[ad_1] In this age of instant gratification, consumers want their problems dealt with immediately — not five minutes from now. By implementing live chat on your website, you can keep your customers active and engaged. Do you use chat as a bonus feature on your site? Live chat shouldn’t be …

[ad_1] Businesses of all sizes are under constant pressure to keep pace with innovation — and ideally, to stay ahead of its trajectory. But many business owners struggle to understand their own pain points and manage operational issues. This negatively affects both current and future business growth. A recent survey conducted …

[ad_1] I’ve bootstrapped businesses from scratch with personal capital and I’ve also raised millions from a PowerPoint presentation and then launched a business (which, hint, can be a terrible way to do it — but that’s a different story for another time). Related: 5 Components of Bootstrapping a Business Not all …

[ad_1] If you’re in debt, Entrepreneur Network partner Mark J. Kohler wants to help you get out of it. In this video, he shares six simple steps you can start following today to get out of your bad debt and into good debt — out of credit card debt and …

[ad_1] Crowdfunding is a multibillion dollar worldwide industry that continues to disrupt the traditional world of corporate finance, as well as change the way products go to market. Businesses new and old, small and large, are now incorporating both rewards crowdfunding and equity crowdfunding. The capital raising playbooks have changed. …

[ad_1] How many times have you been told that saving money is a good thing? Financial specialists recommend that you save a bit of money every month, but that’s easier said than done. After all, it’s not uncommon for people to live paycheck to paycheck. However, if you want to start …

[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Due Today, 95 percent of Americans own a cellphone and 77 percent of those are smartphones. Mobile phone users will likely climb to almost five billion by 2020. With these numbers it’s easy to understand why there was a lot of hype surrounding the future of mobile payments. The …

[ad_1] If you have an entrepreneurial mindset and want to explore a new business venture, keep the concept of longevity in mind. Invest your time, energy and resources into a business that you can sustain for at least five years. Not surprisingly, 25 percent of startups fail within the first …

[ad_1] In 1994, the internet went mainstream. This is the year the first AOL discs came out to let people “dial up” to the internet. They were everywhere. You could get them at the grocery store, and they came in the mail. People made art out of these shiny discs. …

[ad_1] In America, millennial entrepreneurship is down. Despite the apparent strength of the startup and technology sector, millennials are projected to be the least entrepreneurial generation: Entrepreneurship rates for people under 30 have fallen by 65 percent since the 1980s. Plenty of ink has been spilled on the root causes …