Initially launched in 2010, Pinterest has quickly jumped from being the secret of a cool few to one of the lead sources of head scratching from men everywhere. While some might argue that social bookmarking could replace the actual act of consumerism itself, there is no doubt that sites like Pinterest can also serve to propel product sales with their viral outreach.
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It’s a new year and for those entrepreneurial folk, an opportunity to start a new business. However, make sure to steer clear of these three business models which clearly showed their fallibility in the previous year. Read more
This article is by Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO of Card Hub, a leading marketplace for comparing business credit cards and consumer credit cards. Read more
This is a guest post from Natasha Murashev, a former FBI agent turned Googler who is now learning Ruby on Rails and working on her own startup. Read more
At FeeFighters, we’re constantly on conference calls with other companies. We’re a scrappy startup, so we use free services when we can. I’ve been using a free conference call line from freeeconferencecall.com for the past year, and wondering – how is it free? Read more
Your coworker is late. You’re angry. “He’s always late!” you say to yourself. Instead of thinking of the myriad of external sources that could potentially explain his tardiness, you default to the fact that he is always late. Does this sound familiar? Read more
If you own a retail store and haven’t yet tried location based marketing, you might want to put it on your radar. Jonathan Bellinger, the digital strategy director of the marketing communications firm, JWT New York, told Entrepreneur in an interview last week that, although there is currently a gap between large and small business as far as success, small business location based marketing can take off if small business owners “get more create and offer addition value.” Read more
Late last year, we decided it was time to find ourselves a real office. This was a big step in the annals of FeeFighters, because we’d never had our own office…we just shared coworking space or worked from home. So, Sheel and I started our Epic Office Search. Here’s what I learned: Read more
The way you set your prices can play a large role in determining the success of your business. Charge too much and you’ll be stuck with a large inventory and no customers, and charge too little and you’ll have tremendous sales—but no cash flow. If you’re experiencing one of the two, here are three signs that you might need to rethink your pricing structure. Read more
First it killed the radio in 80s and now it’s changing the face of online marketing. Video is the way of the future for marketing your brand online and if you still haven’t taken the plunge, it’s about time you do. Video will helps build an audience, extend your reach, and even increase conversion rates for your brand. Here’s five steps to making online video work for your brand. Read more
In my last post I talked about why you should leave your corporate job and join a startup. In this post I want to talk about how you can get a job at an awesome startup like FeeFighters.
Outright, online accounting software for small businesses, seeks to streamline business accounting. How are they different from other business accounting sites? Let’s take a look.
Lots of times FeeFighters users ask us what a personal guarantee is and when/why they have to sign on. This week’s kick addresses that issue as Sean talks the basics on personal guarantees.
FeeFighters recently spoke at a utility conference about how its participants can save money on credit card processing. After analyzing one of the participants’ credit card processing statements, we realized they could save 25% or about $30,000 annually on their credit card processing fees.
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour. My task: inspire students to consider becoming entrepreneurs. One of my pieces of advice was to expand professional social networks by joining LinkedIn.
We were having lunch with our friends Sunir and Mike from Freshbooks, and Sunir mentioned the event SOBCon. I had no idea wtf he was talking about, but he then explained that SOB stands for Successful Online Business.
By the time we talk to business owners, many have been burned by a credit card processor. They reach out because they have been lied to, promised lower rates, and altogether feel cheated.
Many business owners in these uncertain times are looking for a way to turn around their flailing businesses.
We had a great time submitting, organizing, and speaking on our panel on financial institutions and startups. Here are some photos from the event and a great summary from moderator Felix Salmon:
I was reading the New York Times, learning from Thomas Friedman about the myriad of Islamic uprisings that are about to occur and I was presented with the attached ad.
