[ad_1] In this video, Entrepreneur Network partners Chris Haddon and Jason Balin answer questions about creating connections and using your community to build your business. That sense of community can come in all sorts of different forms. Whether you’re making contacts with your neighbors or with like-minded people in your …

[ad_1] For many of the world’s most successful executives, few things are scarier than being asked to spend a couple of minutes on the phone with a journalist. Those who have been in the unfortunate position of having their words misconstrued know that the stakes are incredibly high these days. …

[ad_1] Social selling is the art of using social networks to find, connect with, understand and nurture sales prospects. According to HubSpot, “The use of social media in sales allows salespeople to delight their prospects rather than interrupt their daily lives with cold calls and hard sells, eventually converting them into loyal …

[ad_1] Having trouble getting your small business site to rank in the search engines? Not even sure where to start? This post will provide you with 9 simple hacks to ensure your site is properly optimized and starts ranking as soon as possible. These hacks have helped me to go from a …

[ad_1] Entrepreneurs starting a business face many decisions about how to best set up and operationalize their company, including whether to register a business; where to set up space; and how to manage finances. For some, especially those operating as sole proprietors, it may seem easiest to use a checking …

[ad_1] America is consistently ranked as one of the top entrepreneurial countries in the world, and the average person on the street probably believes that a good company can always find financing to grow and expand. We know that more than 90 percent of small business owners still believe that banks …

[ad_1] In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Brittney Castro explains three good ways you can spend the money you get from your tax refund. The first way is to fund an IRA, so you can invest your money into retirement. To maximize the investment, Castro stresses the importance of meeting …

[ad_1] No sales, no business! It’s as simple as that, and even though we know that rule, many of us just find it too difficult to pick up the phone and dial.  Why? because nobody really likes rejection, and certainly not constant, repeated rejection. Which is what can happen on a bad sales …

[ad_1] The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Your pitch to investors is the single thing that could either get your business off the ground or plunge your idea into eternal oblivion. The rule of thumb for …

[ad_1] This story appears in the May 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Bianca Bahri grew up in the franchising world. Her parents owned multiple H&R Block units, and her family’s community — Catholic Iraqi immigrants in the Detroit area — was full of entrepreneurs who had used franchising as …