego-like vector popped up on my radar screen to further analyze: gamification. Gamification is nothing new but some of the high tech companies have taken it to another level. From my perspective, we are still in its infancy of applying gamification to the…

Photos by Damir Perge, all rights reserved, 2012 (Note: photos taken…

As I am analyzing various business models for my book Strategydex |: The Anatomy of a Business Model, I have become obsessed with figuring out various ways any business model generates revenues. From a visualization perspective, I am working on setting up the components of a business model using a Lego-like modeling approach to make it easier…

Imagine being hounded by creditors for late payments on your student loan, mortgage, or your brand new car. Imagine standing 300 feet above ground and staring down to what seems like an endless fall. Imagine standing in front of a large crowd of 3000 people with all eyes on you, waiting for you to speak a word. Do you cower and run away, or do you face it and fight through your fears.

Fear can either immobilize or compel you to act. Thus, fear will either add or subtract to your ability…

I’ve been following some successful entrepreneurs for a while now and they all have several things in common. But the one thing I’ll be focusing on in this post is that entrepreneurs, the ones that are influential business leaders, the ones that are making the money, is that they read daily.

Reading may seem like a small thing, but consider it like a drop of water entering a glass cup every second. Eventually the glass will become full and will start to overflow. So if you are the…

Sell! Sell! Sell! This is the mantra of every business. And it is the gospel of any company that makes money solely through e-commerce. Effective website design encourages your visitors to take the next step. It combines good layout with page copy that induces customers to buy products or take some kind of action.

Here are some “Do’s” of E-Commerce:

• Do include a link to the order page on every other page of your site.
• Do have the products on display in the right…

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What is the optimum number of founders for a startup? Based on my empirical experience in investing into more than 25 companies, the magical number is three. Startups are hard enough as it is -- you need to have enough founders on the team to get the company off the launching pad. But too many cooks in…

by damir perge | founder of entrepreneurdex

The manufacturing process of improving your mind belongs to those who know Taiichi. No, this is

not some martial-arts, kicking-ass kind of mind training. It's even better. The originator of the…

by Christopher Alan Sweeney, tradingstocksbycas.com

by Christopher Alan Sweeney, tradingstocksbycas.com

by damir perge | founder of entrepreneurdex

What can an entrepreneur, investor or employee learn from an eight and a five-year-old girl? More than you can imagine. If we were only as funthusiastic as Sophia Grace and her cousin…